Open Discussion... What's the best way to win an MMA fight ??????

Hey, Just thought i'd get a little debate going on here seeing as things have been very quiet around here lately..
So the question is.... in your opinion. what is the best way to win an MMA fight?? is it by a bone crunching Submission? a brutal knockout? maybe a TKO, or even a hard fought decision??
List whatever way you think is the best, along with your reasons...
I'll start off... In my opinion, the submission for me is the ultimate way for finishing a fight.. there's just something about making your opponent quit. that to me outweigh's any knockout, no matter how brutal.
A knockout can be fluked, or lucky sometimes... but when have you ever heard of someone fluking a submission, or luckily pulling one off? now im not putting knockout's down or strikers down at all, it requires tremoundous skill and talent to become a real top level striker, and some of my favourite fighters are top level strikers, but there is just something very special for me in seeing a submission executed in a manner that results in the opponent taping out, and basically giving up. it for me is a thing of beauty...and for those that dont tap out, a short nap or trip to the A and E department soon follows.


One of my favourite submissions of recent times was the triangle that Damien Maia used to defeat Chael Sonnen.. a beautiful trip off the cage resulting in a seamless transition into a triangle choke that sonnen could do nothing about, and was helpless to stop. it was the only way Maia was going to win the fight, and boy did he pull it off.
Please feel free to discuss and give your opinion on what you feel the best way to finish a fight is..|||what i don't like to see is when one fighter is whoopin on the other, im talkin brutally. Then all of a sudden the guy gets a lucky clean shot in, or lands in a great position and subs the guy.. :)
so yea, alot of ppl like it, but i don't like come from behind instant wins. Subs are cool andshow alot of skill. but sometimes in a fight where the guy is gettin whooped, its like a cowards way out, just to end the fight by winning the last 3 seconds.. you're tryin to pound a guy (no homo) just throwin bombs like a man, and all he's doin is squirming and trying to grab your legs and arms...
like this dude against the IE King Bobby Green


LET THE DEBATE BEGIN|||"What's the best way to win an MMA fight"
Punch your opponent before they punch you.|||the best way to win in mma is a flying armbar nuf said|||

the best way to win in mma is a flying armbar nuf said

Flying triangle beats flying arm bar any day!
Has to be choking someone unconcious. Yes, I'm sadistic like that.|||

the best way to win in mma is a flying armbar nuf said

Flying triangle beats flying arm bar any day!
Has to be choking someone unconcious. Yes, I'm sadistic like that.

true how bout flying anything|||Soccer kick to the face!|||

Hey, Just thought i'd get a little debate going on here seeing as things have been very quiet around here lately..
So the question is.... in your opinion. what is the best way to win an MMA fight?? is it by a bone crunching Submission? a brutal knockout? maybe a TKO, or even a hard fought decision??
List whatever way you think is the best, along with your reasons...
I'll start off... In my opinion, the submission for me is the ultimate way for finishing a fight.. there's just something about making your opponent quit. that to me outweigh's any knockout, no matter how brutal.
A knockout can be fluked, or lucky sometimes... but when have you ever heard of someone fluking a submission, or luckily pulling one off? now im not putting knockout's down or strikers down at all, it requires tremoundous skill and talent to become a real top level striker, and some of my favourite fighters are top level strikers, but there is just something very special for me in seeing a submission executed in a manner that results in the opponent taping out, and basically giving up. it for me is a thing of beauty...and for those that dont tap out, a short nap or trip to the A and E department soon follows.


One of my favourite submissions of recent times was the triangle that Damien Maia used to defeat Chael Sonnen.. a beautiful trip off the cage resulting in a seamless transition into a triangle choke that sonnen could do nothing about, and was helpless to stop. it was the only way Maia was going to win the fight, and boy did he pull it off.
Please feel free to discuss and give your opinion on what you feel the best way to finish a fight is..

LOL. Most people are going to say 'Mir Vs Lesnar 1' here lol. I wouldn't agree, but thats one alot of people would throw out there.
To me, it depends on the fighter. Take the Machida Vs Evans fight. That ending was AWESOME because we have seen Rashad not only K.O. people before himself, but he K.O.'d the biggest fish out there in Chuck Liddell, so needless to say, he's a striker. So seeing Machida just KILL him with a K.O. was awesome.
The Liddell-Evans fight is another one BTW. Just seeing the K.O. artist get some of his own medecine makes it that much more awesome imo.
Another example I could give in the submission world would be: if I were to see a guy sub Royce Gracie. That would be impressive, or someone K.O. Anderson Silva.
To me, thats the coolest way to see fights end. For me it all boils down to who it happens to.|||

Soccer kick to the face!

I will second this :)|||GOGOPLATA!
reason - its flashy looks cool, its a hard one to pull of that shows hours of training and you do it of your back (unless your aoki) so its like 'ha i got you down', 'ha i taped u out!'
|||Someone pulled a mounted gogo on me the other night haha. I like pulling off a perfect armbar from guard though...