On Saturday, we all bore witness to the collapse of one of the sport’s icons. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua was forced to tap to strikes in the second round of his UFC 255 main card fight against Paul Craig.
That right there was hard to watch. Granted he was injured mid-bout, but seeing a fighter who once brought an unmatched level of intensity into the ring submit to punches like that was both unreal and disappointing.
So in the attempt to wash off the bad taste it left in our mouths, I thought it’d be fitting to look back on an era of Shogun’s career when his star shone the brightest.