Re: MMA and Boxing Fights of the Year
What do you mean by quality? Like the quality of the fights or the quality of the fighters?
If you're looking at it by quality of fighters, you're having the added benefit of looking in hindsight and seeing these guys as the stars they are now.
Take a card like UFC 74:
Prelims
Marcus Aurelio vs. Clay Guida
Thales Leites vs. Ryan Jensen
Frank Mir vs. Antoni Hardonk
Renato Sobral vs. David Heath
Main card
Kendall Grove vs. Patrick Côté
Joe Stevenson vs. Kurt Pellegrino
Roger Huerta vs. Alberto Crane
Georges St. Pierre vs.Josh Koscheck
Randy Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga
That stacks up very well with 52. IMO, every main card in the past 10 or so PPVs (UFC 72 excluded) has been extremely good and the prelims have usually been solid as well.
Also, UFC 52 wasn't happening on a regular basis.
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