The 10 most overrated fighters in UFC history

#5 Roger Huerta

Roger Huerta received a huge promotional push from the UFC

Don’t get me wrong – back in 2006/7/8 Roger Huerta was one of my favourite fighters in the UFC, period.

He simply couldn’t put on a dull fight and his December 2007 match with Clay Guida remains one of the best in promotional history.

But despite being massively exciting, ‘El Matador’ was largely unproven at the top level and probably didn’t deserve the monstrous push he was given by the UFC.

Huerta burst onto the scene in 2006 by winning an exciting brawl with Jason Dent, and the UFC immediately latched onto him as a possible star for the Hispanic market.

And so he was pushed hugely and reeled off a further five wins, although with the exception of Guida, none of his opponents were really UFC-level – three of them were debutants in fact.

And yet the UFC portrayed Huerta as the top contender to watch at 155lbs – even using a shot of him on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.

The bubble burst when Huerta was outpointed by Kenny Florian pretty handily, but at that stage, his relationship with the UFC had gone sour anyway – he felt he was worth far more money than the promotion would pay him.

Eventually, Huerta sat out a year, was beaten by Gray Maynard and then went on to a dreadful run in Bellator. It was a case of too much, too soon in terms of promotional push, but if he’d have been handled better by the UFC – and built slowly rather than pushed as a contender from the off – he could’ve been something special.