Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-03-11, tough exchanges and good finish: the mma fight Bibiano Fernandes vs John Lineker gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
Lineker vs Fernandes, co-main event of ‘ONE Championship: Lights Out’, is valid for the ONE bantamweight title; undercard of Thanh Le vs Garry Tonon. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-12-03, Sergio Pettis vs Kyoji Horiguchi gets four stars thanks to a spectacular finish: this is one of the best mma fights of the year 2021!
Horiguchi vs Pettis is the main event of Bellator 272 and it is valid for the Bellator bantamweight title (Pettis’ first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2021-05-07, good performance by both fighters: the mma fight Juan Archuleta vs Sergio Pettis gets three stars.
Pettis vs Archuleta, main event of Bellator 258, is valid for the Bellator bantamweight title (Archuleta’s first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2020-07-24, some good single shots between Sergio Pettis and Ricky Bandejas but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-08-02, good fight between Eddie Alvarez and Eduard Folayang: it gets three stars.The former Ufc and Bellator Lw champion Eddie Alvarez entered this fight with a professional mma record of 29-7-0 (79% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.29 welterweight in the world but he comes off two consecutive losses, against Dustin Poirier in 2018 (Eddie Alvarez vs Dustin Poirier 2) and Timofey Nastyukhin in 2019 (Eddie Alvarez vs Timofey Nastyukhin); before these bouts, in 2017, he had beat Justin Gaethje (Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje).
His opponent, the black belt in wushu and former One Lw champ Eduard Folayang, has an official record of 21-7-0 (38% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.112 in the same weight class. He lost to Shinya Aoki in March 2019 (Eduard Folayang vs Shinya Aoki 2) but before this fight, in 2018, he had won over Kharun Atlangeriev, Aziz Pahrudinov and Amir Khan. Alvarez vs Folayang is the semi-final of the One Fc lightweight world grand prix tournament; undercard of Martin Nguyen vs Koyomi Matsushima – ONE FC 100. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-03-31, pretty good finish between Eddie Alvarez and Timofey Nastyukhin but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The former Ufc and Bellator Lw champion Eddie Alvarez entered this fight with a professional record of 29-6-0 (79% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.5 lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Khabib Nurmagomedov) but he comes off the loss against Dustin Poirier (Eddie Alvarez vs Dustin Poirier 2); before this bout, in 2017, he had beat Justin Gaethje (Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje).
His opponent, Timofey Nastyukhin, has a mma record of 12-4-0 (83% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.194 in the same weight class. He fought twice last year beating Amir Khan and losing to Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev. Alvarez vs Nastyukhin is the quarter-final of the One Fc lightweight world grand prix tournament: undercard of Eduard Folayang vs Shinya Aoki 2 – ONE FC 93. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-01-26, good start between Fedor Emelianenko and Ryan Bader: it gets three stars.The 42-year-old former Pride, world combat sambo champion and black belt in judo Fedor Emelianenko entered this fight with a professional mma record of 38-5-0 (76% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.19 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Daniel Cormier). ‘The Last Emperor’ lost to Matt Mitrione in 2017 (Fedor Emelianenko vs Matt Mitrione) but he came back to win in 2018 against Frank Mir (Fedor Emelianenko vs Frank Mir) and Chael Sonnen (Fedor Emelianenko vs Chael Sonnen).
His opponent, the Bellator light-Hw champion and Tuf 8 tournament winner Ryan Bader (seven years younger than Fedor), has an official record of 26-5-0 (54% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.5 in the same weight class. He suffered his last loss when he faced Anthony Johnson in 2016 (Johnson vs Bader) since then he has won six fights defeating Muhammed King Mo Lawal (Ryan Bader vs Muhammed King Mo Lawal) and Matt Mitrione in 2018 (Ryan Bader vs Matt Mitrione). Fedor vs Bader, main event of Bellator 214, is the final of the Bellator Heavyweight World Grand Prix tournament and it is valid for the Bellator heavyweight title; they also fight each other a second time on February 4th, 2023 (Ryan Bader vs Fedor Emelianenko 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Selection of the best boxing, mma, k-1 and muay thai videos from the world’s most important fights of the week 30: (Mon-Sun) from July 23, 2018 to July 29, 2018.
Boxing Fight of the Week: Dereck Chisora vs Carlos Takam
Mma Fight of the Week: Eddie Alvarez vs Dustin Poirier 2
Mma Knockout of the Week: Jose Aldo vs Jeremy Stephens
‘Best of Mma’, is the annual ranking of the best mma fights of the year 2018 (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.
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