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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Round of the year: Frevola Valdez Rd 1

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

MMA should honestly have a 3 knockdown rule

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Erosa - Peterson early FOTY candidate?

More classic mma dumb fun back and forth than Chikadze - Kattar, and more exciting than Moreno - Deiveson

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst event of the year: Vegas 47 for being more boring than Bellator 273 and a main event featuring a wrestler that didn't wrestle and a striker that didn't strike

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst judging of the year: Sal d'Amato gave Hermansson 48-47 vs Strickland 🙃

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Comeback of the year: Silva de Andrade getting rocked in Rd 1 and taking a huge cut next to his eye, then coming back in Rd 2 to stun Morozov multiple times on the feet and finish him by RNC.

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst judging incompetence: Robert Alexander inexplicably picking Modaferri over O'Neil and Vanderaa over Arlovski in the same night.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Drew Dober comeback of the year finishing McKinney after being out on his feet

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

KO of the year - Khalil Roundtree by apparently legally body kicking a grounded opponent and melting his soul Song Yadong sending Moraes to the shadow realm with a walk-off uppercut

COPE 27 fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Mar 13, 2022

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Performance of the Year: Molly McCann empties the gas tank swanging and banging and still manages a 3rd round spinning elbow KO against Luana Carolina

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

FOTY: Burns - Chimaev

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Upset of the year:

Aljamein Sterling vs Petr Yan

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

KO of the year: Fialho shuts off the lights with check left hook vs Cameron VanCamp

E: actually no chandler with the silva walk off KO vs Tony Ferguson was better

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst fight of the year: Esparza Namajunas

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst Coaching Gameplan of the Year: Pat Barry telling his fighter/gf to keep doing what she's doing

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Most Overhyped and Underperformed: Rose saying "I'm the best"

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Fentry posted:

Round of the Year: Charles Oliveira vs Justin Gaethje, Round 1, UFC 274

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Yeah that was a pretty great sequence, idk if I would put it ahead of Andraj's standing triangle but top 5 this year so far.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

KO of the year: Paul Daley sends Giacamo face first into the canvas


https://twitter.com/BellatorMMA/status/1525220301281320962

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

KO of the year: Zhang Weili launching Joanna face first into the canvas with a spinning backfist

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Brut posted:

UFC 275 no bad fights on the entire card, whatever category that is. Every category.

Card of the year so far

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Teixeira - Prochazka FOTY

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Only fight night London came close to the entertainment value but these were fights that actually mattered.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst Coaching gameplan: telling your fighter who clearly won the first round to do something high risk in round 2, because, apparently "gently caress it"

Jeffrey - Aguiar, Bellator 282

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Also comeback of the year

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Performance of the year: Amanda Nunes vs Juliana Pena UFC 277 for 4 or 5 knockdowns and a 50-43 judges score.

Worst commentary of the year year Joe Rogan calling Penas panic grappling competitive when barring one arm bar attempt none of them were ever close.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Fight of the Year: Nate Landwehr vs David Onama
Comeback of the Year: Nate Landwehr def David Onama

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Greatest Schadenfreude of the Year

Kamaru spending the run-up to 278 pontificating about his plans to jump TWO DIVISIONS to become double champ in the most difficult way possible, only to get knocked out cold in the final minutes of the match he was running away with.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst Booking Decision of the Year:

Re-booking Maverick vs Young 7 days after Shanna got Covid, then immediately needing to hospitalize her

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Fentry posted:

KO of the Year: Demetrious Johnson vs Adriano Moraes, Knee, ONE on Prime Video 1

https://twitter.com/FTBeard7/status/1563385998171447297

Yes

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Most Improved Fighter of the Year

Benoit Saint-Denis coming back with 2 dominant wins after taking one of the worst beatings of 2021.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Dumbest Career Move:

Khamzat Chimaev - a lay-up fight away from being handed the title on a silver platter - starts a near riot while not named Connor McGregor and missed weight by eight pounds leading Dana White to muse publically that maybe Belal deserves a title shot more.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst Refereeing Mistake of the Year

Chase Hooper vs Steve Garcia

Herb Dean waits to see the ground n pound after chase hooper gets knocked down 4 times in a single round

Submission of the Year:

Treasan Gore nearly rips off Josh Fremd's head using a guillotine to swing his body around 360 degrees putting him on the mat out cold

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Best trash talk of the year: whatever the hell Moicano was saying after stealing the mic and and going on a long and almost completely beeped out rant

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Round of the year: Poirier - Chandler Round 1

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Worst corner gameplan of the year: "Obviously she can't stop you on the ground", immediately gives up a crucifix and taps out

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Jerusalem posted:

Show of the Year: UFC 281 11/12

This card had EVERYTHING, early prelims to prelims to the main card was just a fantastic watch.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Breakout fighter of the Year: Alex Pereira goes from a 4-1 fighter with 1 fight in the majors to a 7-1 UFC champion in a calendar year.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

CarlCX posted:

I hate this, because it was so intentional and artificial, but it's also going to be real hard to beat.

All sport is artificial

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COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

I'd like to nominate a couple fights that are arguably worse than Namajunas - Esparza.

Worst Fight of the Year

Bader vs Kongo 2, with two very large men avoiding any physical contact for minutes at a time of throwing then falling onto each other and lying there breathing heavily for the rest of the round, until Cheick literally looked like he was having a heart attack from the physical effort of throwing WMMA air jabs and refused to get off the canvas for the decision.

- OR -

Storely - MVP, which had approximately two things happen each round (an MVP punch and a Storely takedown), for one of the most egregious examples of one dimensional fighters making GBS threads the bed in around 5 or so years I've been watching MMA.

Unlike Namajunas - Esparza neither of them had any upside, like being funny as hell, making Dana mad, or destroying Rose's chance at a redemption arc. They also both happened within like 10 days which really maximised the psychic damage.


Speaking of which:

Greatest schadenfreude of the year:

Rose: "I'm the best!" - then performs so abysmally that she probably won't get a chance to win her title back from someone she already beat twice.

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