What fights have you watched today?

Jones vs Gustaffson.

For the first time Jones looked very beatable.

Gus came razor close to taking this one although I do feel the right man won in the end.

 

Gus 1&2, Jones 3,4&5

Although rounds 1 and 3 could have gone to the other man imo.

 

Melendez vs Sanchez.

Melendez wins the first two rounds but then late in the third Diego heavily drops Gilbert and follows up with a choke attempt with Melendez survives.

The last 20 seconds are basically a rocky film.
Gilbert edges out the decision to add to his ATG ledger.

 

Cain vs JDS 3.

Cain underlines his goat credentials as he absorbs the early power of Junior before again walking him down and out striking him. A failed guillotine attempt sees Junior unable to return to his feet as Cain quickly dived on him to finish it in the last.

Cain looks unbeatable now.

 

Machida vs Munoz.

Machida looks to kick-start his career by moving down to MW and he looks incredible as he ends it in the first.

 

Belfort vs Henderson.

Vitor proves he's an ATG with arguably the best year of his whole career.

Belfort opens up early and puts a real beat down on Henderson. Dan gets back to his feet before a head kick sends him back down again for a first round finish.

 

Lawler vs Mcdonald

Lawler steps up to the plate as a potential ATG WW with a big victory here to secure a title shot.

He was an aggressive but failed MW contender before dropping back down and wins over Kosheck and now Macdonald pave the way for Robbie.

 

GSP vs Hendricks.

The most danger GSP has been in for years as we see him exchange rounds with the big hitting Hendricks.

Eventually GSP secures victory with a strong finish as he edges a razor thin decision.

 

Johnson knocks out Benavidez to secure his place as an ATG by destroying the number 2 in his division.

 

Silva vs Weidman 2

Aftsr the first it seemed Silva cost himself victory by showboating, he came here determined to prove that he was still the best MW today.

But the first round again shows that Silva is not the man he once was as again Weidman is able to out grapple him and hurt him with big shots.

The second again sees an inconclusive ending as Silva begins the second round better, as he did last time, and again a freak ending sees Weidman the winner as he goes for a hard leg kick and snaps his shin in half.

Weidman proves he's a great fighter but I don't think he'd have done a prime Anderson.

 

As of the year end 2013 I have the following atg ranking

1 Georges St Pierre
2 Anderson Silva
3 Fedor Emilianenko
4 Jose Aldo
5 Jon Jones
6 BJ Penn
7 Demetrious Johnson
8 Dominic Cruz
9 Matt Hughes
10 Cain Velasquez
11 Kazushi Sakuraba
12 Chris Weidman
13 Frankie Edgar
14 Dan Henderson
15 Mauricio Rua
16 Rodrigo Nogueira
17 Wanderlei Silva
18 Takanori Gomi
19 Lyoto Machida
20 Gilbert Melendez
21 Urijah Faber
22 Anthony Pettis
23 Junior Dos Santos
24 Kid Yamamoto
25 Rampage Jackson
26 Mirko Filipovich
27 Chuck Liddell
28 Jake Shields
29 Randy Couture
30 Daniel Cormier
31 Robbie Lawler
32 Rich Franklin
33 Johnny Hendricks
34 Royce Gracie
35 Shinya Aoki
36 Luke Rockhold
37 Benson Henderson
38 Fabricio Werdum
39 Rashad Evans
40 Gegard Mousasi
41 Alistair Overeem
42 Frank Shamrock
43 Carlos Condit
44 Jacare Souza
45 Tito Ortiz
46 Renan Barao
47 Nick Diaz
48 Miguel Torres
49 Alexandre Nogueira
50 Sean Sherk
51 Josh Barnett
52 Paulo Filho
53 Hayato Sakurai
54 Vitor Belfort
55 Evan Tanner
56 Frank Mir
57 Mike Brown
58 Joseph Benavidev

 

Watched the main fights from 2014 but didn't have my phone with me to do any write ups.

But this is my ranking at the end of the year

1 Georges St Pierre
2 Anderson Silva
3 Fedor Emilianenko
4 Jose Aldo
5 Demetrious Johnson
6 Jon Jones
7 BJ Penn
8 Dominic Cruz
9 Matt Hughes
10 Cain Velasquez
11 Kazushi Sakuraba
12 Chris Weidman
13 Daniel Cormier
14 Frankie Edgar
15 Dan Henderson
16 Mauricio Rua
17 Rodrigo Nogueira
18 Wanderlei Silva
19 Takanori Gomi
20 Lyoto Machida
21 Anthony Pettis
22 Urijah Faber
23 Gilbert Melendez
24 Junior Dos Santos
25 Kid Yamamoto
26 Rampage Jackson
27 Mirko Filipovich
28 Chuck Liddell
29 Fabricio Werdum
30 Jake Shields
31 Randy Couture
32 Jacare Souza
33 Robbie Lawler
34 Rich Franklin
35 Johnny Hendricks
36 Shinya Aoki
37 Royce Gracie
38 Luke Rockhold
39 Rafael Dos Anjos
40 T.J. Dillshaw
41 Benson Henderson
42 Rashad Evans
43 Gegard Mousasi
44 Alistair Overeem
45 Tyrone Woodley
46 Frank Shamrock
47 Tito Ortiz
48 Renan Barao
49 Sean Sherk
50 Carlos Condit
51 Alexandre Nogueira
52 Nick Diaz
53 Miguel Torres
54 Josh Barnett
55 Paulo Filho
56 Vitor Belfort
57 Yoel Romero
58 Frank Mir
Mike Brown
Joseph Benavidev

 

Onto 2015