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Top 25 Fights to Show a New MMA Fan!! Finally :D

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Top 25 Fights to Show a New MMA Fan!!

The voting is in. Here is the top 25 fights to show to a new MMA fan. The fights are ranked according to those that received the highest percentage of votes in their respective rounds.

1) Kevin Randleman vs. Fedor Emelianenko - 68.57%
http://www.clipjunkie.com/Randleman-vs-Fedor-vid130.html

2) Stephan Bonnar vs. Forrest Griffin - 64%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Forrest_Griffin_vs_Stephan_Bonnar_TUF_1_Finale?vid=10001572&tid=100

3) Takanori Gomi vs. Nick Diaz - 63%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Takanori_Gomi_vs_Nick_Diaz_PRIDE_33_Second_Coming?vid=10003332&tid=100

4) Clay Guida vs. Roger Huerta - 54%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Roger_Huerta_vs_Clay_Guida_TUF_6_Finale?vid=10001224&tid=100

5) Diego Sanchez vs. Karo Parisyan - 50%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Diego_Sanchez_vs_Karo_Parisyan_UFN_6?vid=10003461&tid=100

6) Rampage jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva #2 - 50%
http://fightgameblog.com/2008/11/video-vault-rampage-vs-silva-ii/

7) Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Wanderlei Silva - 50%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Wanderlei_Silva_vs_Mirko_Cro_Cop_Filipovic_II_PRI?vid=10002609&tid=100

8) Wanderlei Silva vs. Chuck Liddell - 49%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Chuck_Liddell_vs_Wanderlei_Silva_UFC_79?vid=10001215&tid=100

9) Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida - 47%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Diego_Sanchez_vs_Clay_Guida_TUF_9_Finale?vid=10005354&tid=100

10) Fedor Emelianenko vs. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic - 46%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Fedor_Emelianenko_vs_Mirko_Cro_Cop_Filipovic_PRIDE?vid=10000813&tid=100

11) Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - 46%
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bc74_cro-cop-vs-nogueira-final-conflict_sport

12) BJ Penn vs. Joe Stevenson - 46%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_B_J_Penn_vs_Joe_Stevenson_UFC_80?vid=10001194&tid=100

13) Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg II - 44%
http://mmavideolinks.to/fighter-videos/167/1675-frank-trigg-vs-matt-hughes-2.html

14) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Fedor Emelianenko - 42%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Fed...io_Rodrigo_Nogueira_III_?vid=10000811&tid=100

15) Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans - 41%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Lyoto_Machida_vs_Rashad_Evans_UFC_98_HD?vid=10005327&tid=100

16) Brett Rogers vs. Fedor Emelianenko - 41%
http://www.arkhilario.com/2009/11/07/fedor-vs-rogers-video/

17) Diego Sanchez vs. Nick Diaz - 41%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Diego_Sanchez_vs_Nick_Diaz_TUF_2_Finale?vid=10001596&tid=100

18) Forrest Griffin vs. Rampage Jackson - 39%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Quinton_Rampage_Jackson_vs_Forrest_Griffin_UFC_86?vid=10000725&tid=100

19) Georges St. Pierre vs. John Fitch - 37%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Georges_St_Pierre_vs_Jon_Fitch_UFC_87?vid=10001033

20) Don Frye vs. Yoshihiro Takayama - 36%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Don_Frye_VS_Yoshihiro_Takayama_at_PRIDE_21_Demo?vid=10007774&tid=100

21) Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogeuira - 36%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Randy_Couture_vs_Antonio_Rodrigo_Nogueira_UFC_102?vid=10006226&tid=100

22) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Bob Sapp - 36%
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ydfs_bob-sapp-vs-antonio-rodrigo-nogueir_sport

23) Randy Couture vs. Tito Ortiz - 34%
http://mmavideolinks.to/fighter-videos/36/290-randy-couture-vs-tito-ortiz.html

24) Anderson Silva vs. Dan Henderson - 31%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Anderson_Silva_vs_Dan_Henderson_UFC_82_Pride_of_a_?vid=10000870&tid=100

25) Randy Couture vs. Chuck Liddell #1 - 26%
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Chuck_Liddell_vs_Randy_Couture_1_UFC_43?vid=10001205&tid=100

Honorably Mentions: Rampage vs. Wanderlei, Shogun vs. Rampage, BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk, Faber vs. Brown 2

If any of the links don't work, or if they don't have the whole fights, PM me and I'll fix it.
 
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#6 ·
GREAT list, I love this. 100% worth the effort and I will be saving this to a few servers and my personal machine, I recommend lots of others do it too. :thumbsup:


Shogun vs Rampage IMO should have made the list but all fights are great!


edit: lol @ "John" Fitch. Mythbusters made that same mistake.
 
#92 ·
YES! I was thinking the same thing! I would also add Faber Vs. Pulver. That went back and forth for 5 rounds.
 
#16 ·
One of my favorite fights I would show a MMA newbie is Martin Kampmann vs Drew McFedries.

The fight starts off with Drew landing some good punches and just walking through anything Kampmann is throwing. Kampmann's face starts to swell as he gets the fight to the ground. Secures side control and then gets a beautiful arm-triangle and puts McFedries to sleep.

Great fight by Kampmann that shows how a well rounded fighter should always beat a one dimensional fighter.
 
#17 ·
wow excellent work!

its so easy to think of fights that could/should be in there. but i dont think you could say that any of the fights in the list dont deserve to be there

again, gr8 work
 
#19 ·
25?

So hard to narrow it down to 25 fights, great list but i think there are alot of great fight from back in the early days that would be great for new fan so see how the sport and fighters have evolved
Keith Hackney vs Emmanuel Yarborough..1 of my all time favs
Marco Ruas vs Paul Varelans...awsome fight !
Pedro Rizzo vs Tank Abbott....another great one !
Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz.....mma rope a dope!
.....really need to do a top 50 fight of all time list !
 
#20 ·
So hard to narrow it down to 25 fights, great list but i think there are alot of great fight from back in the early days that would be great for new fan so see how the sport and fighters have evolved
Keith Hackney vs Emmanuel Yarborough..1 of my all time favs
Marco Ruas vs Paul Varelans...awsome fight !
Pedro Rizzo vs Tank Abbott....another great one !
Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz.....mma rope a dope!
.....really need to do a top 50 fight of all time list !
You could do a top 100 and still have great fights left out!!! I mean spike TV did the 100 greatest UFC fights and they really were incredible fights, so that is without fights outside of the UFC!
 
#21 ·
Well if the goal is to show a new mma fan what mma is all about, then a fight needs to have a great representation of a stand-up game as well as great wrestling and jujitsu, and if that's the textbook type fight that we're going for, then i'm very surprised that Nogueira v Barnett (1&2) didn't even make it to the list never mind the top 3, a fight which showcased great stand up and also great wrestling and jujitsu, very surprised that its not there...

What do u guys think...?
 
#22 ·
I think your absolutly right, however on the same note there are prob a hundred others that could make this list as well !....how do you narrow it down to twenty five ? so many great fightS where do you draw the line ?so many great ones to chose from, great fights will always be left out ! btw barnett vs Nog II is one of my all time favs !
 
#24 ·
Don't forget you also have to throw in ridiculously exciting fights to keep that new fan interested long enough to learn about all of the aspects of MMA.

AND, you also need to throw in the some of the great epic battles that show why certain fighters are revered above all else. If you had a guy getting into boxing, you would have to show them at least one Tyson fight, so you understand why he was so feared.
 
#26 ·
Yeah, I'm cool with that. I just don't think all the fights have to be technical battles that show all aspects of the sport. That is why you have 25 because it allows you to show the different aspects through different fights.
 
#27 ·
Well like I said before, Spike had that top 100 UFC fights and they were all important and awesome! That doesn't even include anything outside of the UFC so making a top 25 covering all of MMA is very difficult.

I think that this list is more than acceptable. :thumbsup:
 
#34 ·
That is exactly how I did this list, and it is tough because you can only have 16 poll options per poll. I compiled a list of 80 fights, using user suggestions, divided that up into 5 groups of 16, and had people vote on their top 5 out of the 16. Then, I organized the list in a ranking according to what fights received the highest percentage of votes in their respective poll.

It took about 2 weeks or so to do. Also, I'm reluctant to do another poll and process so similar right now because I just finished this one 16 days ago. I am worried that if I do another one so soon, the turnout will not be impressive and won't get many votes.
 
#35 ·
Wow! Props for the effort man! I didn't know it took so much time for you to do this, come to think of it, it is quite a tricky thing to do, don't want u thinking i didn't appreciate the list or anything!

I was actually thinking of starting a thread of which fights people thought were the best ju-jitsu fights in the ufc, not sure if u wanna do something like that instead, i wanted to check out some of the more hardcore jj fights in the UFC and MMA as a whole as i'm thinking maybe i missed some...
 
#36 ·
If you want to start the thread, I will happily add to it and encourage the other mods to do so as well. I'll talk to them about creating another official top 10(or whatever number) Jitz fights. Basically, to me, it all hinges upon the turnout in responses.
 
#38 ·
Sweet sh**!! That is exactly what i've been hoping for. If you want a copy of the whole 80 fights before they were narrowed down, simply PM me your email address and I'll send it to you in excel format.
 
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