"Fight of the year" is usually just something people say. In the MMA bubble, it's a phrase often attached to qualifiers like "potential" or "candidate," rendering its meaning as something less than superlative: an entertaining, competitive fight [...] But if not fight of the year, how else to describe Cub Swanson versus Doo Ho Choi at UFC 206?
In my books, that fight definitely qualified for Fight of the Year. It was non stop, raw & brutal talent. I had a reaction similar to Dana's tweet when I saw the fight, it was one of a kind