Review: also with fighters not very popular, in Thailand is not so hard to find good muay thai athletes and spectacular fights. This is the case of the fight between Thanonchai Tor Sangtiennoi (red shorts) and Payaknoi Romsithong, five intensive round, good pace and good technique throughout the fight, it won’t be the muay thai fight of the year but it is one of the best of 2011. Watch the video!
The “UFC on Versus: Kampmann vs Sanchez” has not been a very exciting MMA event, starting from the main event Martin Kampmann vs Diego Sanchez, as well as in the other fighting. The only three-stars-fight has been Brian Bowles and Damacio Page. This is our ratings of “UFC on Versus: Kampmann vs Sanchez”:
The best MMA event of the week should be “Strikeforce Feijao vs Henderson” scheduled for Saturday, March 5. The main fight will be Dan “Hendo” Henderson vs Rafael “Feijão” Cavalcante and will be valid for the Strikeforce light heavyweight championship. This fight night should be very exciting also for the presence of Melvin Manhoef, who will face Tim Kennedy, and another world title between Marloes Coenen and Liz Carmouche that will fight for the Strikeforce womens welterweight championship. This Strikeforce event will be broadcast live on Showtime (10 pm ET / PT, delayed on the West Coast).
Video preview of Strikeforce Feijao vs Henderson:
Tonight there will be another great mma event with his main fight between Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann. Like the last Ultimate Fighting Championship, two fights of the “UFC on Versus: Sanchez vs Kampmann” will be broadcast live streaming on facebook: Danny Castillo vs Joe Stevenson, Steve Cantwell vs Cyrille Diabate. To see the fight you need just to be a fan of the UFC’s official page on facebook (scheduled Mar. 3 at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT). Here is the complete fight card and the results of the weigh-in (lbs.):
Martin Kampmann (171) vs Diego Sanchez (171)
Mark Munoz (186) vs C.B. Dollaway (185)
Alessio Sakara (186) vs Chris Weidman (186)
Review: 2011-02-26, exciting fight with three knockdowns between Brandon Rios and Miguel Acosta; at the moment it is the most beautiful boxing fight of 2011 and could be a candidate for Fight of the Year 2011. Miguel Acosta (28-3-2) was the holder of the WBA World lightweight title, won in 2009 against Urbano Antillon and then defended last year versus Paulus Moses (both fighting won by ko); while the undefeated Brandon Rios (26-0-1) seven years younger than Acosta, it was the first chance to became world champion. Acosta vs Rios is valid for the WBA World lightweight title. Watch the video!
Review: 2011-02-19, Montiel seems confused while Donaire begins immediately with quick and heavy punches…the bout was spectacular, perhaps too fast, with one of the best knockouts of the year: four stars. Fernando Montiel entered the fight with a record of 44-2-2 while Nonito Donaire had a record of 25-1-0. Donaire vs Montiel is valid for the WBC and WBO bantamweight titles. Watch the video!
Review: 2002-11-23, after the first fight between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward, it was immediately organized a second fight between the “Irish” and the “Thunder”, both to give the opportunity for revenge to Gatti and because anyone would want to see again a spectacular fight as the first one. Thus, six months later, here we are are with Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward 2, which didn’t disappoint the expectations of the fans and was certainly another very exciting fight; this time Gatti managed to overturn the result… Watch the video!
Review: 2002-05-18, Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward 1, has been the Ring Magazine fight of the year of 2002, a real boxing war between two very different fighters. Arturo Gatti, that was younger than 7 years, was one of the most beautiful boxers to see for his technique, while Micky Ward was a boxer that wanted to use his physical strength and had a jaw of iron. Someone has labeled Micky Ward vs Arturo Gatti 1 as “The Fight of the Century” and therefore we understand why after this fight they will face in two other fighting (Gatti vs Ward 2 six months later, and Gatti vs Ward 3 in 2003). Watch the video!
‘Best of Boxing’, is the annual ranking of the best boxing fights of the year 2001, matches rated by AllTheBestFights.
Clicking on the names of the boxers 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 boxing 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 boxing fight and to help us creating the best boxing ranking of all the most spectacular fights!
Review: 2001-07-13, we had rated this fight four stars but after watching it again, thanks to the comments of “Cleming81” and “mattsnow81”, we have changed our rating in five (on February 6, 2015) because Micky Ward vs Emanuel Augustus was an absolute war thanks to a tremendous pace and some amazing exchanges in which both boxers showed huge heart (in the comments you can see how we rate it round by round).
Micky Ward, one of the most popular boxers despite not being very technical, entered this fight with a professional boxing record of 36-10-0 (27 knockouts) while his opponent, Emanuel Augustus Burton, had not an exceptional record, 24-17-4 (12 knockouts) and close his career with 38 victories, 34 defeats and 6 draws but he faced some of the best boxers in those years: John John Molina, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Carlos Wilfredo Vilches, David Diaz, Ruslan Provodnikov, etc. This bout has been the Ring Magazine fight of the year of 2001, but there were other three exciting battles in that year that we rated with five stars: De La Hoya vs Gatti, Wonjongkam vs Tunacao, Pacquiao vs Ledwaba. Watch the video!
