Quote Originally Posted by Abdula
I completely disagree with this. They didn't fight evenly and I don't consider Naruto to have won that match and its not just because of how lame Naruto was in that fight but because of how it ended. Both were completely out of chakra and too exhausted to even move, now unless you're Animeniax I won't really count that as a victory and I certainly don't. Same with Naruto's little battle with Kabuto but that is another story.
Naruto won that fight. It might not have been clean, but he won, since he was able to stop Gaara from achieving his goal and murdering everybody. Who cares if he ran out of chakra at the end? He wasn't even using a whole tail's worth of chakra.

Naruto got his way, and Gaara didn't. That makes Naruto the winner.