Top 10 UFC Fights (according to Sports Illustrated)
With a slow news day so far, here is a list of the top 10 UFC fights of all-time according to Sports Illustrated:
10. Nick Diaz vs. Diego Sanchez
The Ultimate Fighter 2 Live Finale; Nov. 5, 20059. Clay Guida vs. Tyson Griffin
UFC 72; June 16, 20078. Georges St. Pierre vs. B.J. Penn
UFC 58; March 4, 20067. Tito Oritz vs. Forrest Griffin
UFC 59; April 15, 20066. Kendall Grove vs. Ed Herman
The Ultimate Fighter 3 Live Finale; June 24, 20065. Diego Sanchez vs. Karo Parisyan
UFC Fight Night; Aug. 17, 20064. Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg
UFC 52; April 16, 20053. Randy Couture vs. Chuck Liddell
UFC 43; June 6, 20032. Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar
The Ultimate Fighter 1 Live Finale; April 9, 20051. Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn
UFC 63; Sept. 23, 2006
What do you think of the list overall? What fights don’t deserve to be on it and which ones should have been included?
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Nick Diaz and Karo should be on there. Forrest vs. Tito? Uhhh… no. I think they should have gone a bit farther back when making this list.
The SI article is a typical example of mainstream America’s clueless fascination with the UFC. They make it seem the UFC did not exist before 2003.
Other notable matches they missed up upon:
Tito Ortiz vs Frank Shamrock (1999)
Royce Gracie vs Dan Severn (1994)
Royce Gracie vs Kimo Leopoldo (1994)
and many more!
I agree with both of you. The list does not go back far enough when looking at the best fights. I think Forrest-Tito and Grove-Herman both shouldn’t be on the list. I think Tito-Frank 1 definitely should be as well.
Diego Sanchez and Karo Perisian; Mark Colman v. Pete Williams(What a knock out) Randy Coutour v. Tito Ortiz; Coutour v. Vitor Belfort 1; a newer fight that I love is Pete Sell v. Scott Smith; or go old school with Oleg Taktarov v. David “TANK” Abbot. I think SI needs to get some true old-school fans to write their articles about the sport or if they truley want to stay on top of it.
Sam Stout v. Spencer Fisher II
Mark Coleman vs Maurice Smith
royce vs ken
What about Coutour Vs. Silvia?
That fight was unbelievable…
Randy Vs. Big Tim… Why is this not top 5? Top 2? 43 year old Randy? MMA Hero.
Even though I loved the domination by Couture I think that will fail to make a list like this because it was so one sided and it went to a decision. The fights that make these are typically back and forth wars but I agree, Couture vs. Sylvia definitely could have made this list.
Those are the top 10 fights……give me a break! Ortiz vs Silva, Coleman vs Severn, Couture vs Maurice Smith. I could go further but those are just a couple of examples of “before the timeline” SI used. The had a couple good ones listed but they really have to do their research next time they decide to come out with a top 10 list.