Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Top 10 Pride Fights Ever

In no particular order:

*Mirko Filipovic vs Fedor Emelianenko (August 28, 2005) - Not an overly close fight, but it had that big fight feel to it and CroCop pushed Fedor the whole time.
*Royce Gracie vs Kazushi Sakuraba (May 1, 2000) - How two guys in this day and age can go 90 minutes and still be willing to go longer is beyond me.
*Quinton Jackson vs Wanderlei Silva 2 (October 31, 2004) - These guys went toe-to-toe the first round and the hilight reel KO was just the icing on the cake.
*Kazushi Sakuraba vs Carlos Newton (June 24, 1998) - The first great submission, mat battle ever in Pride. Very evenly matched.
*Don Frye vs Ken Shamrock (February 24, 2002) - Wasn't excited heading into this fight cause I thought both guys were over the hill, but this was a war.
*Josh Barnett vs Rodrigo Nogueira (September 20, 2006) - Couple nice on the feet exchanges but mostly a ground war with both guys going for submissions throughout.
*Bob Sapp vs Rodrigo Noguiera (August 28, 2002) - Most people remember this fight for the one slam, but the whole fight was excellent.
*Don Frye vs Yoshihiro Takayama (June 23, 2002) - No technique, just good old-fashioned slugfest with two guys swinging as hard as possible.
*Takanori Gomi vs Tatsuya Kawajiri (September 25, 2005) - The best fight on an amazing card. Both guys went to war on the feet.
*Takanori Gomi vs Nick Diaz (February 24, 2007) - Unfortunately most people remember this fight not for how good it was, but of the Diaz failed drug test.

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