5 one-hit wonders in the UFC

#4 Elvis Sinosic

If we’re going by reputations for niceness in MMA, ‘The King of Rock n’ Rumble’ Elvis Sinosic would probably be unbeaten – the UFC’s first Australian fighter is universally loved by fans and fellow fighters alike and generally comes off as someone who you’d love to have a drink and shoot the breeze with. His UFC record of 1-6, however, is less than impressive by anyone’s standards.

Something endeared him to UFC brass though and meant they brought him back so many times, and it wasn’t just his likeable personality. Back in 2001 – the infant days of the Zuffa-run UFC – Sinosic was brought in to fight Jeremy Horn, at the time a top contender in the 205lbs division, after taking former champ Frank Shamrock to a close decision in a K-1 bout. Horn was expected to win and go on to face then-champion Tito Ortiz in a title fight.

Instead, Sinosic surprised the accomplished grappler Horn with a triangle/armbar combination and submitted him in the first round. In turn, he was given the title shot against Ortiz...which didn’t work out so well as Tito elbowed his head into pieces within four minutes. And Sinosic’s following UFC fights went badly too – losses to Evan Tanner, Babalu Sobral, Forrest Griffin, Alessio Sakara and Michael Bisping left him with one of the worst records in modern UFC history.

In Elvis’s defence, his opposition was always incredibly tough and he usually put up a decent fight before losing, but his huge win over Horn was always going to be tricky to follow up and the fact that unfortunately, he simply couldn’t do it, makes him one of the all-time great UFC one-hit wonders.