INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Payton Talbott might have been thinking about getting into the top five some day, but it probably wasn’t this one.
Talbott (9-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) on Saturday suffered a top-five biggest upset loss in UFC history when he was dominated by Raoni Barcelos (19-5 MMA, 8-4 UFC) for a unanimous decision to close out the preliminary card at UFC 311 at Intuit Dome.
Talbott was unbeaten coming into the bantamweight bout and was a betting favorite of around -1150 in the fight. The upsets above him in the pecking order: Holly Holm over Ronda Rousey (-1600), Shana Dobson over Mariya Agapova (-1400) and Matt Serra over Georges St-Pierre (-1200).