Best MMA fight in 09

Turbo_diesel

I know there are still a few events left before the end of the year but just getting this started a bit early. In my view the Diego Sanchez V Clay Guida fight will take some beating. Any other candidates?

xX Batman Xx

Diego Sanchez V Clay Guida

By a mile.

chopperbyrne

Agree with you both.

Undoubtedly the fight of the year.

How Clay Guida survived the whole fight I'll never know.

Mellor

Dana White rated this is fight of the year so far just before 100, I can't see how it was beaten since then.

Then again, BJ-Diego and KenFlo-Clay are still to come, the only fights than could steal it imo

rovert

Just for a dissenting opinion Faber Brown WEC 41.

If anyone had any real balls they would create a Best Fight of the Decade thread. :eek:

Pride Fighter

Stefan Struve against some Bosnian lad was awesome. Siver versus Mohr was awesome. Those are the best fights I have seen. Live fights are so much better than fights on TV.

timmy69

Fedor VS Rogers

Professey Chin

Guida va Sanchez
Nog vs Couture
Brown vs Faber

Best 3 I can think of right now

rovert

timmy69 wrote: »

Fedor VS Rogers

Havent rewatched it. Does it hold up?

Professey Chin

rovert wrote: »

Havent rewatched it. Does it hold up?

Pretty average fight on rewatch.Nowhere near FOTY contender

baaaa

Couture Vs Nog for me.
Maybe there was a better fight or 2 but the circumstances make it my favorite,namely a 46 yr old wrestler being able to withstand a 32 year old Nog(coming off a defeat if you please).

juanjo

cerrone vs henderson.

chordtype

^^^^^I'll second that^^^^^

Donald Cerrone vs. Ben Henderson from WEC 43 was my pick and I'm guessing if it had of been on a UFC show would do a whole lot better than it probably will.

Guida V Sanchez...11/10

Tyson Griffin vs. Rafael dos Anjos 10/10

Miguel Torres vs. Takeya Mizugaki 9/10

cardio,shoot me

going with nog and randy myself, really enjoyed that fight.

Karmafaerie

Miguel Torres vs Takeya Mizugaki

Best fight for me.

maharg92

for me its between Miguel Torre vs Takeya Mizugaki, Scott Smith vs. Benji Radach and Martin Kampmann vs Carlos Condit

JokerD

One that springs to mind that hasn't been mentioned yet is Nate Quarry v Tim Credeur

t-ha

Another vote for Nog v Couture

ginoginelli

1 fedor v rogers

2 randy v nog

3 sanchez v guida

4 cerrone v henderson

5 torres v mizugaki

Niall0

I enoyed watching belfort v franklin.

callaway92

Nate Quarry vs Tim Credeur = Runner Up

Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida = FOTY

Mellor

The Clay Guida/Sanchez fight was responsible for 3 of my mates getting into MMA. They were over at mine having a few bottles and were hooked on it

Jason Mc

Probably one of the best action packed fights was Guida/Sanchez


But the ones I enjoyed watching most were

Fedor vs Rodgers
Brock Vs Mir
Shogun Vs Machida

DrPhilG

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Stefan Struve against some Bosnian lad was awesome. Siver versus Mohr was awesome. Those are the best fights I have seen. Live fights are so much better than fights on TV.

I saw those 2 live aswell. Struve vs Stonjic was the one you're on about. Not taht great a fight technically, but the finish had the crowd on their feet because of the blood pumping out of Struve and everyone was willing him on to get the finish.

For me, haven't seen the 2 WEC fights mentioned as yet, Guida vs Sanchez was FOTY for me by a long way. I tended to score it in Guida's favour too, but admittedly I'm biased, Guida is a legend IMO.

Just bought his Silver Star walk out t-shirt for Christmas!

Lord Muck

Shanchez v Guida, fantastic fight , i still laugh when i think of a bloodied up Guida after the fight bouncing up and down being interviewed by Rogan.

I liked the Shogun Machida fight too , in terms of two differnet styles being pitted against one another. Great fight , terrible result.

syncsyncboot

I liked Tokoro vs. Takaya in Dream in October....

but favs were:

Guida vs. Sanchez was amazing. Rank 1

GSP vs. Alves quality RANK 2

Henderson vs. Bisping RANK 3... just for the KO

rovert

For what it is worth FightersOnly's shortlist:

Mike Thomas Brown vs. Urijah Faber, WEC 41


Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva, UFC 99


Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, UFC 100


Antonio Nogueira vs. Randy Couture, UFC 102


Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida, TUF 9 finale

Full list of all their awards here:
http://www.onlineawards.co.uk/fightersonly/Finalists.asp

juanjo

That list is up to the end of august. Cerrone henderson was on october, wec43. should be there on top of that list!

Chewabacca

I'll be controversial and pick a UFC undercard fight.

I thought that Palhares vs. Linhares was an epic fight. Such a high level of grappling and unlike many fights between excellent grapplers they didn't try to shut each other down and hunted for submissions every second.

Lindland vs. Jacare will either be the best or worst fight of the year and Smith vs. Le will be a war.

Professey Chin

Thomson vs. Melendez from tonights Strikeforce

Havnt seen it yet then go watch now!!
Ill wait here

Ramunas

Cung Le vs Scott Smith - great fight

Fedor vs Rogers

Bj Penn vs Sanchez

roo1981

For me its a toss up between-

Thomson vs. Melendez
Sanchez vs Guida

Im pushing more towards Thomson vs Melendez though, mainly cause it was over 5 rounds...

ginoginelli

Im torn between Fedor/Rogers and Thompson/Melendez.

I like them both for different reasons. Cant really decide.

unknown13

Wow, no one has said Kampmann / Condit yet, That is my pick

ginoginelli

Condit/kampann was a great fight for 2 rounds, the third round was pretty lame.

Still a great fight though, and worthy of a top 10 place.

DAGEROUSDAVE

I liked Sherk vs Edgar @ UFC98

I also liked Nick Diaz vs Frank Shamrock @ Strikeforce

There are loads more but thats all i can remember now... :rolleyes:

callaway92

DAGEROUSDAVE wrote: »

I liked Sherk vs Edgar @ UFC98

I also liked Nick Diaz vs Frank Shamrock @ Strikeforce

There are loads more but thats all i can remember now... :rolleyes:

horribly boring fight I thought