Anderson didnt do anything this year!

Better fighters = Machida & Silva. Better boxers = Pac and Mosley.

Are Machida and Silva really better “fighters”? Who would you want watching your back in a bar room brawl, it’d be Pac-man every time for me! By the time Machida and AS had finished prancing around the cops would have arrived and arrested everyone involved without those two throwing a punch! At least Pac-man would get stuck in!

Do you really think Machida and Silva would dance around some nitwit in a bar with a popped collar and a barbed wire tattoo around his bicep? Because that’s the kind of dude who starts bar fights. Either one of those guys would knock that douchebag out six times before the cops showed up.

I would like to have Brett Rogers and Rampage with me in a bar room brawl… Manny Paqcuiao is too small ;P
there are no weight classes on the streets

Clearly my remarks were tongue in cheek! What I objected to was Pac-man and moseley not being referred to as “fighters”, so I used the bar brawl as a comic scenario to emphasise my point! Clearly they are all fighters as they all compete in combat sports.

So many people on this topic are trying to turn it into a debate about which is best, boxing or MMA, when that’s not what the artice is about. The article is about who has acheived the most in their respective combat sports discipline this year and that is clearly Pac-Man!

K-Dog-

Here here!

In a street fight any MMA fighter would kill a boxer

Robert-

Could Kalib Starnes kill Roy Jones? You’re clearly unbiased and I’m sure that I can trust your solid opinion since you’ve obviously taken so much into account here, as evidenced by your impossibly brilliant analysis. Only curious.

Ignorant.

Lol skeleton

Manny had a great year, and will win. In a bar fight I would want help from Machida. Then again, I may choose Manny, because I can always grab his ankles and swing him like a bat at the other people.

Who would you rather see fight Rampage if you’re a casual MMA fan… a former champion? Or the undefeated current champion, whom everyone is talking about, that just completely destroyed that former champion? Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Rashad versus Rampage would sell to more people. Machida might be the champ but he is not a big draw like Rampage, Liddel, Lesnar, GSP, Forrest Griffen, etc..

If you put Machida in the main event of a pay per view (which Dana White will have to since he is the champ), you better put a damn good co-main event or UFC will lack the buy rates they want.

Don’t get me wrong. Machida is a great fighter but I wouldn’t pay to see him unless there’s a VERY strong undercard on that pay per view.

That glue is a big seller because i’m on it too!

Hype sells fights, it always has and always will. Take the Shamrock/Tito trilogy for example, irrelevent fights but huge numbers.

I would prefer to watch Machida vs Rampage over the Rashad fight but i am not a casual fan, like most of the other posters on this site.

iM ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPY WITH THE CURRENT MATCH UPS:
sHOGUN VS. mACHIDA
rASHAD VS. rAMPAGE

I think stylistically, those are the best match ups involving those 4 top fighters!

btw, I hread that UFC 98 pulled in pretty good numbers!

I agree…these are the best matchups right now and it’s basically a mini tournament in the division. The winner of Rashad/Jackson will more than likely get the winner of Shogun/Machida. I know some people may not say Rashad deserves a shot if he beats Page but they were going to give Page a title shot right after Silva so it’s possible. Tournaments are awesome for MMA and I’d love to see the UFC implement a big one some day cause that would be sick. The only hitch in this tournament would be if Forrest somehow beats Anderson…then you’d have to consider giving him a title shot…luckily…Forrest is just shark bait.

Rashad/Quinton is going to generate a massive amount of ratings…espcially after the TUF show…it’s going to have an insane amount of hype behind it and may break some PPV records.

only thing i do at home must be sniffing glue, sure Machida is a recognized fighter cause he’s the champ, and the UFC has gotten so big now so that most people will know what’s up, but Machida does not sell on his own it’d be his opponent Rampage that takes care of that, and when Rampage fights Rashad they both do it, and it’s hyped up by a whole season on TUF!
If they thought Machida vs Rampage would do better than Rashad/Page then we would seen Machida on the show!

Jeremy that’d be a no-brainer for me too, Rampage every day of the week! are u playing that who’s best card again? I won’t watch somebody that i’m not interested of one bit just cause he’s good… I watch my boys, the people that i like fight because i care about them and i like to see them do well!

Double J, I’m with you all the way! I cant believe how many people would prefer to see Rampage take on Rashad? Is it coz you think he’d be embarassed and lose badly against Machida?

I wouldn’t pay a dime to watch Rampage rolling on the ground with Rashad for 3 rounds in a fake TUF hyped grudge match, but I’d sure as hell pay to watch Rampage try and find that chink in the seemingly invincible Machida’s armour, especially with the UFC LHW belt on the line!

I want to see the best fighters in the main event and right now Machida is the best LHW in MMA, nobody has been able to do anything against him (save a last ditch triangle by Tito) and he has walked through every fighter that has been put in front of him. Rampage-Rashad will be a fun fight but seeing how Machida destroyed Rashad I’d take Lyoto-Rampage any day. Lyoto-Shogun should be a great fight, depending on what condition Shogun turns up in.

For this poll, Pacman has to win he had an unbelievable year and destroyed two bigger guys in Hatton and DLH. He is the best p4p boxer and deserves every award that he gets. Mosely’s a good fighter but not the best while Andy didn’t have his best year, although he doesn’t deserve all of the criticism that he has received. In a fair poll Machida would be 2nd to Pacman, as he was this years breakout fighter in MMA. Fedor should also be in the poll but once again he is ignored by the mainstream despite being the greatest fighter in MMA history.

I agree dave that Fedor should be in there too, maybe he would have been had Ray Mercer and Brett Rogers not made his respective opponents look rather stupid. Also GSP who’s had better victories than AS this year.

The fall of Sylvia and Arlovski to me shows what happens when you face Fedor, he broke both of them mentally. AA in particular has always been poor at recovering from defeats.

GSP does deserve to be mentioned, a win over Alves and he would be in the top 2 p4p fighters. After Alves, I don’t see who in the WW division can give him a competetive fight.

Yeah, I dont get how Fedor and GSP werent included. WE can also say the same thing about Mike Brown and Miguel, but the WEC is unfortunatley not as popular as the UFC.

I agree Dave. Who is next for GSP? Kampmann?? Swick?? Cannon Fodder! The thing is with GSP he mutilates his opponents in such a one sided fashion, there’s never any public appetite for rematches.

Wow, Mr 60 minutes!

I didn’t, but I did see Pac-Man vs Hatton and DLH, and beating those guys despite being several weight classes below them is an incredible achievment and tops anything Moseley’s ever done. Margarito is a great fighter, but him and Moseley are similar in weight, whereas Pac-man’s opponents as of late haven’t been.

Maybe AS and Machida are not “certainly” better than Moseley, that’s just my opinion, my boxing knowledge isn’t as good as yours JJ, I was just going on their total dominance of all before them, especially AS who’s fought at two different weights.

I’ve responded to you double j, for some reason its held up in mod?

Pac-man is way faster than Mosley. If Mosley has an advantage, it’s size.

Your right JJ but. Pacman may be faster, but not too distant from Mosely. I also think his main advantage is his counterfighting style which has been pacman’s weakness.
Also, comparing mma fighters to boxers isn’t a good way of knowing which is the better fighter.

Sad thing is I had several mates talking about Mayweather-Big Show as if it was a real fight.

What are you saying, it wasn’t a real fight?

Lol unless you can win a real fight with fake knuckle dusters or attack your opponents trainers then I doubt it. Not one of Mayweather’s proudest moments.

When you put it like that…………..