5 more fighters who were one and done in the UFC

#2 Kit Cope

Kit Cope's fearsome reputation as a striker didn't help him in the UFC

A noted boxer and kickboxer, Kit Cope entered into the conscience of fight fans when he was featured in an episode of MTV’s True Life in 2004, entitled ‘I’m a Muay Thai Fighter’. The show followed ‘The Doctor’ as he trained for a bare-knuckle lethwei fight in Thailand that saw him knock out Burmese fighter Mojo Mawadee.

Evidently, the UFC were sold by the show and signed Cope up for a fight with rising star Kenny Florian at the Ultimate Fighter II Finale card in November 2005. Unfortunately, Cope’s MMA skills lagged far behind his skills in striking, and prior to the fight with ‘Ken-Flo’, his MMA record stood at just 2-2. Sure enough, Florian made no attempt at standing with the kickboxer, took him down immediately and after Cope escaped a nasty armbar attempt in the first round, he quickly succumbed to a second-round rear naked choke.

That was the only time we’d see ‘The Doctor’ in the Octagon. Despite not fighting for well over a year after the Florian loss, Cope was signed by the WEC in 2007 and given a shot at that promotion’s Lightweight title – only to be submitted by champ Rob McCullough. Following the fight, he tested positive for anabolic steroids and was subsequently cut loose.

In the years that have followed, Cope has gone 4-3 in MMA – with all of his losses coming by submission – and hasn’t fought since 2012, the same year that saw him controversially threaten to leak a sex tape of fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano.