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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, we got 27 ballots submitted, much better than the 16 in 2016. Granted, one person just put "george st-pierre" in every category, but I'll take what I can get in this dying forum. Anyway, on to the results!

[] = first place votes
() = total points

Fighter of the Year

1. Max "Blessed" Holloway [9] (75)

3. Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson [6] (52)
3. Robert "The Reaper" Whittaker [5] (52)

Favorite Fighter

1. Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson [5] (38)

2. Mark "Super Samoan" Hunt [3] (25)
3. "Thug" Rose Namajunas [2] (22)

Fight of the Year

1. Eddie Alvarez vs Justin Gaethje, UFC 218 [10] (71)

2. Justin Gaethje vs Michael Johnson, TUF 25 Finale [7] (60)
3. Yancy Medeiros vs Alex Oliveira, UFC 218 [5] (39)

Worst Fight of the Year

1. Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson 2, UFC 209 [9] (82)

2. Tyron Woodley vs Demian Maia, UFC 214 [7] (60)
3. Ryan Bader vs Phil Davis 2, Bellator 180 [4] (30)

Performance of the Year

1. Max Holloway vs Jose Aldo 2, UFC 218 [8] (57)

2. Rose Namajunas vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk, UFC 217 [6] (36)
3. Robert Whittaker vs Ronaldo Souza, UFC on Fox 24 [1] (28)

Knockout of the Year

1. Francis Ngannou vs Alistair Overeem, Uppercut, UFC 218 [15] (93)

2. Edson Barboza vs Beneil Dariush, Flying Knee, UFC Fight Night 106 [3] (41)
4. Chan Sung Jung vs Dennis Bermudez, Punch, UFC Fight Night 104 [2] (16)
4. Matt Brown vs Diego Sanchez, Elbow, UFC Fight Night 120 [1] (16)

Submission of the Year

1. Demetrious Johnson vs Ray Borg, Suplex-Armbar, UFC 216 [19] (107)

2. Oleksiy Oliynyk vs Viktor Pesta, Ezekial Choke from Bottom Mount, UFC Fight Night 104 [5] (48)
3. Jonno Mears vs Aaron Jones, Boston Crab, Full Contact Contenders 19 [0] (15)

Best Major Show

1. UFC 217 [20] (108)

2. UFC 218 [1] (41)
3. UFC 211 [0] (10)

Worst Major Show

1. UFC 208 [13] (74)

2. UFC Fight Night 121: Werdum vs Tybura [2] (27)
3. UFC 209 [2] (16)

Round of the Year

1. Justin Gaethje vs Michael Johnson, Round 2, TUF 25 Finale [3] (21)
1. Dustin Poirier vs Anthony Pettis, Round 2, UFC Fight Night 120 [3] (21)

3. Yancy Medeiros vs Alex Oliveira, Round 1, UFC 218 [3] (18)

Breakout Fighter of the Year

1. Francis "The Predator" Ngannou [5] (39)
1. Robert "The Reaper" Whittaker [5] (39)

3. Volkan "No Time" Oezdemir [4] (32)

Most Improved Fighter of the Year

1. "Thug" Rose Namajunas [13] (65)

3. Rafael Dos Anjos [2] (18)
3. Robert "The Reaper" Whittaker [0] (18)

Upset of the Year

1. Rose Namajuans vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk, UFC 217 [23] (118)

2. Darren Till vs Donald Cerrone, UFC Fight Night 118 [0] (17)
3. Robert Whittaker vs Ronaldo Souza, UFC on Fox 24 [0] (15)

Gilbert Yvel Award for Foul of the Year

1. Germaine de Randamie, Late Punches After the Bell (2x), UFC 208 [9] (60)

2. Walt Harris, Low Blow and Headkick During Stoppage, UFC 217 [2] (16)
3. Gabi Garcia, Soccer kicks, Shootboxing Girls' S-Cup 2017 [2] (13)

Cecil Peoples Award for Judging Incompetence

1. Joe Lauzon vs Marcin Held, Two judges score it 29-28 for Lauzon, a decision even Joe disputes, UFC Fight Night 103 [12] (60)

2. Anderson Silva vs Derek Brunson, One judge scores fight 30-27 for Silva, UFC 208 [1] (13)
3. Germaine de Randamie vs Holly Holm, 48-47 x3 for GdR, UFC 208 [1] (10)

Best Division

1. Men's Featherweight [7] (67)

2. Lightweight [9] (63)
3. Middleweight [1] (21)

Joe Silva Brainfart Award for Worst Booking Decision

1. Women's Featherweight [4] (58)

2. Michael Bisping vs Kelvin Gastelum, 3 weeks after getting dropped and choked unconscious [9] (54)
3. Gabi Garcia vs Japanese grandmas [5] (27)

Dumbest Career Move

1. JON JONES [19] (103)

2. Conor doing coke, fighting with Marc Goddard, getting a bounty put on his head by Irish gangster [0] (22)
3. Michael Bisping vs Kelvin Gastelum, 3 weeks after getting dropped and choked unconscious [0] (6)

The Big Dan/Lil Kim Award for Refereeing Incompetence

1. 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 [5] (36)

2. Paul Felder vs Charles Oliveira. Dan Miragliotta fails to see Oliveira tap out, allowing Felder to land six more vicious elbows [1] (26)
3. Asha Roka vs Hanna Kamf, SFL Sher-E-Punjab vs Bengaluru Tigers, Unknown SFL referee for not stopping the fight while Kamf was clearly unconscious for over 15 seconds [4] (23)

Best Post Fight Interview

1. Daniel Cormier, UFC 210 [3] (22)

2. Derrick Lewis, UFC Fight Night 105 [2] (16)
3. Francis Ngannou, UFC 218 [2] (15)

Most Overhyped/Underperformed

1. Conor McGregor [6] (39)

2. Donald Cerrone [2] (16)
3. Jon Jones [2] (13)

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

1. Andrei Arlovski fights a giant baby in a diaper [6] (37)

2. Jon Jones' whole everything [5] (31)
3. Michael Chandler gets his stool taken away [2] (23)

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

1. Jon Jones' whole everything [9] (57)

2. Johny Hendricks misses weight after moving up to 185 [3] (15)
3. Ian McCall's continued gypsy curse [1] (10)

Best Social Media Presence

1. Derrick Lewis [7] (35)

2. Khabib Nurmagomedov [1] (12)
4. Sage Northcutt [1] (8)
4. Mark Hunt [1] (8)

Predictions!

Soothing Vapors posted:

im gay

Unfunny Poster posted:

I'm going to go to Japan to watch a Rizin card.

Flaskraven posted:

Bad

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Conor will fight Tony, Tony subs him around July/Aug inside 3, he talks about moving either down to 145 for Holloway or to 170 for GSP/Woodley but neither fight comes to fruition.

CommonShore posted:

RDA becomes the first fighter to earn and to defend belts in two divisions.

Lid posted:

Conor McGregor will have his biggest fight to date when he appears in a court room to declare bankruptsy

Memento posted:

No woman succeeds in holding a belt in two divisions.

DumbWhiteGuy posted:

Cyborg does something really dumb and they close Women's 145

Fozzy the Bear posted:

george st-pierre

Lloyd Boner posted:

New men's flyweight champion

Fentry posted:

Conor doesn't defend his belt, probably boxes Pacquiao

Jerusalem posted:

Conor McGregor fights even less, gets even richer.

Bluedeanie posted:

Hulkamania is runnin wild, brother

LobsterMobster posted:

  • Cyborg will not be UFC w145 champ by the end of 2018, but not from losing

  • Artem Lobov/Cain Velasquez/Dom Cruz/Khabib Nurmgamomedov will win more UFC fights than Conor McGregor in 2018

  • mike perry dies from meth and or alligators

  • An alternate wins Bellator HW GP

Dan Didio posted:

Jon Jones Will Kill Again

Keith Mars posted:

DJ wins four fights - no one cares

INRI posted:

Conor fights for a title

Nystral posted:

Daniel Cromier busted for drugs

Fat Twitter Man posted:

Dumb idiots will whine about evil Dana White. Fights will be good.

Spunky Jewster posted:

McGregor will not fight

Mean Bean Machine posted:

It can't be worse than 2017

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Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



LobsterMobster posted:

Granted, one person just put "george st-pierre" in every category,

why would you betray me like this

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

Mark Coleman Emeritus Award: PSP's Favorite Fighter

2013: Mark Hunt
2014: Mark Hunt
2015: Mark Hunt
2016: Mark Hunt
2017: Demetrious Johnson

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

Worst Fight of the Year

2017: UFC 209 - Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson 2

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

Most Improved

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

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

Best Division

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Most Overhyped/Underperformed

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

Best Twitter Account

2013: @danawhite – Dana White
2014: @teamKhabib – Khabib Nurmagomedov
2017: @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

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

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Nobody voted for DC as their Favorite Fighter? :smith:

Tezcatlipoca
Sep 18, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

Nobody voted for DC as their Favorite Fighter? :smith:

He's up there but not top 3 and not this year.

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"

Jerusalem posted:

Nobody voted for DC as their Favorite Fighter? :smith:

he got 1 first place vote and that's it :smithicide:

El Roncho
Oct 15, 2006

I'm not necessarily proud of this but I'm gonna leave it here anyways.
Someone make sure Auron didn't have a brain aneurysm when he read the favorite fighter.

DumbWhiteGuy
Jul 4, 2007

You need haters. Fellas if you got 20 haters, you need 40 of them motherfuckers. If there's any haters in here that don't have nobody to hate on, feel free to hate on me
RIP to mark hunt for finally losing The Mark Coleman Award, it was a good run

Lloyd Boner
Oct 11, 2009

Yes officer, my name is Victoria Sonnen...berg
I wonder if Jon will be able to go four straight

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~
Sad that Walt Harris' landmark low-high foul combo innovation didn't win best foul, but really glad giant baby diaper-man got a mention, that whole thread had me in tears.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
The Breakout Fighter of the Year curse.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
im upset at the lack of Gabi Garcia

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Lid posted:

im upset at the lack of Gabi Garcia

She came third for bad booking, she just couldn't beat out W145 or Bisping getting his brain scrambled shortly after he got his brain scrambled.

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"

Memento posted:

She came third for bad booking, she just couldn't beat out W145 or Bisping getting his brain scrambled shortly after he got his brain scrambled.

I made an executive division to combine all individual instances of w145 title fights with the ballots that listed women's featherweight as a collective.

Work Friend Keven
Oct 24, 2015

I'M A BIG STUPID IDIOT WHO GETS TRIGGERED FROM THE WORDS SPORTS BALL AND HAS SHIT OPINIONS ABOUT CARD GAMES. ALSO I SAID I WAS GOING TO QUIT HEARTHSTONE OUT OF SPITE OF A TAIWANESE WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO REPORT ME IF YOU SEE ME POST IN A HS THREAD

Jerusalem posted:

Nobody voted for DC as their Favorite Fighter? :smith:

I think this happened because he sucks.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Thank you LobsterMobster for putting in the effort! I enjoy your contributions here and on twitter.

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


hmm i think my prediction might be a tad wrong

DumbWhiteGuy
Jul 4, 2007

You need haters. Fellas if you got 20 haters, you need 40 of them motherfuckers. If there's any haters in here that don't have nobody to hate on, feel free to hate on me

CommonShore posted:

Thank you LobsterMobster for putting in the effort! I enjoy your contributions here and on twitter.

Definitely echoing this and if you aren't following her on Twitter then you are missing out.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Memento posted:

She came third for bad booking, she just couldn't beat out W145 or Bisping getting his brain scrambled shortly after he got his brain scrambled.

yeah but im including mma shadenfreude because even though it was new years eve there was the crying on her knees for missing weight by 200lbs and begging for the match to be rescheduled for next new years eve

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.
I told you that in confidence you son of a bitch

Mean Bean Machine
May 9, 2008

Only when I breathe.
demetrious "no personality, only takes easy fights" johnson is the one to dethrone mark hunt in the favorite fighter category after all these years? just kill this forum already

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
I voted for Platinum Mike Perry.

Charles Gnarwin
Jul 31, 2014

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...


Medeiros/Oliveira got robbed!

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

Mean Bean Machine posted:

demetrious "no personality, only takes easy fights" johnson is the one to dethrone mark hunt in the favorite fighter category after all these years? just kill this forum already

to be honest i wish i was funny enough to vote for him ironically, because it's loving perfect lol

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I.N.R.I
May 26, 2011

Jerusalem posted:

Nobody voted for DC as their Favorite Fighter? :smith:

i respect him the most. but my favourite fighter these days is romero. although i think i actually voted for aldo

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