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LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
Hey, 22 ballots submitted, not bad, but it is down a smidge from 2017. On to the results!

[ ] = first place votes
( ) = total points

Fighter of the Year

1. Daniel Cormier [14] (78)

2. Khabib Nurmagomedov [4] (43)
3. Amanda Nunes [0] (37)

Favorite Fighter

1. Max Holloway [1] (22)

*tie* 2. Derrick Lewis [3] (16)
*tie* 2. Dustin Poirier [2] (16)
*tie* 3. Chan Sung Jung [3] (15)
*tie* 3. Amanda Nunes [1] (15)

Fight of the Year

1. Chan Sung Jung vs Yair Rodriguez, UFC Fight Night 139 [9] (50)

2. Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega, UFC 231 [4] (35)
3. Dustin Poirier vs Justin Gaethje, UFC on Fox 29 [3] (26)

Worst Fight of the Year

1. Derrick Lewis vs Francis Ngannou, UFC 226 [10] (68)

2. Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz, Golden Boy MMA 1 [8] (56)
3. Darren Till vs Stephen Thompson, UFC Fight Night 130 [1] (17)

Performance of the Year

1. Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg, UFC 232 [7] (49)

2. Max Holloway vs Brian Ortega, UFC 231 [7] (39)
3. Dustin Poirier vs Justin Gaethje, UFC on Fox 29 [2] (22)

Knockout of the Year

1. Yair Rodriguez vs Chan Sung Jung, upward elbow, UFC Fight Night 139 [15] (87)

2. Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg, punches, UFC 232 [3] (26)
3. Daniel Cormier vs Stipe Miocic, punches, UFC 226 [1] (11)

Submission of the Year

1. Aljamain Sterling vs Cody Stamann and Zabit Magomedshapirov vs Brandon Davis, kneebar, UFC 228 [5] (43)

2. Ryan Hall vs BJ Penn, heel hook, UFC 232 [4] (23)
3. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Conor McGregor, neck crank, UFC 229 [4] (22)

Best Major Show of the Year

1. UFC 229 [9] (56)

2. UFC 228 [4] (23)
3. UFC 231 [2] (16)

Worst Major Show of the Year

1. Golden Boy MMA 1 [8] (43)

2. UFC 222 [2] (26)
3. UFC 225 [1] (11)

Round of the Year

1. Tony Ferguson vs Anthony Pettis, round 2, UFC 229 [3] (34)

2. Thiago Santos vs Jimi Manuwa, round 1, UFC 231 [2] (26)
3. Dustin Poirier vs Eddie Alvarez, round 2, UFC on Fox 30 [3] (18)

Breakout Fighter of the Year

1. Israel Adesanya [11] (68)

2. Zabit Magomedshapirov [1] (25)
3. Alexander Volkanovski [3] (21)

Most Improved Fighter of the Year

1. Henry Cejudo [3] (22)

2. Anthony Smith [2] (13)
3. Israel Adesanya [2] (10)

Upset of the Year

1. Henry Cejudo vs Demetrious Johnson, UFC 227 [12] (63)

2. Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg, UFC 232 [1] (23)
3. Yair Rodriguez vs Chan Sung Jung, UFC Fight Night 139 [1] (8)

Foul of the Year

1. Hector Lombard vs CB Dolloway, late punches, UFC 222 [8] (53)

2. Li Jiangling vs Jake Matthews, eye gouging, UFC 221 [4] (37)
3. Conor McGregor vs Khabib Nurmagomedov, fence grabbing, shorts pulling, glove holding, UFC 229 [2] (11)

Judging Incompetence

1. Henry Cejudo vs Demetrious Johnson, two judges score it for Cejudo, UFC 227 [6] (35)

2. Darren Till vs Stephen Thompson, three judges do not score the fight a draw, UFC Fight Night 130 [0] (6)
*tie* 3. UFC 222, five split decisions [1] (5)
*tie* 3. Hakeem Dawodu vs Kyle Bochniak, one judge scores the fight for Bochniak, UFC 231 [1] (5)
*tie* 3. Sergio Moraes vs Tim Means, UFC Fight Night 125 [1] (5)

Best Division

1. Lightweight [9] (62)

2. Featherweight [8] (48)
3. Middleweight [0] (13)

Worst Booking

1. Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz, Golden Boy MMA 1 [12] (60)

2. CM Punk vs Mike Jackson, UFC 225 [3] (25)
3. Jon Jones, UFC 232 [1] (17)

Dumbest Career Move

1. Jon Jones [7] (49)

*tie* 2. Khabib Nurmagomedov, post-fight antics at UFC 229 [3] (21)
*tie* 2. Conor McGregor, everything leading up to UFC 229 [3] (21)
3. Chuck Liddell unretires to fight Tito Ortiz, Golden Boy MMA 1 [1] (15)

Referee Incompetence

1. Herb Dean lets CB Dolloway get punched a million times on the ground without moving, letting the round end, then telling Dolloway that if doesn't get up, the fight would be stopped, UFC Fight Night 136 [3] (33)

2. Dan Miragliotta watches as Jacare Souza punches the corpse of Chris Weidman without doing anything, UFC 230 [3] (29)
3. Mario Yamasaki just stares as Valentina Shevchenko rains down blows on Priscila Cachoeira, "allowing her to be a warrior", UFC Fight Night 125 [4] (24)

Best Post-Fight Interview

1. Derrick Lewis "my balls was hot", UFC 229 [16] (85)

2. Khabib Nurmagomedov leaps on Dillon Danis, UFC 229 [2] (13)
3. Sean O'Malley speaks while laying on the mat, unable to stand [0] (12)

Most Overhyped and Underperformed

1. Conor McGregor, UFC 229 [4] (25)

2. Darren Till, UFC 228 [2] (14)
*tie* 3. Cris Cyborg, UFC 232 [2] (13)
*tie* 3. Francis Ngannou, UFC 226 [1] (13)

Comedy in MMA

1. Everything surrounding UFC 223 [5] (37)

2. Everything surrounding UFC 232 [6] (34)
3. Golden Boy MMA 1 [0] (16)

Schadenfreude in MMA

1. UFC 229 [7] (50)

2. Cyborg gets knocked out by Nunes, UFC 232 [4] (24)
3. UFC 232 [2] (11)

Best Social Media Presence

1. Derrick Lewis [8] (41)

2. Mark Hunt [1] (9)
*tie* 3. Sage Northcutt [1] (6)
*tie* 3. Israel Adesanya [0] (6)

Predictions!

piratepilates posted:

it'll be bad!

Byolante posted:

the Jon Jones saga will lead to WADA delisting USADA as an acredited testing body

Goodpart posted:

More dumb poo poo in this good dumb sport

CommonShore posted:

Max Holloway will defeat Khabib at 155

john cena posted:

carlos condit, robbie lawler, and chris weidman all have fights and go winless, none of them announce retirement.

I.N.R.I. posted:

Jessica Andrade and Ngannou become champions

Jerusalem posted:

Jon Jones goes to Heavyweight, beats Daniel Cormier, is revealed to be on Super-Heroin. Gets 2 month suspension (overturned).

mewse posted:

The tattered sails flap, hoping to gain the wind’s favor to return home, or some place that would not eat it alive.

Keith Mars posted:

BROCK LESNAR

CarlCX posted:

Ryan Bader chokes again, Fedor wins the Bellator HWGP, Coker refuses to let him fight so they can set up Fedor/Cro-Cop 2 and it falls apart a week before the event

Lid posted:

union fails to get off the ground again resulting in ufc reducing fighter pay further and people getting upset by continuing to vehemontly oppose a union while ufc sinks ever closer to being an artifact of a previous time that because it changed it managed to age so much worse and lost all of its beauty and colour. We miss you Joe Silva. We miss you coloured pants. We miss actual personality.

Tezcatlipoca posted:

Pain

Lloyd Boner posted:

Jon Jones heavyweight champion

beggar posted:

Jon Jones fucks up

Mean Bean Machine posted:

his balls still hot

LobsterMobster posted:

bj penn vs gomi in rizin on nye
someone gets crowned interim "champ champ"

adarno posted:

Jon Jones will kill a child

LobsterMobster fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jan 28, 2019

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LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
Fighter of the Year

2013: Chris Weidman
2014: Robbie Lawler
2015: Conor McGregor
2016: Cody Garbrandt
2017: Max Holloway
2018: Daniel Cormier

Mark Coleman Emeritus Award: PSP's Favorite Fighter

2013: Mark Hunt
2014: Mark Hunt
2015: Mark Hunt
2016: Mark Hunt
2017: Demetrious Johnson
2018: Max Holloway

Fight of the Year

2013: UFC Fight Night 33 – Mark Hunt vs. Antonio Silva
2014: UFC 171 – Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler
2015: UFC 189 – Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald
2016: UFC 206 - Cub Swanson vs Doo Ho Choi
2017: UFC 218 - Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje
2018: UFC Fight Night 139 - Yair Rodriguez vs Chan Sung Jung

Worst Fight of the Year

2017: UFC 209 - Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson 2
2018: UFC 226 - Derrick Lewis vs Francis Ngannou

Performance of the Year

2015: UFC 193 – Holly Holm def. Ronda Rousey
2016: UFC 206 - Cody Garbrandt def. Dominick Cruz
2017: UFC 218 - Max Holloway vs Jose Aldo 2
2018: UFC 232 - Amanda Nunes vs Cris Cyborg

Knockout of the Year

2013: UFC 162 – Chris Weidman KO Anderson Silva
2014: UFC Fight Night 52 – Mark Hunt KO Roy Nelson
2015: UFC 194 – Conor McGregor KO Jose Aldo [Punches]
2016*TIE*: UFC 206 - Lando Vannata KO Jon Makdessi (Spinning wheel kick)
2016*TIE*: UFC 199 - Dan Henderson KO Hector Lombard (Back elbow)
2017: UFC 219 - Francis Ngannou KO Alistair Overeem (Uppercut)
2018: UFC Fight Night 139 - Yair Rodriguez vs Chan Sung Jung (Upwards Elbow)

Submission of the Year

2013: UFC 164 – Anthony Pettis SUB Benson Henderson via Armbar
2014: UFC Fight Night 49 – Ben Saunders SUB Chris Heatherly via Omoplata
2015: UFC 186 – Demetrious Johnson SUB Kyoji Horiguchi [Armbar]
2016: UFC on Fox 18 - Ben Rothwell SUB Josh Barnett (Gogo choke)
2017: UFC 216 - Demetrious Johnson SUB Ray Borg (Suplex armbar)
2018 *TIE*: UFC 228 - Aljamain Sterling SUB Cody Stamann (Kneebar)
2018 *TIE*: UFC 228 - Zabit Magomedshapirov SUB Brandon Davis (Kneebar)

Best Major Show

2013: UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva 2
2014: UFC 178: Johnson vs. Cariaso
2015: UFC 189: Mendes vs. McGregor
2016: UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2017: UFC 217: Bisping vs St-Pierre
2018: UFC 229: Nurmagomedov vs McGregor

Worst Major Show

2013: UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson
2014: UFC Fight Night 36: Machida vs. Mousasi
2015: UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier
2016: Bellator 149: Shamrock vs Gracie 3
2017: UFC 208 - Holm vs De Randamie
2018: Golden Boy MMA 1 - Ortiz vs Liddell 3

Round of the Year

2013: UFC on Fuel 8 – Wanderlei Silva vs. Brian Stann ~ Round 1
2014: UFC Fight Night 40 – Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva ~ Round 1
2015: UFC 187 – Andrei Arlovski vs. Travis Browne ~ Round 1
2016: UFC 206 - Cub Swanson vs Doo Ho Choi ~ Round 2
2017*TIE*: TUF 25 Finale - Michael Johnson vs Justin Gaethje ~ Round 2
2017*TIE*: UFC Fight Night 120 - Dustin Poirier vs Anthony Pettis ~ Round 2
2018: UFC 229 - Tony Ferguson vs Anthony Pettis ~ Round 2

Breakout Fighter of the Year

2013: Chris Weidman
2014: Tyler Jeffrey Dillashaw
2015: Holly Holm
2016: Cody Garbrandt
2017*TIE*: Francis Ngannou
2017*TIE*: Robert Whittaker
2018: Israel Adesanya

Most Improved

2013: Robbie Lawler
2014: Tyler Jeffrey Dillashaw
2015: Holly Holm
2016: Michael Bisping
2017: Rose Namajunas
2018: Henry Cejudo

Upset of the Year

2013: UFC 162 – Chris Weidman def. Anderson Silva
2014: UFC 173 – TJ Dillashaw def. Renan Barγo
2015: UFC 193 – Holly Holm def. Ronda Rousey
2016: UFC 199 - Michael Bisping def. Luke Rockhold
2017: UFC 217 - Rose Namajunas vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk
2018: UFC 227 - Henry Cejudo vs Demetrious Johnson

Best Division

2013: Lightweight
2014: Welterweight
2015: Welterweight
2016: Lightweight
2017: Men's Featherweight
2018: Lightweight

The Joe Silva Brainfart Award - Worst Booking Decision

2013: Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen
2014: Stipe Miocic vs. Fabio Maldonado
2015 *TIE*: UFC books Jon Jones, Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort in main events after failing pre-fight drug tests, with all results being withheld until after their fights or longer for reasons no one can seem to explain.
2015 *TIE*: WSoF books a rematch of disabled retiree Matt Hamill vs shitlord Thiago Silva, who had previously had one of the worst fights of all time. After a late injury Hamill is replaced by unknown Teddy Holder who was scheduled to fight on the undercard who proceeded to KO shitlord Thiago Silva.
2016: RIZIN FF throws a grandma in against Gabi Garcia
2017: UFC Women's Featherweight division
2018: Chuck Liddell unretires to face Tito Ortiz

Dumbest Career Move

2013: Cyborg hires - of course - Tito Ortiz as her manager
2014: CM Punk joins the UFC & trains at Roufusport
2015: Jon Jones' wild night
2016: JON JONES
2017: JON JONES
2018: JON JONES

The Big Dan/Lil Kim Award for Refereeing Incompetence

2013: TFC 26 – White vs. Babcock – Rusty Sullivan watches a KO and doesn't call off the fight.
2014: RFA 14 – Tom Johnson allows fight to continue after Junior Maranhao collapses unconscious between rounds and is revived.
2015: UFC-FN 62 – Leandro Silva vs. Drew Dober – Eduardo Herdy calls a submission victory for Silva from a guillotine that Silva did not have sunk in and had already given up on while Dober was clearly still conscious and had not tapped.
2016*TIE*: UFC FN 85 - Neil Magny vs Hector Lombard. Referee Steve Percival for not stopping the fight during the second round despite Magny landing around 100 unanswered shots
2016*TIE*: EFN 50 - Fedor Emelianenko vs Fabio Maldonado. Fedor's hand picked referee for not stopping the fight in the first round
2017: UFC 210: Gegard Mousasi vs Chris Weidman. Dan Miragliotta stops the fight for a perceived illegal knee. Dan isn't allowed to check the replay, but is told the knee was legal. Weidman is given a five minute recovery period, then declared to have lost via TKO
2018: UFC Fight Night 136: Khalid Murtazaliev vs CB Dolloway. Herb Dean letting Clarence Byron Dollaway get punched a million times on the ground without moving, letting the round end, then telling CB that if he doesn't get up, he would stop the fight

The Cecil Peoples Award for Judging Incompetence

2013: UFC on Fuel 8 – Diego Sanchez vs. Takanori Gomi ~ Two Judges score for Sanchez
2014: UFC Fight Night 42 – Diego Sanchez vs. Ross Pearson ~ Two Judges score for Sanchez
2015: UFC-FN 59 – Cathal Pendred vs. Sean Spencer ~ Unanimous Decision for Pendred
2016: EFN 50 - Fedor Emelianenko vs Fabio Maldonado. Two judges score first round only as 10-9 for Fabio, and give fight overall to Fedor
2017: UFC Fight Night 103 - Joe Lauzon vs Marcin Held, Two judges score it 29-28 for Lauzon, a decision even Joe disputes
2018: UFC 227 - Henry Cejudo vs Demetrious Johnson. Two judges score the fight 48-47 for Cejudo


Gilbert Yvel Memorial Foul of the Year

2014: Every Fight – Jon Jones eye gouges EVERYONE!
2015: ONE-FC 28 – Ze Wu's acrobatic testicle stomp
2016: Bellator 149 - Royce Gracie's non-called knee to the groin
2017: UFC 208 - Germaine de Randamie, Late Punches After the Bell
2018: UFC 222 - Hector Lombard lands late punches, knocks out CB Dolloway and loses by disqualification

Best Post-Fight Interview

2013: UFC on Fuel TV 8 – Mark Hunt
2014: Bellator 121 – James Thompson
2015: UFC on Fox 17 – Nate Diaz
2016: UFC 196 - Nate Diaz
2017: UFC 210 - Daniel Cormier
2018: UFC 229 - Derrick Lewis

Most Overhyped/Underperformed

2013: Alistair Overeem
2014: Renan Barγo
2015: Ronda Rousey
2016: Ronda Rousey
2017: Conor McGregor
2018: Conor McGregor

Best Twitter Account

2013: @danawhite – Dana White
2014: @teamKhabib – Khabib Nurmagomedov
2017: @Thebeast_ufc - Derrick Lewis
2018: @Thebeast_ufc - Derrick Lewis

The Yoel Romero's Poop Stained Shorts Award for Comedy in MMA

2015: Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz – The fight. The drug failures. The trials. The dick pills. The prank call. Everything.
2016: Kimbo Slice vs Dada 5000
2017: Andrei Arlovski fights a giant baby in a diaper
2018: Everything surrounding UFC 223. Tony Ferguson tears his knee while wearing sunglasses indoors, Khabib confronts Artem Lobov in a hotel, Conor flies to New York to throw a hand truck at a bus, NYSAC weighs Al Iaquinta's underpants

The Edmund Tarvedyan's Head Movement Award for Best MMA Schadenfreude of the Year

2016: UFC 207 - Ronda Rousey vs Amanda Nunes
2017: JON JONES
2018: UFC 229 - Conor McGregor conducts a whisky-fueled media campaign against Khabib, his father, and his manager. Khabib drops Conor with a punch, then submits him. Khabib leaps the fence to attack Conor's cornerman, while Khabib's friends fight Conor inside the cage.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Holloway/Ortega was amazing but it's hard to get mad that Korean Zombie/Rodriguez won, that fight also ruled.

Thanks Lobstermobster :)

mewse
May 2, 2006

Nice. Cejudo deserves most improved, I didn't think of him. Funny he also wins for judging incompetence

I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011
i forgot about cejudo too. i think i voted for schevchenko, but thats just cos i dont know much about her career and she became champ this year. anyway, thanks for doing this OP .. i appreciate this kind of stuff more now that im growing up a bit

woozy pawsies
Nov 26, 2007

Max Holloway

CarlCX
Dec 14, 2003

Golden Boy really tipped the worst voting this year, and gently caress Ryan Bader for not failing for once.

Thanks for doing the thing, Lobmob.

LobsterMobster
Oct 29, 2009

"I was being quiet and trying to be a good boy but he dialed the right combination to open the throw-down vault and it was on."

"Walter Foxx is ten times brighter than your bulb at the bottom of the tree merry xmas"
I know this thread is dead, but I just wanted to point out 2 things real quick:

it takes about 2 years for someone to go from winning Fighter of the Year to losing, so be careful, Max! :ohdear:

Very impressive for Jon Jones to consistently make the worst possible career moves and still be a title holder

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Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


It's simply wrong that Jon Jones won in 2018.

He is now fully allowed to test positive without consequence. It's the best career move.

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