Here you can find the best mma fights of 2015 rated by our users (ranking updated monthly). We post the top 25 fighting with 4 and 5 stars rated at least eight times.
Clicking on the name of the fighter you can watch and rate the video of the fight (if it is available on the web) and read some info about it.
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-28, good exchanges between Tim Means and Dhiego Lima: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).Tim Means entered this fight with a professional mma record of 22-6-1 (82% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.38 welterweight in the world while his opponent, Dhiego Lima, has an official record of 10-2-0 (70% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.69 in the same weight class. Both fighters suffered their last defeat in 2014: Means lost to Neil Magny (=Means vs Magny) while Lima was beat by Eddie Gordon (=Gordon vs Lima). After losing the American has won two bouts, against Hernani Perpetuo and Marcio Alexandre, while the Brazilian defeated Jorge Antonio Cezario de Oliveira. Means vs Lima is on the undercard of Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano– UFC 184. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-28, great start and spectacular finish: Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano it’s the first mma fight of the year 2015 to get four stars (UFC Performance of the Night).Both undefeated, the black belt in judo and former Strikeforce Bw champion Ronda Rousey entered this fight with a perfect mma record of 10-0-0 (100% finishing rate) and she is ranked as the No.1 women’s bantamweight in the world while her opponent, Cat Zingano, has an official record of 9-0-0 (89% finishing rate) and she entered as the No.4 in the same weight class. Rousey fought twice in 2014 beating Sara McMann (=Rousey vs McMann) and Alexis Davis (in just 16 seconds, Rousey vs Davis) while Zingano fought just once defeating Amanda Nunes (=Zingano vs Nunes). The only common opponent faced by Ronda and Cat was Miesha Tate: ‘Rowdy’ beat her in just one round in 2012 (mma Fight of the Year candidate Rousey vs Tate I) and in three rounds in 2013, both times thanks to her signature armbar submission (=Rousey vs Tate II), while ‘Alpha’ Zingano defeated Miesha by tko in three rounds (4-stars-fight, Tate vs Zingano). Rousey vs Zingano, main event of Ufc 184, is valid for the Ufc women’s bantamweight title (held by Rousey). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-28, good exchanges between Tony Ferguson and Gleison Tibau: it gets three stars (UFC Performance of the Night).The TUF 13 winner (The Ultimate Fighter) Tony Ferguson entered this fight with a pro mma record of 17-3-0 (82% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.19 lightweight in the world; he suffered his last defeat in 2012 when he faced Michael Johnson, since then he has won four consecutive bouts, the last one against Abel Trujillo (=Ferguson vs Trujillo).
His opponent, the black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Gleison Tibau, has a record of 33-10-0 (52% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.21 in the same weight class; he lost his last fight against Michael Johnson as well but after losing he came back to win collecting three consecutive victories. He has already fought in 2015 beating Norman Parke fourty days ago (=Tibau vs Parke). Ferguson vs Tibau is on the undercard of Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano – UFC 184. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-02-28, spectacular finish between Josh Koscheck and Jake Ellenberger: it is very close to get four stars (UFC Performance of the Night).Josh Koscheck entered this fight with a mma record of 17-8-0 (59% finishing rate) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since November 16, 2013 when he was defeated by Tyron Woodley (=Koscheck vs Woodley), before this bout he had already lost twice: against Robbie Lawler in February 2013 (=Koscheck vs Lawler) and against Johny Hendricks in 2012 (=Koscheck vs Hendricks).
His opponent, Jake Ellenberger, has a record of 29-9-0 (79% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.19 welterweight in the world but he lost his last three bouts as well: he was defeated by Rory MacDonald (=Ellenberger vs MacDonald), Robbie Lawler (=Lawler vs Ellenberger) and Kelvin Gastelum (=Ellenberger vs Gastelum). Koscheck vs Ellenberger is on the undercard of Ronda Rousey vs Cat Zingano – UFC 184. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-01-31, disappointing fight between Tyron Woodley and Kelvin Gastelum: it gets two stars.Tyron Woodley entered this fight with a pro mma record of 14-3-0 (71% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.4 welterweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Robbie Lawler); he fought three times in 2014 defeating Carlos Condit (=Condit vs Woodley) and Dong Hyun Kim (=Woodley vs Kim) but between these two bouts he lost to Rory MacDonald (=MacDonald vs Woodley).
His opponent, the undefeated Tuf 17 winner Kelvin Gastelum, has a perfect record of 10-0-0 (70% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.12 in the same weight class; he fought three times in 2014 as well, beating Rick Story, Nicholas Musoke (=Gastelum vs Musoke) and Jake Ellenberger (=Ellenberger vs Gastelum). Woodley vs Gastelum was originally scheduled as a welterweight bout but Kelvin weighed in ten pounds over the limit of 170 lbs, so he was fined 30 percent of his purse for the infraction; this fight is on the undercard of Anderson Silva vs Nick Diaz – UFC 183. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-01-31, pretty good fight between Miesha Tate and Sara McMann: it gets three stars.The former Strikeforce women’s Bw champion Miesha Tate entered this fight with a mma record of 15-5-0 (60% finishing rate) and she is ranked as the No.5 women’s bantamweight in the world; she lost two consecutive bouts in 2013, against Cat Zingano (4-stars-fight Tate vs Zingano) and the rematch against #1 Ufc champion Ronda Rousey (=Rousey vs Tate 2). After this fight she came back to win defeating Liz Carmouche (=Tate vs Carmouche) and Rin Nakai (=Tate vs Nakai).
Her opponent, Sara McMann, has an official record of 8-1-0 (50% finishing rate) and she entered as the No.7 in the same weight class, she suffered his only defeat last year when she faced Ronda Rousey (=Rousey vs McMann); after this bout she beat Lauren Murphy. Tate vs McMann is on the undercard of Anderson Silva vs Nick Diaz – UFC 183. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-01-18, some good single shots between Uriah Hall and Ron Stallings but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The black belt in karate Uriah Hall entered this fight with a mma record of 9-4-0 (78% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.26 middleweight in the world, he lost two consecutive fights via split decision in 2013, against Kelvin Gastelum (final of the The Ultimate Fighter 17 tournament, Hall vs Gastelum) and John Howard (=Hall vs Howard) but then he came back to win beating Chris Leben and Thiago Santos (=Hall vs Santos).
His opponent, Ron Stallings, has an official record of 12-6-0 (100% finishing rate) and he comes off the loss against Tim Williams at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 43; he is at his Ufc debut. Hall vs Stallings is on the undercard of Conor McGregor vs Dennis Siver – UFC Fight Night 59. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review: 2014-12-13, nice and tough fight between Junior dos Santos and Stipe Miocic: it gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night). The black belt in Bjj and former Ufc Hw champion Junior dos Santos entered this fight with a professional mma record of 16-3-0 (87% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.3 heavyweight in the world, he has fought twice in 2013 beating Mark Hunt (=dos Santos vs Hunt) but then he lost to #1 Cain Velasquez in their third fight (=Velasquez vs dos Santos 3).
His opponent, Stipe Miocic, has an official record of 12-1-0 (75% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.9 in the same weight class, he suffered his only defeat in 2012 when he faced Stefan Struve (=Struve vs Miocic); after this bout he has won three consecutive fights, the last one against Fabio Maldonado (=Miocic vs Maldonado). ‘Cigano’ dos Santos vs Miocic is the main event of “UFC on Fox 13”. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Review: 2014-12-12, fight not particularly good between Daron Cruickshank and KJ Noons: it gets two stars as soon as possible. The black belt in tae-kwon-do Daron Cruickshank entered this fight with a mma record of 16-5-0 (62% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.58 lightweight in the world while his opponent, the black belt in kenpo karate KJ Noons, has an official record of 13-7-0 (69% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he entered as the No.61 welterweight. Cruickshank vs Noons is on the undercard of Carla Esparza vs Rose Namajunas – UFC Tuf 20 Finale. Watch the video and rate this fight!
