Videos of the best Fights of the Year candidates: Mma, Boxing, K-1
Review: 2012-11-10, Rich Franklin vs Cung Le gets four stars thanks to one of the best mma knockouts of the year, (UFC Knockout of the Night). Rich Franklin (29-6-0) entered as the No.10 middleweight in the world while Cung Le (8-2-0) entered as the No.46. Franklin vs Le is the main event of UFC on Fuel TV 6. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-09, Chris John vs Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo has been a classic toe-to-toe fight: exciting, tough and with a tremendous pace, four stars (only the first two rounds have not been very spectacular). Both undefeated, the Indonesian Chris John (47-0-2) entered as the No.3 featherweight in the world while Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (44-0-0) entered as the No.16. John vs Chonlatarn is valid for the WBA Super World featherweight title. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-03, usually a fight like Shinsuke Yamanaka vs Tomas Rojas would get three stars, but thanks to the final knockout this match gets 4 stars: it could be a candidate for Knockout of the Year 2012. The undefeated Shinsuke Yamanaka (16-0-2) entered as the No.2 bantamweight in the world while Tomas Rojas (39-13-1) entered as the No.6. Yamanaka vs Rojas is valid for the WBC bantamweight title (Yamanaka’s second defense). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-03, Anthony Johnson vs DJ Linderman gets four stars thanks to one of the best mma Kos of the year 2012. Anthony Johnson (13-4-0) entered as the No.17 light heavyweight in the world while DJ Linderman (13-3-0) entered as the No.21 heavyweight. Johnson vs Linderman is on the undercard of Andrei Arlovski vs Devin Cole – WSOF 1. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-11-03, great performance and amazing exchanges from the first round: tough and exciting toe-to-toe fight, Sebastien Gauthier vs Rodrigo Guerrero gets four stars! Sebastien Gauthier (22-3-0) entered as the No.36 super bantamweight in the world while Rodrigo Guerrero (17-4-1) entered as the No.16 super flyweight. Gauthier vs Guerrero is on the undercard of Lucian Bute vs Denis Grachev. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-14, astonishing performance by both fighters, amazing pace and one knockdown in the third round: Genji Umeno vs Chan-Hyung Lee seems a classic K-1 Max fight, four stars for one of the best k-1 fights of 2012. Genji Umeno entered the fight with a record of 21-2-0 (he was ranked as the No.9 at Lumpinee Stadium in 2011) while Chan-Hyung Lee had a record of 11-3-1. Umeno vs Lee, superfight during K-1 WGP 2012 Final 16, is on the undercard of Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic vs Randy Blake. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-13, amazing toe-to-toe fight from the first bell, Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado has been a very tough battle with an astonishing performance by both fighters: Compubox punching statistics showed that Rios threw, on average, almost 80 punches per round (30% accuracy rate) compared to Alvarado who threw more than 110 punches per round (22% accuracy rate); Rios vs Alvarado is a candidate for Fight of the Year 2012, five stars! Both undefeated, Brandon Rios (30-0-1) entered as the No.5 light welterweight in the world while Mike Alvarado (33-0-0) entered as the No.7. Rios vs Alvarado is valid for the vacant WBO Latino light welterweight title; undercard of Nonito Donaire vs Toshiaki Nishioka. They also faced each other a second time, on March 30, 2013 (=Rios vs Alvarado II) and a third time on January 24, 2015 (=Alvarado vs Rios III). Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-12, great first round with one knockdown and one of the best knockouts of the year: David Lemieux vs Alvaro Gaona gets four stars! The Canadian David Lemieux (26-2-0) entered as the No.38 middleweight in the world while Alvaro Gaona (11-1-0) entered as the No.61. Lemieux vs Gaona is on the undercard of Adonis Stevenson vs Don George. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-10-06, fantastic knockout in the second round between Marc de Bonte and Murthel Groenhart: one of the best KOs of the year 2012: four stars. Marc de Bonte ranked as the No.5 super light heavyweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 78-9-2 while Murthel Groenhart had a record of 49-14-3. De Bonte vs Groenhart is on the undercard of Remy Bonjasky vs Anderson ‘Braddock’ Silva – GLORY 2 Brussels. Watch the video!
Review: 2012-08-19, the first round between Monchailek Sor. Sommai (red trunks) and Chartchay Kiatyongyuth has not been particularly exciting but in the second period both fighters pick up the pace and begin to throw brutal elbows till the end… This fight has not been as ferocious as the memorable Pidsanu vs Siragnern (five-stars-fight of 2012), but it deserves equally a great rating: four stars! Monchailek Sor. Sommai, 20 years old, entered the fight with a record of 52-13-0 while Chartchay Kiatyongyuth, 21 years old, had a record of 40-10-0. Monchailek vs Chartchay was held at Ladprao Stadium (Bangkok, Thailand). Watch the video!
