MMA Greatest

As a relative newbie to the sport, what fights would any of you recommend that would get me into it and become a fan?

 

watch as much pride as possible

 

go to youtube and click onto the highlights of Fedor, you'll be amazed at what this guy did in his prime. I'be been watching MMA for about 4-5 years and thought I saw everything but that video showed me why people make such a big deal about him.

 

I'm assuming you have seen many from the UFC so I'll try to dig deep. I wouldn't consider my list "The Greatest" because I'm still a newbie but these are some favorites of mine.

Fedor/Nog 1 and 3
Hong Man Choi/Don Frye
Fedor/Rogers
Nog/Bob Sapp
Silva/Jackson 2
Rua/Jackson (a nice beat down.. Rua breaks Rampages ribs with knee strikes in the clinch)
Sakuraba (Another pro wrestler like Lesnar )
Royce and Renzo Gracie

Try to download the Pride Decade dvd. Their are many other fights and everyone's view will be subjective. For instance, I like watching GSP and can watch his rematch with Penn over and over.

 

I watched a brilliant Pride fight recently:

Nick Diaz v Takanori Gomi

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Watch PRIDE FC. Stay away from UFC fights or you could become a zuffa zombie.

 

Does anyone think that Nick Diaz's pot consumption helped numb some pain during his fight with Gomi? A doctor believed this to be true apparently.

 

Cant find the full fight for some reason but Frye Vs Takayama is a classic, not so much for skill

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^^My bad.. This was the Frye fight I was referring to.

 

Could be. Dudes got a good chin though. I remember watching that live. Diaz took some licks!

 

By far the most entertaining MMA fight of ALL TIMES. This fight was pure carnage. It never gets boring to watch.

 

This. If you want a link to all the PRIDE fights PM me. :thumbsup

 

i agree mate, its the epitome of a war, ****in ace

 

Mate even the shows were far better in pride than the UFC, huge crowd (over double the UFC), huge fireworks, huge show.

PRIDE ENTRANCE - plus youve got the screaming lady + its great to see a fighter focused entrance/show with the fighters background.

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UFC ENTRANCE
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Best entrance in the world!!!!!!! Seriously i get tingles when i watch PRIDE shows and you see the fighters entering one by one. Its like the ultimate gladiatorial experience for me. Completely pistol whips the UFC.