A guide to the most epic fights in UFC history

[Μίλων ο Κροτωνιάτης]

Greetings Sherdoggers!

Since I approached the world of MMA only recently it came to my mind the idea of creating a thread where you can post any famous fight according your opinion that made the history of UFC from 1-197 in a chronological order and is judged according specific categories. Using the search option of the forum gives me only unsatisfactory or partial results. I also didn't want a mere top ten or a ranking that can be found via Google. (Like on tapology.com). I decided so to create this thread for newbies and veterans with all the fights that according to your eyes every true lover of this martial art should know. I think that it have the potential to become a sticky thread that will updated weekly in this undersection, whether there will be enough fights to make a chronological list .​

What defines a great fight? I have pick up the sequent categories:

1.Technique - Quality of technique shown
2.Excitment - Big strikes landed, near or actual subs, blood if you like that.
3.Competitiveness - Higher the more even the fight is
4.Significance- Titles, fueds, general hype

You can rate this categories with this scale:

1. None/Pathetic;
2. Weak/Not so much
3. Mediocre
4. Strong/Very much
5. Epic as Hell.

Here an example on how to post a fight:
UFC 189: Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor (T-5; 1; E-5; C-1; S-4)

The list so far:

Event: Fights (T E C S)

UFC 1: Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock 1

Royce Gracie vs. Gerard Gordeau​

UFC 3 : Royce Gracie vs. Kimo Leopoldo

UFC 5 : Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock 2

UFC Ultimate 96 : Don Frye vs. Tank Abbott

UFC 15 : Randy Couture vs. Vitor Belfort

UFC 17 : Pete Williams vs. Mark Coleman

UFC 25 : Mirko Filipovic vs. Wanderlei Silva 2 (5 5 2 4)

UFC 30 : Pedro Rizzo vs. Josh Barnett

UFC 31 : Randy Couture vs. Pedro Rizzo

Chuck Liddell vs. Kevin Randleman​

Shonie Carter vs. Matt Serra​

Carlos Newton vs. Pat Miletich​

UFC 32 : BJ Penn vs. Din Thomas

UFC 34 : Matt Hughes vs. Carlos Newton 1

BJ Penn vs. Caol Uno​

UFC 35 : Jens Pulver vs. BJ Penn

UFC 38 : Matt Hughes vs. Carlos Newton

UFC 40 : Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock 1

Chuck Liddell vs. Renato Sobral​

UFC 41 : BJ Penn vs. Caol Uno

UFC 42 : Rich Franklin vs. Evan Tanner

Matt Hughes vs. Sean Sherk​

UFC 43 : Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture 1

UFC 44 : Tito Ortiz vs. Randy Couture

UFC 45 : Frank Trigg vs. Matt Hughes 1

Evan Tannar vs. Phil Baroni​

UFC 46 : BJ Penn vs. Matt Hughes

GSP vs. Karo Parisyan​

UFC 47 : Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell 1

Wade Ship vs. Jonathan Wiezoreck​

UFC 48 : Frank Mir vs. Tim Sylvia

UFC 49 : Chuck Liddell vs. Vernon White

Karo Parisyan vs. Nick Diaz​

UFC 50 : Matt Hughes vs. GSP

UFC 51 : Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell

UFC 52 : Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture 2

Frank Trigg vs. Matt Hughes 2​

GSP vs. Jason Miller​

UFC 54 : GSP vs. Frank Trigg

Chuck Liddell vs. Jeremy Horn​

UFC TUF 1 : Rich Franklin vs. Ken Shamrock

Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture 3​

Stephan Bonnar vs. Forest Griffin 1​

UFC TUF 2 : Diego Sanchez vs. Nick Diaz

UFC 56 : GSP vs. Sean Sherk

UFC 58 : Rich Franklin vs. David Loiseau

UFC 60 : Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie

UFC 61 : Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock 2

Chris Leben vs. Anderson Silva​

UFC Fight Night 6.5 : Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock 3

UFC 62 : Chuck Liddell vs. Renato Sobral

UFC 63 : Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn

UFC 64 : Anderson Silva vs. Rich Franklin 1

Sean Sherk vs. Kenny Florian​

UFC TUF 4 : Scott Smith vs. Pete Sell

UFC 65 : Matt Hughes vs. GSP 2

UFC 66 : Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell 2

Forrest Griffin vs. Keith Jardine​

UFC Fight Night 8 : Rashad Evans vs. Sean Salmon

UFC 67 : Frankie Edgar vs. Tyson Griffin 4 1 4 2

UFC 68 : Randy Couture vs. Tim Sylvia

UFC 69 : Roger Huerta vs. Leonard Garcia

Matt Serra vs. GSP​

UFC 70 : Mirko Filipovic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga

UFC 71 : Quinton Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell

Houston Alexander vs Keith Jardine.​

UFC Fight Night 10 : Sam Stout vs. Spencer Fisher 1

UFC 72 : Tyson Griffin vs. Clay Guide

UFC 74 : Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Randy Couture

UFC 75 : Dan Henderson vs. Quinton Jackson

UFC 76 : Keith Jardine vs. Chuck Liddell

Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio Rua​

UFC 78 : Thiago Alves vs. Chris Lytle

UFC TUF 6 : Roger Huerta vs. Clay Guida

John Koppenhaver vs. Jared Rollins​

UFC 79 : Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva

Matt Hughes vs. GSP 3​

UFC 80 : BJ Penn vs. Joe Stevenson

Paul Kelly vs. Paul Taylor​

UFC 81 : Antonio Rodrigo Nogueiro vs. Tim Sylvia

UFC 82 : Anderson Silva vs. Dan Henderson

UFC Fight Night 13 : Kenny Florian vs. Joe Lauzon

UFC 83 : GSP vs. Matt Serra

UFC 84 : B.J. Penn vs. Sean Sherk

Wanderlei Silva vs. Keith Jardine​

Lyoto Machida vs. Tito Ortiz​

UFC 85 : Matt Hughes vs. Thiago Alves

UFC 86 : Forrest Jackson vs. Quinton Jackson

UFC Fight Night 14 : Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin

UFC 87 : GSP vs. Jon Fitch

UFC 90 : Sean Sherk vs. Tyson Griffin

UFC 91 : Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture

UFC 92 : Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton Jackson 3

Rashad Evans vs. Forrest Griffin​

Frank Mir vs. Antonio Nogueira​

BJ Penn vs. Matt Serra​

UFC 94 : BJ Penn vs. GSP

UFC 98 : Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans

UFC TUF 9 : Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida

UFC 100 : Frank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar

UFC 106 : Dennis Siver vs. Paul Kelly

UFC 116 : Chris Leben vs. Yoshiro Akiyama

UFC 117 : Chael Sonnen vs. Anderson Silva 1

UFC 121 : Cain Velasquez vs. Brock Lesnar (3 4 2 4)

UFC 128 : Jon Jones vs. Mauricio Rua

UFC Live 4 : Kongo vs. Barry

UFC 136 : Melvin Guillard vs. Joe Lauzon

UFC 137 : BJ Penn vs. Nick Diaz

Donald Cerrone vs. Dennis Siver​

UFC 139 : Mauricio Rua vs. Dan Henderson 1 (4 5 5 3)

UFC 140 : Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 2

UFC 146 : Jamie Varner vs. Edson Barboza

UFC on Fox : Jon Lauzon vs. Jamie Varner

UFC 157 : Dennis Bermudez vs. Matt Grice

UFC on Fuel TV : Wanderlei Silva vs. Brian Stann

UFC 165 : Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson (4 3 5 4)

UFC Fight Night 38 : Mauricio Rua vs. Dan Henderson 2

UFC Fight Night 39 : Johnny Bedford vs. Rani Yahya 1

UFC 174 : Roland Delorme vs. Nick Denis

UFC Fight Night 51 : Johnny Bedford vs. Rani Yahya 2

UFC 188 : Gilbert Melendez vs. Diego Sanchez

UFC 189 : Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor

Rory MacDonald vs. Robbie Lawler 2 (4 4 4 4)​

UFC 193 : Mark Hunt vs. Cheik Kongo

UFC 196 : Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz

I excuse myself in advance for obviously grammatical, orthographical or semantical errors, English isn't my mother tongue.

 

[Andre Xiong]

Anderson Silva v Rich Franklin 1.

 

[chitoortiz]

 

[Hazuki Ryo]

Wanderlei-Rampage fights
Hendo-Shogun
Lawler-Macdonald

 

[Cptn1NSAN0]

Frankie Edgar vs Tyson Griffin
B1, Tec 4, A5, C2

 

[Ken Fresno]

TRT

 

[mmmjojo]

Griffin vs Guida

 

[CTYankee]

Wanderlei-Rampage fights
Hendo-Shogun
Lawler-Macdonald

All of these plus:
Off the top of my head:

Jones Shogun
Mir-Nogueira 2
Anderson - Chael 1
Frye - Takayama (Not UFC)

Nobody is going to do your abbreviation and formatting crap.

 

[Phronimos]

Too much racking of brain involved, can't do it now...

 

[Μίλων ο Κροτωνιάτης]

I see, i was too ambitious...

 

[BobSappIsMyDad]

Sanchez - Melendez
Wanderlei - Stann

 

[NHB7]

Royce vs Ken 1 & 2

Tito vs Lions Den fighters with Ken screaming on the cage.

Frank S. Championship run culminating in fight with Tito.

Tito vs Ken 1-3

Tito vs Randy and Chuck

Chuck vs Randy 1-3

Randy vs. Tim Sylvia

These aren't the greatest fights, but I'm trying to follow a tough thread of rivalries...

 

[rockylion]

Mcdonald v Lawler 2 for a recent blood bath

 

[reddhelium]

for my personal taste, an epic fight has to have alternating momentum- one fighter gains the advantage, and then the other fighter grabs it.

this is not factored into your judging criteria.

 

[mbach4307]

Leben vs akayama is a 10.

 

[Koloth]

I can contribute a list of all exciting heavyweight contests 2007-now. I've watched them all. Everyone. Every prelim fight. And I've categorized them. Once I'm home I can post the list.

 

[eclectocrat]

Sorry TS, the abbreviations suck, although I like the idea.

Rory-Lawler 2:
1. Amount of Blood/Injuries - 5
2. Spectacular Techniques/KO’s or Submissions - 2
3. Action/Dynamics - 5
4. Context (Title fight, enmity, hype, etc.) - 2

 

[SKSer45]

Let's paint the town red baby!

 

[NoContest]

This thread just made me think "What is it about 2 guys hitting each other really hard that's so much fun?"

 

[jack87]

Kimbo vs Dada is up there for sure