Review: 2012-02-25, good fight with one of the best upkick we have ever seen (second round): the UFC Fight of the Night Frankie Edgar vs Benson Henderson gets three stars. Frankie Edgar (14-1-1) entered as the No.1 lightweight in the world while Benson Henderson (15-2-0) entered as the No.3. Edgar vs Henderson is valid for the UFC Lightweight Championship title (Edgar’s fourth defense); main event of UFC 144. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-02-15, good first round with some great exchanges, nice ground and pound in the second period plus an exciting ending of the fight: Jake Ellenberger vs Diego Sanchez, UFC Fight of the Night, is very close to get four stars. Diego Sanchez (23-4-0) entered as the No.10 welterweight in the world while Jake Ellenberger (26-5-0) entered as the No.3. Sanchez vs Ellenberger is the main event of “UFC on Fuel TV”. Watch the video!
Review: 2011-12-10, the first round and the first two minutes of the second round between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida were not spectacular but then the pace picks up and the fight ended with an amazing submission (4 stars for the standing guillotine choke and its effectiveness, one of the best of the year); fighters were awarded “Fight of the Night” honors. Jon Jones (14-1-0) entered as the No.1 light heavyweight in the world while Lyoto Machida (17-2-0) entered as the No.6. Jones vs Machida is the main event of the UFC 140 and is valid for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. Watch the video!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-04-09, pretty good mma fight: Ryan Bader vs Lyoto Machida 2 gets three stars.
In their first fight, on August 4, 2012 Machida had defeated Bader via ko (Lyoto Machida vs Ryan Bader I); this second fight, main event of Bellator 256, is the quarter-final of the Bellator light-heavyweight world grand prix tournament. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-08-21, good fight between Ryan Bader and Vadim Nemkov: it gets three stars.Here you can find the best mma fights of 2019 rated by our users. At the end of every year we post the top 25 fighting with 4 and 5 stars, rated at least eight times.
Clicking on the name of the fighter you can watch and rate the video of the fight (if it is available on the web) and read some info about it.
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-12-29, pretty good fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Quinton Rampage Jackson: it gets three stars.The 43-year-old former Pride, world combat sambo champion and black belt in judo Fedor Emelianenko (two years older than Rampage) entered this fight with a professional mma record of 38-6-0 (76% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.25 heavyweight in the world but he comes off the loss against Ryan Bader (Fedor Emelianenko vs Ryan Bader); before this bout, in 2018, he had beat Frank Mir in April (Fedor Emelianenko vs Frank Mir) and Chael Sonnen in October (Fedor Emelianenko vs Chael Sonnen).
His opponent, the former Ufc and Bellator light-Hw tournament (season 10) champ Quinton Rampage Jackson, has an official record of 38-13-0 (63% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.50 in the same weight class. He lost two consecutive fights between 2017 and 2018, against Muhammed King Mo Lawal (Rampage vs Lawal II) and Chael Sonnen (Quinton Rampage Jackson vs Chael Sonnen), but he came back to win in September 2018 with Wanderlei Silva (Quinton Rampage Jackson vs Wanderlei Silva 4). Fedor vs Rampage is the main event of Bellator 237 (Bellator & Rizin: Japan). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-09-07, we hope to see a rematch between Ryan Bader and Cheick Kongo: it gets two stars.The current Bellator Hw, former light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader entered this fight with a record of 27-5-0 (56% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.7 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Stipe Miocic). He suffered his last loss when he faced Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) since then he has won seven fights defeating Matt Mitrione (Ryan Bader vs Matt Mitrione) and Fedor Emelianenko in his last two (Fedor Emelianenko vs Ryan Bader).
His opponent, the black belt in karate and kendo Cheick Kongo, has a mma record of 30-10-2 (60% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.10 in the same weight class. He lost to Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal in 2015 (Lawal vs Kongo) but then he has won eight bouts beating Timothy Johnson (Cheick Kongo vs Timothy Johnson) and Vitaly Minakov in his last two (Vitaly Minakov vs Cheick Kongo 2). Bader vs Kongo, main event of Bellator 226, is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title (Bader’s first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
‘Best of Mma’, is the annual ranking of the best mma fights of the year 2019 (best Ufc fights and other promotions), matches rated by AllTheBestFights.
Clicking on the names of the fighters you can watch and rate the video of the fight (if it is available on the web) and read some info about it. However, you do not find a link for all the mma matches because we create a single post just for the 4 and 5 stars fights or for the most important ones.
Comment this post if you want to suggest your favorite mma fight and to help us creating the best mma ranking of all the most spectacular fights!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-10-12, some good exchanges between Ryan Bader and Matt Mitrione but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The black belt in Bjj, Bellator light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader entered this fight with a professional mma record of 25-5-0 (56% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.5 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Daniel Cormier). He lost to Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) but then he has won five bouts beating Phil Davis (Davis vs Bader 2), Linton Vassell (Ryan Bader vs Linton Vassell) and Muhammed King Mo Lawal in his last three (Ryan Bader vs Muhammed King Mo Lawal).
His opponent, the black belt in karate Matt Mitrione, has an official record of 13-5-0 (85% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.13 in the same weight class. He lost two consecutive bouts between 2015 and 2016, against Ben Rothwell (Rothwell vs Mitrione) and Travis Browne (Browne vs Mitrione), but then he has won four fights beating Fedor Emelianenko (Fedor Emelianenko vs Matt Mitrione) and Roy Nelson in his last two (Roy Nelson vs Matt Mitrione 2). Bader vs Mitrione, main event of Bellator 207, is the semifinal of the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix tournament. Watch the video and rate this fight!
