The Greatest Fight  The greatest fight I’ve ever seen is the
battle between a young Shogun Rua and Antônio Rogério Nogueira.
This is the kind of fight Viking gods put on in the background
while they hold orgies in Valhalla. This fight was so wrought
with testosterone that every woman within 50 miles was
impregnated immediately, and the babies all came out with chests
covered in hair, holding glasses of whiskey.  A little
background: Shogun was coming off a blitzkrieg of Rampage
Jackson’s face, a fight that would lead Rampage to say Shogun
was the best fighter he ever went up against. Shogun was only 23
at the time, and was seen as the future of the sport, holding a
9-1 record, with all of his victories by KO or TKO stoppage.
Nogueira came into the fight with an 11-1 record, his last two
over notables Dan Henderson and Alistair Overeem. This was only
a quarterfinal match in Prides Middleweight Grand Prix, but it
eclipsed every other fight in the tournament.  To add more
dramatics to the whole thing, Shogun cam