Best Fights of 2012

[alpharowe3]

I want to put together 3 hours of the fights for 2012. All orgs qualify. I'm eventually going to skim through all of the UFC, BFC, Invicta FC, TPF and SF events to put together a list but you guys can save me some time I'll add fights to this posts as you guys suggest them.

1. Chan Sung Jung vs Dustin Poirier 16:07
2. Jamie Varner vs Joe Lauzon 12:44
3. Jim Miller vs Joe Lauzon 15:00
4. Jon Fitch vs Erik Silva 15:00
5. Roland Delorme vs Nick Denis 4:59
6. Miesha Tate vs Julie Kedzie 13:28
7. Lloyd Woodard vs Patricky Freire 6:46
8. Ronda Rousey vs Miesha Tate 4:27
9. John Lineker vs Louis Gaudinot 9:54
10. John Albert vs. Ivan Menjivar 3:45
11. John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen 4:59
12. Nate Marquardt vs Tyron Woodley 16:39
13. Sarah Kaufman vs Alexis Davis 15:00

(We're at like 140 minutes out of 180)

I feel like we're forgetting some good Bellator fights.

 

[mawashi geri**]

Shogun vs vera imo

 

[Tyler51**]

Shogun vs vera imo

 

[ÜnderLand]

Off the top of my head, and maybe because this fight just happened, but Miller vs. J-Lo was really good. Probably not the best of 2012, but a darn good match IMO.

 

[Dart Feld]

Lauzon vs Varner
KZ vs Poirer
Fitch vs Silva
Miesha Tate vs Julie Kedzie
Roland Delorme vs Nick Denis

 

[Ryan Wagner**]

Lauzon-Varner
Lauzon-Miller
Bendo-Nate
Jake-Diego
Bendo-Edgar 1
Marquardt-Woodley
Woodward-Patricky

I didn't enjoy KZ-Poirer as much as everyone else seemed to.

 

[Legendary]

Lineker vs Gaudinot was a war.

 

[Augustus Caesar]

Barboza vs. Etim

Dustin P. vs. J. Brookins

KZ VS. Dustin

Jim Miller vs. Joe Lauzon

Rousey vs. Tate

GSP vs. Condit

Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone

Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon

Cain Velasquez vs. Big Foot

DC vs. Josh Barnett

Alverez vs. Chandler

Chris Weidman vs. Mark Munoz

 

[trane]

KZ-Poirer
Lauzon-Varner
Lauzon-Miller
Lineker-Gaudinot
Ellenberger-Sanchez
Marquardt-Woodley
Henderson-Edgar(1st fight)
Fitch-Silva

I think that's most of them

 

[Unbreakabull]

Everyone has such great fights listed, any of those could work. The worst fight? Nothing can undo the 25 minutes of torture that was Evans Davis

 

[fight4ippon]

already mentioned but

gsp **vs condit

Silva vs Bonnar

 

[JoshuaGilbert]

Lauzon-Varner
Lauzon-Miller
Fitch-Silva
Condit-GSP
KZ-Poirier

 

[rl4090526]

Lauzon-Varner
Lauzon-Miller
Bendo-Nate
Jake-Diego
Bendo-Edgar 1
Marquardt-Woodley
Woodward-Patricky

I didn't enjoy KZ-Poirer as much as everyone else seemed to.

cuz ur fucking weird

 

[alpharowe3]

What about Ivan Menjivar vs John Albert?

 

[GrindingANARCHY]

If I was to put a list together it would look like this

Kz vs Porier
Lauzon vs Varner
Gsp vs Condit
Edgar vs Bendo 1
Kampmann vs Ellenberger
Shogun vs Vera
McCall vs MM 1
Aldo vs Mendes
Lauzon vs Miller
Silva vs Bonnar
Fitch vs Silva

A few more but that's off the top of the dome

 

[trane]

What about Ivan Menjivar vs John Albert?

That along with Denis-Delorme and Jorgenson-Albert were some of the best rounds this year.

 

[alpharowe3]

If you want to look at the UFC's FOTN bonuses from this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_bonus_award_recipients
Scroll down to or ctl+f UFC 142 for all the 2012 events.

 

[aquamanpunch]

Marquardt/Woodley has gotta be added to that list, TS.

 

[alpharowe3]

Marquardt/Woodley has gotta be added to that list, TS.

Alright, I did.

 

[alpharowe3]

What about Brian Rogers vs Vitor Vianna/Andreas Spang? Or Bryan Baker vs Karl Amoussou?

And I feel like we are forgetting some Russian fighters exciting fights.