UFC Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights on Spike TV Tonight

by Kid Nate on Jul 5, 2009 9:35 PM EDT in MMA News

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Tonight at 9pm EDT on Spike TV is the first installment. The rest will air:

Monday, July 6 at 9:00pm ET (Part 2)
Tuesday, July 7 at 9:00pm ET (Part 3)
Wednesday, July 8 at 9:00pm ET (Part 4)
Saturday, July 11 at 9:00pm ET (Part 5)

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Really? Interesting, I had no idea.

Due to Cheick Kongo's atrocious takedown defense....
Walla walla walla, I’m an idiot

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by ufc4 on Jul 5, 2009 7:46 PM EDT reply actions

I’ll just wait for the list of fights to appear online – too much revisionism. I’ve probably seen most of them, and what I haven’t, I can find online. Frank/Tito is one of the best fights from any org, yet I can’t see them exclude it, and then probably put Griffin/Bonnar at #1.

/snob

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by Scott C. Broussard on Jul 5, 2009 9:06 PM EDT reply actions

They need to show more of the fights.

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by Eugene Schelfaut on Jul 5, 2009 9:18 PM EDT reply actions

Something about this countdown really bothers me . . .

I cant figure out what it is. Maybe its the fact that War Machine is involved in any list that is suppossed to be a list of historical importance to mma. For some reason, not a single fight they showed filled me with any sense of awe that made me think they were of epic importance. I compare this with the USA Today/BE Top 50 list and its not even close. Every fight on there makes me think “Thats important” or “If i had to write a book about the history of mma, i would need to talk about that fight”.

Maybe its the lack of scope though. Most of the fights were from within the last 5 years. Almost all the fighters careers are still going on. Its really hard to look at something in perspective when its still going on.

Also, GSP-Serra 1 got totally snubbed. That is arguably the greatest upset in mma history. It should be top 10.

by Rabbit915 on Jul 5, 2009 10:40 PM EDT reply actions

there were some other fights in there that got short shrift too

Like Newton vs Miletich. It pains me that that fight is dumped down there with War Machine.

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by Kid Nate on Jul 5, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions

The plebs hath spoken.

Keep firing Assholes!

Out out, you demons of stupidity!

by Ubernoober on Jul 5, 2009 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I liketed it, I liketed it. lol

I know all the fights shown weren’t “epic” but man, we’re talking about 100 fights here. The War Machine fight really was good too so I’m not pissed about it. What I’m happy about is that they’re actually talking about and showing fighters that aren’t even in the UFC anymore.

lol at the Affliction blur on Chucks walkout shirt.

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by xFenixKnightx on Jul 5, 2009 11:51 PM EDT reply actions

There have been better fights of course, but this program was meant to fill in the new MMA fans on what they’ve been missing all these years. Consider the show UFC 101.

by jporter on Jul 5, 2009 11:52 PM EDT reply actions

Consider the show UFC 101.

UFC 101 is going to be 10 times better than this crap with Penn/Florian and Silva/Forrest. Yes, I know what you meant.

Due to Cheick Kongo's atrocious takedown defense....
Walla walla walla, I’m an idiot

Some people might say that winning a fight makes you a better fighter but I don’t agree with that.- BlueberryMuffin

by ufc4 on Jul 5, 2009 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t know, it seems like a good idea but with all the fights they have basically banned from the show it just doesn’t seem to have much meaning. When they have fights like Jardine/Liddell which was only interesting in the context of Chuck being pushed further down the ladder it just makes it seem like they were really reaching to come up with 100 great fights when it should be easy.

Due to Cheick Kongo's atrocious takedown defense....
Walla walla walla, I’m an idiot

Some people might say that winning a fight makes you a better fighter but I don’t agree with that.- BlueberryMuffin

by ufc4 on Jul 6, 2009 12:00 AM EDT reply actions