Top 5 Canadian UFC performances

Canada day today and so my blog today is the top 5 most impressive performance in the UFC by Canadians. This list could easily be 5 Georges St. Pierre fights so I capped him off at only his two best. In no particular order

*Georges St. Pierre over BJ Penn at UFC 94. This fight was a bout between two of the top four pound-for-pound guys in the sport. It was expected to be a fairly close fight. So what happened? GSP beat the living piss out of Penn for 20 minutes and made him look like a guy who had never fought before. A bit of the victory was taken away by the grease scandal afterwards (which for the record, had NO effect on the fight) but GSP make BJ his bitch that night and then some.

*Carlos Newton over Pat Miletich at UFC 31. Pat Miletich had won 7 straight in the UFC by this point and while Newton was acknowledged as a good fighter, not too many people expected him to win the fight. Instead Newton caught Miletich in one of my alltime favorite submission victories and captured the Welterweight Title in one is generally considered to be one of the best UFC shows ever.

*Sam Stout over Spencer Fisher at UFC 58. Fisher took this fight on short notice and I believe that is the only reason Stout won this fight. Fisher at that time was clearly a much better fighter than Stout. But Stout took the most of the opportunity and looked outstanding as he and Fisher had one of the better fights of the year that night.

*Georges St. Pierre over Matt Hughes at UFC 65. I think everybody knew that GSP would someday be holding UFC gold, they just didn't know when. GSP dominated this fight over Hughes who was 12-1 in his last 13 inside the octagon up to that point. GSP destroyed Hughes and won the title for the first time before being shocked by Matt Serra a few months later.

*Gary Goodridge over Paul Herrera at UFC 8. This 13 second massacre was one of the first hilight reel knockouts from the early UFC events. It's rumored that Herrera made racist comments towards Goodridge before the fight and Goodridge made him pay by catching him in the crucifix position and unloading a barrage of unobstructed elbows to Herrera's face that knocked him silly.