#4 Fight of the year. Period.
Cub Swanson versus Dooho Choi was earmarked to be the fight to watch coming into UFC 206, but the kind of battle that ensued between the two trigger-friendly warriors exceeded all expectations that was appended to it.
In hindsight, a scorecard reading 30-27,30-27,29-28 in favour of Cub Swanson doesn’t leave much room for doubt as to who won that fight, but for those that watched it, nothing could be further from the truth.
It was a magnificent display of technical brawling that ebbed and flowed ceaselessly for the duration of the fight; no sooner was Swanson was getting lit up with that piston-like right hand of Choi, did he contrive to flip the script, buffetting the Korean with a desperate flurry of strikes and cartwheel kicks.
Choi, who had more success in Round 1 when pressing the attack on the front foot, was then left hanging on by the skin of his teeth for the majority of the subsequent rounds in the face of a feral, all-guns-blazing assault from Swanson.
Every time it looked like Swanson would put him away, Dooho Choi would miraculously come back from the dead and stay in the fight.
To put it in a nutshell, it was a battle between Swanson’s will to win and Choi’s iron chin, and at the end of the day, both were left standing tall.
Much like the audience in attendance and also– if I could hazard a guess – everyone around the world who watching from home as well.
