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What is the one fight, the one fight that stands out above them all, and why?
I will give three examples, with two honorable mentions and the top choice.
3) Shogun vs Machida 1
I love Shogun, the best lhw fighter of all time before Jones showed up. He looked beastly in 05' GP. On the other hand, I love Shotokan Karate and everything about it, and though some thought Machida was boring as hell like Okami, loved Machida before he came into UFC. This was the fight for the title I think, an undefeated fighter who looked invincible in Machida vs Shogun Rua, who looked like who could beat anybody in his prime, and the fight delivered, while lots of people counted Rua out due to how invincible Machida looked. It was a nail-biter.
Shogun beat Machida, and it was a war.
2) Crocop vs GG 2
This fight had an element that so unlikely that movies won't dare make this shit up.
A fan of Crocop since forever, his first loss against GG still gives me nightmares. In first fight, he didn't train for elbows then got his shit pushed in with elbows, which was why he got headkicked to living death when he got criminally stood up by Herb while dazed
He was definitely losing the second fight, but out of no fucking where hurt and finished GG with elbows literally inside the guard in the second, inside the guard of BJJ master.
That was the most exciting finish of all time, because of the love I have for Crocop, how much I wanted Crocop to win, and how washed up Crocop looked forever in the UFC losing to scrubs in the UFC left and right and the fact that he literally flipped the scripts on the guy who did the same years ago in a losing fight at that too.
1) "THE MMA FIGHT" for me has to be "GSP vs Hughes 2"
Used to be a huge GSP fan, and I guess it happened forever ago, but Hughes was a dominant welterweight champion who was beating everyone who also happen to have a win over GSP, who used to be absolutely dynamic and exciting fighter that was out there.
Anyways, it had a good build up to the fight, it was really the fight between two best welterweights of all time, and it definitely lived up to a fight as it was a good fight until an equally exciting finish, a head kick ko in the title fight by a challenger, which I'm not sure if it has everhappened before and since.
GSP was a absolute beast back in the day, who could do it all, before that tragic Serra loss took him away from us.
This one had the quality of the fighters, build up to the fight, drama going into the fight with GSP not being impressed with the performance of Hughes, the prestige of a fight for the belt, and a good content of the fight itself, and an exciting finish. It had it all
I will give three examples, with two honorable mentions and the top choice.
3) Shogun vs Machida 1
I love Shogun, the best lhw fighter of all time before Jones showed up. He looked beastly in 05' GP. On the other hand, I love Shotokan Karate and everything about it, and though some thought Machida was boring as hell like Okami, loved Machida before he came into UFC. This was the fight for the title I think, an undefeated fighter who looked invincible in Machida vs Shogun Rua, who looked like who could beat anybody in his prime, and the fight delivered, while lots of people counted Rua out due to how invincible Machida looked. It was a nail-biter.
Shogun beat Machida, and it was a war.
2) Crocop vs GG 2
This fight had an element that so unlikely that movies won't dare make this shit up.
A fan of Crocop since forever, his first loss against GG still gives me nightmares. In first fight, he didn't train for elbows then got his shit pushed in with elbows, which was why he got headkicked to living death when he got criminally stood up by Herb while dazed
He was definitely losing the second fight, but out of no fucking where hurt and finished GG with elbows literally inside the guard in the second, inside the guard of BJJ master.
That was the most exciting finish of all time, because of the love I have for Crocop, how much I wanted Crocop to win, and how washed up Crocop looked forever in the UFC losing to scrubs in the UFC left and right and the fact that he literally flipped the scripts on the guy who did the same years ago in a losing fight at that too.
1) "THE MMA FIGHT" for me has to be "GSP vs Hughes 2"
Used to be a huge GSP fan, and I guess it happened forever ago, but Hughes was a dominant welterweight champion who was beating everyone who also happen to have a win over GSP, who used to be absolutely dynamic and exciting fighter that was out there.
Anyways, it had a good build up to the fight, it was really the fight between two best welterweights of all time, and it definitely lived up to a fight as it was a good fight until an equally exciting finish, a head kick ko in the title fight by a challenger, which I'm not sure if it has everhappened before and since.
GSP was a absolute beast back in the day, who could do it all, before that tragic Serra loss took him away from us.
This one had the quality of the fighters, build up to the fight, drama going into the fight with GSP not being impressed with the performance of Hughes, the prestige of a fight for the belt, and a good content of the fight itself, and an exciting finish. It had it all
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