10 UFC Prodigies Who Didn't Live Up To The Billing
3. Jason “Mayhem” Miller
By all accounts, Jason 'Mayhem' Miller should have ripped up UFC's Welterweight division as soon as he set foot into the promotion. Amassing a stellar 16-3 record before being signed by Dana White, Miller had done all of that by the age of 23. The sky would be the limit for this young prodigy.
Well...
It's unfair to judge the man on his inaugural defeat to one of the legitimate G.O.A.T's in Georges St-Pierre at UFC 52, but after his time away from the company - beating Robbie Lawler and Mark Moreno in the interim - you expected him to come back swinging.
He didn't.
After losing in The Ultimate Fighter finale to Michael Bisping, Miller would go on to lose again in his make or break UFC fight vs. C.B. Dollaway at UFC 146.
That meant that after a career that earned him twenty eight victories in MMA, his record in the world's biggest fighting promotion sat at 0-3.
He would go on to host the MTV TV show, Bully Beatdown, for three years from 2009, but he could never fully realise his ambition of becoming the best Middle/Welterweight in the world.