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***Top 25 fights to show a new fan - MAKEOVER, we need your input!***

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#1 · (Edited)
So, our lovely old list of the top 25 fights to show a new fan is in serious need of an update.

A LOT of great fights have happened since then, and this is where you guys come in. We need your list. Your top 25 of most entertaining fights all time.

Remember that this has to be the top 25 fights that you would show to a friend if you wanted him/her to get into MMA.

The way this works is, when this thread is eventually closed we will take all your lists, give every fight 1-25 points according to it's placement on each list and add it all up. That way we get an average top 25 which we will unveil sometime in 2012 :)

Now, have fun making these lists - and put some thought into it! And remember - every promotion is in this, not just UFC :)

And thank you for your help!
 
#72 ·
I may be alone in this and I'll construct a list when there is more time allotted to me but a Roy Nelson fight should be somewhere on the list. Either v JDS or Werdum. The man with the best chin since the chin was invented should be shown to new fans.
 
#74 ·
So to put together my top 25 list I set some parameters,

no fighter appears on the list more than twice

no more than four fights from one year

1994-1999 - 4
2000-2002 - 4
2003-2005 - 4
2006-2009 - 6
2010-2011 - 7

UFC - 19
Other - 6

OW - 3
HW - 6
LHW - 5
MW - 2
WW - 5
LW - 4

1. Randy Couture vs Chuck Liddell (UFC 43 - 2003)
2. Anthony Pettis vs Benson Henderson (WEC 53 - 2010)
3. Matt Hughes vs Frank Trigg (UFC 52 - 2005)
4. Don Frye vs Ken Shamrock (Pride 19 - 2002)
5. Dan Henderson vs Shogun Rua (UFC 139 - 2011)

6. Forrest Griffin vs Stephan Bonnar (TUF 1 - 2005)
7. Fedor vs. Cro Cop(PRIDE Final Conflict: 2005)
8. Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz (UFC 22 - 1999)
9. Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen (UFC 117 - 2010)
10. Bas Rutten vs Kevin Randleman (UFC 20 - 1999)

11. Marcos Ruas vs Paul Varelans (UFC 7 - 1995)
12. Chris Leben vs Yoshiro Akiyama (UFC 116 - 2010)
13. Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida (TUF Uk vs US - 2009)
14. Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard (UFC 125 - 2011)
15. Nick Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi (PRIDE 33 - 2007)

16. Babalu Sobral vs David Heath (UFC 74 - 2007)
17. Dan Henderson vs Fedor Emelianenko (Strikeforce - 2011)
18. Don Frye vs Yoshihiro Takayama (Pride 21 - 2002)
19. Brock Lesnar vs Frank Mir (UFC 100 - 2009)
20. Shonie Carter vs Matt Serra (UFC 31 - 2001)

21. Diego Sanchez vs Martin Kampmann (UFClive - 2011)
22. Randy Couture vs Tim Slyvia (UFC 68 - 2007)
23. Georges St. Pierre vs BJ Penn (UFC 58 - 2006)
24. Carlos Newton vs Pat Miletich (UFC 31 - 2001)
25. Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn (UFC 4 - 1994)
 
#75 ·
Hendo/Shogun
Bendo/Pettis
Griffin/Bonnar 1
Edgar/Maynard
Anderson/Sonnen
Liddell/Silva
Diaz/Daley
Zaromskis/Ikemoto
Garcia/Zombie 1
Cruz/Faber 2
Machida/Shogun 1
Aldo/Swanson
Couture/Sylvia
Kongo/Barry
Condit/McDonald
Sanchez/Parisyan
Grove/Herman
Carter/Serra
Leben/Akiyama
Dos Santos/Nelson
Machida/Evans
Evans/Liddell
Griffin/Jackson
Sotiropoulos/Stevenson
Sanchez/Guida

Now I know there are some I have missed but I definitely had to add in Marius Zaromskis vs Seichi Ikemoto. That was one of the best(and Most Bizzare) Fights I have seen.
 
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