Into every life, a little rain must fall. And sometimes the roof is a little leakier in MMA.
Like a major league pitcher with a million dollar fastball, when a fighter's skills go, they go. Even when natural gifts are still fully in place, a bad night can easily turn into a bad year with the right (or wrong, I suppose) matchmaking.
It can be hard to deal with for fans, not to mention the fighters themselves. But that's the business, and everyone understands the risks, even if that doesn't make them easier to swallow once they come home to roost.
OK, enough idiom mixing. These are the active UFC fighters who have currently fallen on hard times. Since falls are worse when they occur from higher heights, most of these fighters are ex-champs or contenders. They are ranked mainly on performances inside the cage, as well as their career pinnacles compared with their current state of affairs.
Finally, this isn't a list of fighters with the longest losing streaks. These are fighters whose careers have taken a fairly sharp turn for the worse in the relatively recent past.
