top 5 fights of 08

with two awesome fights last night, here's my top 5 of 08.

1. Miguel Torres vs. Yoshihiro Maeda
2. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Tim Sylvia
3. Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
4. Paul Kelly vs. Paul Taylor
5. Nate Diaz vs. Kurt Pelligrino

My top 5 Right now stand as->

1. Faber Vs Pulver
2.Eddie Alvarez Vs Joachim Hansen
3.Torres Vs Maeda
4. Sylvia Vs Nog
5. Smith Vs Lawler (although bummer how the fight ended)

Honorable Mention: Kalib Starnes Vs Quarry (non-stop action, display of great cardio also)

1. Joachim Hansen vs Eddie Alvarez
2. Miguel Torres vs. Yoshihiro Maeda
3. Frank Shamrock vs Cung Le
4. Tim Sylvia vs Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera
5. Scott Smith vs Robbie Lawler

Shamrock vs Le

Nogueira vs Sylvia

Diaz vs Pelligrino

Hamill vs Boetch

Mir vs Lesnar (for the simple fact that Lesnar had to tap and people were brought back to reality.

Not in order, just as they come to me.

1. Henderson vs Rampage

2. Lesnar vs Mir

3. Henderson vs Silva

4. Faber vs Pulver

5. Torres vs Maeda

faber v pulver
torres v maeda
Lawler v smith still great even though it was shortend.
Carano v young
and undecided

These were a couple of solid fights also that I don't see listed yet:

Goulet / Hironaka
Gouveia / Lambert
Santiago / Sasaki

1. Miguel Torres vs. Yoshihiro Maeda
2. Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
3. Lyoto Machida vs Tito Ortiz
4. Nate Diaz vs. Kurt Pelligrino
5. Paul Taylor vs Paul Kelly

My bad on Guida vs Huerta. I loved that fight but I guess it was best of 07. Good catch!

Guida/Huerta and Hendo/Rampage were in 07.

5. Carono vs. Young
4. Penn vs. Sherk
3. Torres vs. Maeda
2. Razor Rob vs. Varner
1. Le vs. Shamrock

Others: Paul Kelly vs Paul Taylor, Kos vs. Hazelett, and Leben vs. Sakara

1. Penn vs Sherk
2. Torres vs. Maeda
3. Big Tim vs Big Nog
4. Franklin vs Lutter
5.Jens vs Faber

no real order

have people not seen the hansen/alvarez fight ?

it's a two fight race right now for Fight Of The Year:

Alvarez-Hansen

Torres-Maeda

I get the feeling I will be adding Gilbert Melendez vs. Josh Thomson when they fight.

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Posted by loller90278

have people not seen the hansen/alvarez fight ?

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i haven't seen it yet, but im definately going to search for it now after all the love i'm seeing it get.

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Posted by juanez13

My top 5 Right now stand as->

1. Faber Vs Pulver
2.Eddie Alvarez Vs Joachim Hansen
3.Torres Vs Maeda
4. Sylvia Vs Nog
5. Smith Vs Lawler (although bummer how the fight ended)

Honorable Mention: Kalib Starnes Vs Quarry (non-stop action, display of great cardio also)

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his footwork was incredible, it was like, that was all he trained.

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Posted by loller90278

have people not seen the hansen/alvarez fight ?

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In my opinion that should be on every list. I think it is definitley one of the top 5 fights this year, if not the top fight of the year. Faber and Pulver should also be up there.

1. Faber vs. Pulver
2. Penn vs. Sherk
3. Lawler vs Smith

Amazing how these all were stand up fights when I usually like ground work

1) Hansen vs Alvarez
2)Torres vs Maeda
3)Clementi vs Stout
4)Faber vs Pulver
5)Nog vs Sylvia

Honorable mention to my boy Aoki beating JZ

1. Torres vs Maeda
2. Faber vs Pulver
3 Big Nog vs Sylvia
4 Herring vs Kongo
5 Diaz vs Pellegrino