Bleacher Report 2008 UFC Awards: I Need Your Help!
After almost three weeks away from this great site, I'm back, and I have another idea for a community article. Now I'm sure by now we've all seen numerous articles relating to handing out awards to numerous MMA categories.
But their is one thing flawed about pretty much all of them. They all are written by one person, and only that person's vote counts. It's time to change that.
About one month ago I, no, we, the Bleacher Report community put together the first ever B/R MMA power rankings. It was so successful that I hope to put another together soon after Ultimate 2008.
Before we do that, I want to put together the first ever B/R MMA Awards article. But I'm going to need your help.
I need everyone that reads this article to cast their vote for the categories I provide here. There is one catch though, being that not everyone here is hardcore MMA fans, I will only be using the UFC. Here are the categories and their nominees...
Fighter of The Year
- Anderson Silva
- Georges St. Pierre
- Thiago Alves
- Forrest Griffin
- Brock Lesnar
- BJ Penn
- Michael Bisping
Fight of the Year
- Rampage Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin
- Jon Fitch vs. GSP
- BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk
- Chris Lytle vs. Paul Taylor
- Paul Kelly vs. Paul Taylor
Biggest Surprise Fighter of the Year
- Thiago Alves
- Brock Lesnar
- Dustin Hazelett
- Demian Maia
- Kenny Florian
Most Disappointing Fighter of the Year
- Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
- Joe Stevenson
- Brandon Vera
Knockout of the Year
- Chris Leben KO's Alession Sakara
- Wanderlei Silva KO's Keith Jardine
- Rashad Evans KO's Chuck Liddell
- Junior Dos Santos KO's Fabricio Werdum
- Josh Koscheck KO's Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Submission of the Year
- Demian Maia submits Ed Herman by Triangle
- Demian Maia submits Jason Macdonald by RNC
- Dustin Hazelett submits Josh Burkman by flying armbar
- Dustin Hazelett submits Tamdan McCrory by reverse armbar
"Holy S**T!!!" Moment of the Year
- Rashad KO's the KO master Chuck Liddell
- Forrest Griffin shocks the world and beats Rampage Jackosn
- Corey Hill snaps leg in half
- Joe Stevenson bleeds like a faucet against BJ Penn
- Junior Dos Santos sends Fabricio Werdum into next week
- UFC releases Jon Fitch
- Brock Lesnar beats legend Randy Couture for UFC Heavyweight title
PPV of the Year
- UFC 91
- UFC 92*
- UFC 87
- UFC 86
- UFC 84
- UFC 80
Now it's up to the B/R community. Now I want you all to wait until after UFC 92 to vote. If you feel that something happens like a great match or insane KO or anything like that tops any other nominees for a certain category, feel free to choose that instead of what I have listed here.
Can't wait to see the final results. Happy Holidays.
