#2 Cub Swanson vs. Doo Ho Choi
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A nerdy looking Asian kid makes his UFC debut in the Featherweight division and proceeds to knock out his adversary in mere 18 seconds in a very Mcgregor-esque fashion. In his second fight, he stretches it out a little bit more by finishing the fight in one-and-a-half minutes. He adds the next knockout to his resume in a little more than 2 minutes.
After 3 fights in the UFC's featherweight division, Doo Ho Choi still had not even completed a full round in the octagon.
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After breaking into the top 15, Choi quickly called out the veteran Cub Swanson for a fight. Cub agreed, the bout agreement was signed for UFC 206, an exhibition for the Featherweights, headlined by Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis for the interim featherweight title.
But many people deemed Swanson vs. Choi the unofficial main event of the evening.
When the bout took place, it became clear why. A battle of epic proportions culminated in a three-round war that seemed to stretch the duration of three rounds into a lifetime. A fight which made the viewers feel tired for the fighters involved and made their hearts pump out of their chests, in a fight that was rightfully a fight of the year candidate.
As a young upcoming prospect for the Featherweight division, Choi dominated Swanson until the cards were flipped and now Choi found himself sinking and swimming in deep waters.
Superman punches, flashy Capoeira kicks with one hand on the ground, looping haymakers, spinning back fists, body shots that would send anyone gasping for breath and on the ground, hardly fazed Choi as he went on to take more punishment than a heavy bag does.
Even then, he managed to shift the momentum on his side momentarily and landed hard shots while he could. With a sudden rise in the level of competition, Choi did better than most people expected him to and then some.
After giving us one of the best fights of 2016, it makes me extremely excited to think about the plethora of interesting match ups that Choi can be linked up with in 2017.
And it is just the beginning.
