Moto-Rockstar
12-27-2008, 11:31 PM
What an amazing night for MMA. All of the fighters put on incredible performances, topping off the new year and setting way for some interesting match-ups in 2009. For time's sake and your sake for my terrible grammar, let's just re-cap on what I consider the win of the year...
Arguably one of the most inspiring fights of the night goes to Frank Mir's second round t.k.o. victory over Minotauro Noguiera. Mir came out with an impressive stand up game that Noguiera could not answer to. Punch after punch, Mir picked Noguiera apart. Many would agree that witnessing the well respected Brazilian being finished for the first time in his career was a very tragic sight but the victory was well deserved for the more determined and classy Frank Mir. What was even more incredible was Frank Mir's emotional post-fight interview where the teary-eyed interim heavy-weight champ said, "To come back and fight the best heavyweight to ever fight in the UFC and get a win over him after what I've gone through, it just shows … I'm proof you can do things. I didn't think I could beat Nogueira. If I was a betting man, I wasn't on Mir's side tonight. I came through this with the love of my family, my children, my wife, everybody.” What an inspiration to take on the new year, one punch at a time.
Arguably one of the most inspiring fights of the night goes to Frank Mir's second round t.k.o. victory over Minotauro Noguiera. Mir came out with an impressive stand up game that Noguiera could not answer to. Punch after punch, Mir picked Noguiera apart. Many would agree that witnessing the well respected Brazilian being finished for the first time in his career was a very tragic sight but the victory was well deserved for the more determined and classy Frank Mir. What was even more incredible was Frank Mir's emotional post-fight interview where the teary-eyed interim heavy-weight champ said, "To come back and fight the best heavyweight to ever fight in the UFC and get a win over him after what I've gone through, it just shows … I'm proof you can do things. I didn't think I could beat Nogueira. If I was a betting man, I wasn't on Mir's side tonight. I came through this with the love of my family, my children, my wife, everybody.” What an inspiration to take on the new year, one punch at a time.