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Eight Winning Losers of 2008
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AchillesHeel
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 594-345
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: In the cheap seats.
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Eight Winning Losers of 2008
By Danny Acosta
Sherdog.com
Borrowing from a favorite Karate High School song, fighters can either believe "no one remembers second place" or "winning isn't everything" when they fall short of victory. In a sport where defeat afflicts everyone not named Fedor Emelianenko, it seems wise to believe the latter.
Leonard Garcia made his name smiling under a barrage of punches from Roger Huerta at UFC 69, some 19 months before he became known for waylaying Jens Pulver. Every year, a select group of mixed martial artists experiences victory in defeat. Here's the graduating class of 2008.
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Post #1 1/9/09 9:25:06AM
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ohiostate1016
MMA Sensei
Career record: 390-284
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Columbus, OH
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Interesting piece. Well written and a great idea.
Interestingly enough, I went through the first five fighters on that list saying, "Oh, I picked him to win, I picked him. Yup, him too." The only ones that I didn't pick were Miura, Fitch, and Hazelett, I believe. But those performances make me much more likely to pick those guys in the future.
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Post #2 1/9/09 9:34:17AM
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nickcuc547
BANNED
Career record: 384-223
Season: 0-0 (#-)
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I don't know about fitch, he proved he is tough as nails but he didn't prove he could hang with the best.
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Post #3 1/9/09 2:02:03PM
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aaa9erh8er
Belt Contender
Career record: 165-112
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: 707 CALi
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i enjoyed the topic. well written. as far as fitch goes he did hang with the best so imo that proves he can
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Post #4 1/9/09 2:10:49PM
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jiujitsufreak74
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Career record: 738-406
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: east islip, new york
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Paul Taylor is my number one winning loser for 2008. he truly won me over as a fan with his exciting fights that never leave me touching the back of my seat. ever since the Marcus Davis fight i really started to pay attention tot Taylor, and despite his losses in 2008 he has made a great name for himself. hell, i think his FOTN bonuses alone tripled his salary.
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Post #5 1/9/09 3:44:55PM
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warglory
Heavyweight Champ
Career record: 465-318
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Portland, ME
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Posted by nickcuc547
I don't know about fitch, he proved he is tough as nails but he didn't prove he could hang with the best.
Uh...he did hang with the best. Battling with GSP for 5 rounds to a decision loss qualifies as such.
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Post #6 1/9/09 6:23:02PM
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