2017 was not kind to Gabi Garcia. The former BJJ champion faced a comically undersized Megumi Yabushita in a shootboxing match that ended in a no contest due to a soccer kick. Then later that month, her MMA bout against Russian fighter Oksana Gagloeva ended with another no contest due to an eyepoke in the opening minute of the fight.
To make things worse, her December fight against 53-year-old Shinobu Kandori was cancelled after Garcia somehow failed to make weight by over 25 pounds. That episode was then followed by one of the most bizarre ceremonial self-flagellations in the history of the sport.