Mid Year Awards: 10 Best MMA Fights Of 2009
by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 24, 2009 8:23 AM EDT
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PrintWe are just over halfway thru 2009 and have been treated to some of the best MMA fights we ever seen. We've seen back and forth battles, guys getting whipped on and coming back to win, nasty KO's, and slick submissions. We'll be touching on all of those subjects later, but just wanted to highlight some of the best fights of the year thus far in 2009. In no particular order:
- Martin Kampmann vs. Carlos Condit, UFN 18
- Miguel Torres vs. Takeya Mizugaki, WEC 40
- Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida, UFC TUF 9 Finale
- Hideo Tokoro vs. Abe Cullum, DREAM.9
- Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber II, WEC 41
- Scott Jorgensen vs. Antonio Banuelos, WEC 41
- Donald Cerrone vs. Jamie Varner, WEC 38
- Mac Danzig vs. Josh Neer, UFN 17
- Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski, Affliction 2
- Tyson Griffin vs. Rafael Dos Anjos, UFN 18
No surprise in that most of the best fights are from the smaller lightweights. What say you, and are there any that I may have missed?
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Shaddup!
You just saying that cause Kampmann won ;) Nah, that was a dope fight though.
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I’ll admit my bias :)
Nothing really beats when you’re emotionally invested in a fight — one of those instances where you don’t even care if it sucks as long as your guy wins.
Bloody hell.
True
When certain guys fight…I’m tired after the fight because I’m moving and ish just like if I was fighting…lol.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 24, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions
lol, man UFC 92 had me on the edge of my seat the WHOLE card just about
by Charles Walker on Jun 24, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Fedor/AA might be a highlight KO, but not a best fight list candidate.
...some call me "el mexicutioner"...
Well
I had to put Affliction on the list or else I’d have some folk calling me a Zuffa shill and shit nahmean…lol.
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by Kelvin Hunt on Jun 24, 2009 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Yea
That was a good one…I tend to favor fights that have a little of everything in them though…not just standup(although their fight was a war)…good call.
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