top 5 fights.

since its the weekend and quite on here i want to know what people have as their personal top 5 fights. can be either for entertainment value or just because you like a certain fighter. mine are as follows.

liddell vs silva

griffen vs bonnar tuf 1

randy vs sylvia

fedor vs brett rogers

phil baroni vs frank shamrock.

Fedor vs Nog I
Santiago vs Misaki II
Hunt vs Wanderlei
Nog vs Sapp
Hughes vs Trigg II

Fedor Emelianenko vs Cro Cop - Pride Final Conflict 2005
Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar - TUF1
Wanderlei Silva vs Chuck Liddell - UFC79
Melvin Manhoef vs Evangelista Cyborg Santos - Cage Rage 15
Fedor Emelianenko vs Kevin Randleman - PRIDE Critical Countdown 2004

Fedor vs;

- Rogers

- Arlovski

- CroCop

- Herring

- Schilt

Schilt fight was just lnp though o_O

lay and pray?? are you being serious?? Fedor unleashed some immense GnP in that fight!

i am obviously going to miss several of my favourites off because i havent sorted them in my head yet, but:

Takanori Gomi vs Tatsuya Kawajiri (PRIDE Bushido 9)
Fedor Emelianenko vs Mirko Crocop (PRIDE Final Conflict 2005)
Bob Sapp vs Minotauro Nogueira (PRIDE Shockwave/K1 Dynamite!! 2002)
Eddie Alvarez vs Tatsuya Kawajiri (DREAM.5)
Kazushi Sakuraba vs Renzo Gracie (PRIDE 10)

gotta love Crusher, vs Alvarez, vs Gomi and vs Masato he goes down swinging!!

Anfields5thKing wrote:lay and pray?? are you being serious?? Fedor unleashed some immense GnP in that fight!

Lnp was a bit of an exaggeration, but Fedor never landed anything 'immense'. He mounted him a lot, went for an armbar once or twice and landed a lot of pitter patter shots. His worst post-RINGS fight imo.

just been looking at the semmy v fedor and it amazes me that fedor fights much bigger opposition and wins. sylvia, zuluzinho, choi, semmy, rogers. i can see why he is in most peoples top five.

IamFluffykins wrote:

Anfields5thKing wrote:lay and pray?? are you being serious?? Fedor unleashed some immense GnP in that fight!

Lnp was a bit of an exaggeration, but Fedor never landed anything 'immense'. He mounted him a lot, went for an armbar once or twice and landed a lot of pitter patter shots. His worst post-RINGS fight imo.

He beat the shit out of him! Was the first showing of Fedor's GnP. He was fighting in Pride for the first time, against an elite level striker who was a foot taller and about 60lbs heavier! Great performance.

It's very hard to narrow it down to just 5. Im going to try and avoid what everyone else has said.

Lil Nog vs Shogun (PRIDE Critical Countdown 2005)
GSP vs Matt Hughes II (UFC 65: Bad Intentions)
Gilbert Melendez vs Josh Thompson II (Strikeforce: Evolution)
Ricardo Arona vs Kaushi Sakuraba (PRIDE Critical Countdown 2005)
Big Nog vs Cro Cop (Pride Final Conflict 2003)

Ok, here goes, although I have changed my mind about thirty times in the last couple of hours.

In no particular order -

Josh Barnett vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
PRIDE Final Conflict 2006

Matt Hughes vs Frank Trigg II
UFC 52

Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn
UFC 4

Matt Hughes vs BJ Penn II
UFC 63

Fedor vs Kevin Randlemann
PRIDE critical countdown 2004


There are so many others.

Once Mohawked Pete wrote:Ok, here goes, although I have changed my mind about thirty times in the last couple of hours.

In no particular order -

Josh Barnett vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
PRIDE Final Conflict 2006

Matt Hughes vs Frank Trigg II
UFC 52

Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn
UFC 4

Matt Hughes vs BJ Penn II
UFC 63

Fedor vs Kevin Randlemann
PRIDE critical countdown 2004


There are so many others.

is Royce/Severn on there because of the significance or because it was a great fight?>..because it wasn't

manschesthair_utd wrote:

Once Mohawked Pete wrote:Ok, here goes, although I have changed my mind about thirty times in the last couple of hours.

In no particular order -

Josh Barnett vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
PRIDE Final Conflict 2006

Matt Hughes vs Frank Trigg II
UFC 52

Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn
UFC 4

Matt Hughes vs BJ Penn II
UFC 63

Fedor vs Kevin Randlemann
PRIDE critical countdown 2004


There are so many others.

is Royce/Severn on there because of the significance or because it was a great fight?>..because it wasn't

Significance over quality, in this respect anyway. As I've said though, there are so many fights that could have been put on here, it was really hard to come up with just 5.

^^^^^ one of my personal favourites.

Rampage vs Griffin - sat there for 25mins waiting for rampage to take griffins head off! So pleased I was wrong

Lesnar vs Mir 2 - can't stand Mir and I'm in the minority that cheers for Lesnar

Chuck vs silva - say no more

Sanchez vs Guida - Best 1st round I've seen in the ufc for a long time!

Hughes vs Carlos Newton 1 - got me into mma

Special mention to couture vs toney and alex Reid vs Watson. Both were epic fights and defined the world of mma

I'm hoping you're taking the piss with the last line.

Course I was lol

Did enjoy watching toney get a beating tho

watching randy beat on toney was more of a relief to me.

Same here but it was always gona happen.

I'm a big boxing fan and got no problem with top boxers having a go at mma but Toney talked so much when it was painfully obvious he wasn't gona be able to back it up! I no he was trying to sell the fight but he just came across as having no respect for randy and what mma fighters can do!

to be fair to Toney, he dicks on everyone before he fights them - MMA or boxing

but yeah I was so happy when I saw Randy get the takedown about 10seconds in

when the ref said fight and randy walked to the centre of the cage i was fearing a one punch knockout.

I won't lie my heart was going about 100 beats per second until the takedown. Glad it was randy that fought toney although I'd have liked to have seen what johny jones could have done to him

it would have been great to see someone stand and trade with him for a while but a boxer wearing 4oz gloves would be devastating to any mixed martial artist.