It has returned! You know the drill, pick your Top-5 fighters for the month of April. Poll will be up for a week. Have at it!
Marcio Cruz (Art of Fighting) - Retained the AOF Heavyweight Championship over David Yost in the first round of the main event of Art of Fighting 7. I said it before this fight, but I'd like to see Cruz get a another shot in a big or semi-big company.
Tim Boetsch (NAFC) - KO'd Reese Shaner in the main event after 95 seconds for NAFC.
Artemij Sitenkov (Bushido Challenge) - It took only 34 seconds and a flying armbar for fast-riser Sitenkov to take out James Doolan and stake his claim in the Top-25 Bantamweights.
Zach Makovsky (M-1) - Took out Josh Rave with a guillotine in the main event of M-1: The Americas.
Frankie Edgar (UFC) - (Howard Finkel voice)....And...NEEEWWWW UFC Lightweight Champion of the World! Edgar did what you had to do to beat BJ, and something that nobody thought he could, outbox him. His boxing, energy, and takedowns, while brief, still made an impact, and in a close fight (one judge had it 50-45 for Edgar, no way), he defeated the champ by unanimous decision in probably the biggest upset since Serra-St. Pierre to become the UFC Lightweight Champion.
Roger Huerta (Bellator) - El Matador is back! A fantastic dismantling of undefeated Chad Hinton to move one spot closer in the Bellator Lightweight Tourney merits a #2 spot.
Georgi Karakhanyan (Bellator) - In a big upset, Georgi takes down Bao Quach with a knee KO in the first round to move on in the Bellator Featherweight Tournament.
Anderson Silva (UFC) - Ugh. I hate to give him this spot after his dispicable performance, but *sigh* a win is a win and he kept the UFC Middleweight Title...bitch...
Gilbert Melendez (Strikeforce) - Wow. I've never seen anyone do that to Shinya Aoki. Christ almighty. He should have finished him in the fourth if Mario Yamasaki wasn't such a retard. His warrior spirit in desperately trying to finish the fight before the bell in the fifth was fun and admirable. His takedown defense was Penn-esque, and his technical boxing was very solid. Aoki's fought alot of tough dudes, but I haven't seen anyone just shrug off everything Aoki did like El Nino did. Aoki went 0/18 on takedowns! Melendez may not be the #1 Lightweight in the world, but he is, without question to me, the best LW Champ in the world.
Jake Shields (Strikeforce) - What. The. Fuck. Scott Coker must be crying right now. His biggest free-agent aquisition just got dominated by a welterweight. Shields has basically said he wants to leave for UFC and fight at his more natural 170. So you're left with a champion that wants to leave, your best free agent just got embarassed, and a true 170 just beat a true 205. Oh, and all your fights were decisions and your affiliates are gonna be pissed. Coker just had the worst night ever.
Muhammed Lawal (Strikeforce) - It wasn't pretty, but Lawal slogged his way to a unanimous decision win to become the NEW Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion with a takedown clinic on Gegard Mousasi.
Pat Curran (Bellator) - Put himself on the map with an enormous KO of Mike Ricci, which has been re-posted on many an MMA site. He's now someone to watch for in the Lightweight tourney.
Jose Aldo (WEC) - Jesus. Aldo beat Faber like Ike used to beat Tina. He beat him like he stole something. Good Lord, that was hard to watch. The only fight I've ever seen that leg kicks were even close to that realm of nasty was Forrest vs. Rampage, but Aldo chopped him down so badly that Faber had to literally carried to his corner after Round 4. Not to mention the quick combos, body shots with the hands and feet, and it was just an utter domination, on a Franklin vs. Loiseau level or worse. All the credit in the world, Urijah is a fucking warrior, but Aldo served him his lunch, then stole it from him. Yeesh that's a scary dude.)
Benson Henderson (WEC) - Put a definitive end to the Henderson-Varner-Cerrone love triangle for the WEC Lightweight Title. He's the undisputed man now with no one, save a Shane Roller challenge, in sight.
Chang Sung Jung/Leonard Garcia (WEC) - Giving them a shared spot. What a motherfucking fight. I've seen scores ranging all over the place, I had it 29-29, but I'm a lot more liberal with 10-10 rounds than most people are. Regardless, it was a fantastic fight for both guys (who walked away 65K richer), WEC, and MMA in general.
Dan Hornbuckle (Bellator) - WAR HORNBUCKLE! 2:03 was all it took for DannyHorn to move on. Like he said, "the belt is already mine, I just have to take care of four guys to get it."
Bryan Baker (Bellator) - I feel justified in talking up THE BEAST after his demolition of Sean Loeffler. He's still my favorite to win it, Shlemenko or not.
Alexander Shlemenko (Bellator) - And speak of the devil! On only a few days notice and coming from Russia, he scored a dominating win over Matt Major.
Eric Schambari (Bellator) - In the main event of Bellator 16, Schambari made quick work of Luke Zachrich with an arm triangle to earn himself a dance with Bryan Baker.
Jared Hess (Bellator) - A quality win by guillotine over Ryan McGivern moves him on against Alexander Shlemenko.
_________________ 145 - Joachim, Mike Brown, Joe Warren, Leonard Garcia, Aldo 155 - KenFlo, Joe Lauzon, Anyone fighting Aoki, Guida 170 - Rumble, Whitemare, Anyone fighting the Diaz Brothers, T-Wood, Hornbuckle 185 - Chael Sonnen (R-Oregon), Hendo, Quarry, Lombard, Marquardt, Lawlor 205 - Hamill, Captain America, Ace Franklin, Bones, King Mo 265 - Grim Rogers, Mir, Anyone fighting Brock, Big Country, Struve
1. Jose Aldo. Although we've seen a lot of championships of the major organisations, Aldo is the only one that really blew my mind. Good performance, totally dominating a legend. Definately my fighter of the month
2. Frankie Edgar. Didnt dominate his titlefight, but hey, fighting like that against one of the greater legens in BJ Penn is an achievement itself. Despite some of the judges scores Edgar did win the fight fairly. And ofcourse credits for being the first to take Penn down in ages (not just once but twice).
While writing this message I realise I had to put in Manny Gamburyan or Ben Henderson as well. Both did a good performance as well.
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Somehow Manny Gamburyan didn't make a list of this many fighters and that makes me sad.
In no particular order:
Frankie Edgar - shocked the world Jake Shields - shocked the world Gilbert Melendez - beat #2 of his weight division to retain his title Benson Henderson - make extremely short work to retain his spot on top of the WEC Jose Aldo - established himself in my eyes as pound for pound best in the world
First off, I thought I had picked Edgar as well, but a slight variance in grey-on-grey is kinda tricky to see on my monitor Anyway...
Shields - Awesome heart and a great performance in his fight. I'd picked against him, but I was secretly hoping he could win. Delighted that he did. UFC next stop...
Aldo - Looked outstanding. The level of stand-up dominance Anderson Silva had in the first couple of rounds of his fight, but then none of the bizzare shit.
Henderson - A superb performance.
Found it hard to vote for Bellator guys, dispite excellent performance, cos I feel they are not finished with their performances yet (like the fight is still ongoing). I would have voted for Manny Gamburian and Brad Pickett if they were in the list.
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