UFC 139 Fight Card: This Event Could Go Down As the Greatest UFC Event Ever

Did we just witness the greatest fight card in UFC history?

This is the popular question following UFC 139 on Saturday night, which took place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.

The main card delivered on every level of excitement including dramatic comebacks, exciting finishes and perhaps the greatest fight in UFC history.

A main event rarely lives up to its billing, but the UFC 139 bout between legends Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Dan Henderson will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest fights in UFC history.

From start to finish, the two legends went after one another in a bloody battle that will be remembered for years to come.

Henderson walked away with a close unanimous decision in the end, but there clearly weren't any losers in the bout as Shogun showcased incredible heart and an ability to comeback from adversity.

With the light heavyweight championship bout between Jon Jones and Lyoto Machida slated for December, Henderson could face former UFC champion Rashad Evans in his next outing, but it's hard not to hope for an immediate rematch between Shogun and Henderson after witnessing such a great fight.

While the headliner stole the show, the co-main event bout between Wanderlei Silva and Cung Le wasn't too far behind.

Le dazzled early out with multiple spinning back kicks and a spinning back fist that nearly stopped Silva in the first round.

In the second round, a more aggressive Silva blasted Le in the standup exchanges, cinched up the Muay Thai clinch and unloaded with knees to end the bout in vintage "Axe Murderer" fashion.

The primary criticism for the featherweight and bantamweight divisions are generally a lack of finishes, but former WEC champion Urijah Faber silenced the critics in his bout with top-three bantamweight contender Brian Bowles.

Faber bullied Bowles on the feet before sinking in a deep guillotine choke that forced the former bantamweight champion to tap at 1:27 of the first round.

Martin Kampmann and Rick Story didn't walk away with the bonus, but it was certainly a Fight of the Night worthy scrap, as the "Hitman" earned the split decision nod after a bloody back and forth standup battle.

Stephan Bonnar dominated Kyle Kingsbury in entertaining fashion, despite a plethora of boos creeping in late in the third round. The crowd was partisan to Kingsbury, who fights out of San Jose, but Bonnar remained active in the fight from every position.

One of the judges penned a pair of 10-8 rounds leaning in Bonnar's favor for a 30-25 decision verdict.

No one wants to be a prisoner of the moment, but looking back, it's tough not to consider this card as the best of 2011, if not the best in UFC history.

Where were you on November 19, 2011?

Hopefully, you were watching history in the making as UFC 139 delivered an event full of instant classics.

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