[Official] r/mma’s Best of 2019 Voting Thread
It’s that time of year again! r/mma will decide the highlights of 2019 and our favorite cartoon man /u/tommytoehold will create our video. The results of each month’s ‘Best of’ to populate our voting choices. [The links to each month are along the bottom of this post].
So how to do this damn thing you might ask?
First, read our long, carefully curated post to see the nominations.
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- Voting will close January 20th @ 11:59 pm EST. That’s all!
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Most WTF Moment of 2019 The Nominees:
- TJ Dillashaw receiving a two year suspension for EPO
- Lobov out point boxing a former champion boxer
- Jorge Masvidal flying knee on Ben Askren
- Yoel distracting Costa by pointing away, and then knocking him down
- Robert Whittaker pulling out the day of the fight with a hernia
- Ben Rothwell kicking Stefan Struve square in the nuts and not getting a point taken only to kick him in the nuts again
- Nick Diaz talking about wanting to come back
- Yair’s eyepoke of Stephens cutting the fight short
- Greg Hardy inhaler incident
- Jessica Andrade dumping Rose Namajunas on her head at the very moment Dominic Cruz was saying she canβt slam her
- Greg Hardy’s illegal knee of Allen Crowder
- Usman dominating Woodley
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Best Male Fighter of 2019: This award is handed out based on the performance(s) of a fighter during the year 2019. Fighters don’t get credit for earlier work.
The Nominees:
- Israel Adesanya
- Henry Cejudo
- Dustin Poirier
- Cowboy Cerrone
- Kamaru Usman
- Alexander Volkanovski
- Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson
- Stipe Miocic
- Jorge Masvidal
- Khabib Nurmagomedov
- Marlon Moraes
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Breakout Male Fighter of 2019: This award is handed out based on the performance(s) of a fighter during the year 2019. Fighters don’t get credit for earlier work.
The Nominees:
- Jack Hermansson
- Dan Hooker
- Leon Edwards
- Tristan Connelly
- Johnny Walker
- Gregor Gillespie
- Khama Worthy
- Michel Perreria
- Alexsander Rakic
- Edmen Shahbazyan
- Chase Hooper
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Best Female Fighter of 2019: This award is handed out based on the performance(s) of a fighter during the year 2019. Fighters don’t get credit for earlier work.
The Nominees:
- Ilima-Lei MacFarlane
- Weili Zhang
- Amanda Nunes
- Valentina Shevchenko
- Montana de la Rosa
- Irene Aldana
- Katlyn Chookagian
- Jessica Andrade
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk
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Breakout Female Fighter of 2019: This award is handed out based on the performance(s) of a fighter during the year 2019. Fighters don’t get credit for earlier work.
The Nominees:
- Ilima-Lei MacFarlane
- Felicia Spencer
- Joanne Calderwood
- Miranda Maverick
- Alexa Grasso
- Pannie Kianzad
- Emily Whitmire
- Weili Zhang
- Viviane Araujo
- Amanda Ribas
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Worst Fight of 2019 The Nominees:
- Greg Hardy v Dmitry Smolyakov
- MVP vs Paul Daley
- Greg Hardy vs Allen Crowder
- John Makdessi vs Jesus Pinedo
- Alexander Hernandez vs Francisco Trinaldo
- Rory Macdonald vs Douglas Lima 2
- Darren Stewart vs Bevon Lewis
- Ben Rothwell vs Stefan Struve
- Ronaldo Souza vs Jan BΕachowicz
- Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens 1
- Valentina Shevchenko vs. Liz Carmouche
- Elias Theodorou vs Derek Brunson
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Best Rivalry of 2019 The Nominees:
- Daniel Cormier vs Stipe Miocic
- Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens
- Curtis Blaydes vs Justin Willis
- Patricio Pitbull vs Michael Chandler
- MVP vs. Paul Daley
- Kumaru Usman vs Colby Covington
- Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya
- Paulie Malignaggi vs Artem Lobov
- Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz
- Jorge Masvidal vs Ben Askren
- Donald Cerrone vs. Alexander Hernandez
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Tragically_English Spinning Sh!t Award of 2019 The Nominees:
- Tony Ferguson with 4 spinning back elbows on Cerrone
- Cory Sandhagen’s flying knee
- Steven Peterson spinning backfist KO over Martin Bravo
- Badr Hari tearing his knee to shreds with a wheel kick
- Spike Carlyle’s back fist against Matthew Calquhoun
- Johnny Walker: Spinning back-fist
- Junior Dos Santos spinning back kick to Derrick Lewis
- Davy Gallon’s rolling thunder KO
- Ryan “Uriah” Hall knocking down Darren Elkins with a spinning kick
- Raymond Daniels’ 720 finisher vs. Wilker Barro
- Ben Askren’s spinning shit against Maia
- Magomed Mustafaev spinning back kick on Rafael Fiziev
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Best Image of 2019 The Nominees:
- Robbie Lawler throwing Ben Askren
- Aldo liver punching Moicano
- Cejudo with his snake at the presser
- Champion Dustin being crowned
- PVZ Sports Illustrated
- Locker Room Cerrone and Ferguson
- Jorge Masvidal flying knee on Ben Askren
- Mike Perry’s broken nose
- Khabib choking out Poirier
- Izzy vs Rob
- Kevin Lee vs Gregor Gillespie
- Overeem’s upper lip
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2019 Quote of the Year The Nominees:
- “I was going for the single leg” – TJ Dillashaw
- “Mehn, I jus wan to tell you guys, you almos lost main event, I had diarrhea all week…bad, I catch the mosquito…” – Marlon Moraes
- “Big Titty go home!” – Curtis Blaydes
- ‘I, coach Cal…’ – Sam Calavitta
- “So the best acronym I could think of is a juice box because Chael is a juicy, juice boy.β – Tito Ortiz
- Alonzo Menifield’s coach repeatedly yelling ‘Hit him with that 11 22 Lazer”
- “It was super necessary” – Jorge Masvidal
- “Letβs talk about the lesson we learned tonight that Robbie should have learned from his good buddy Matt Hughes, You stay off the tracks when the train is coming through, junior’ – Colby Chaos Covington
- “This is sucks” – Francis Ngannou
- “But have you ever had malaria? I had it 8 times as a kid.” Israel Adesanya
- “don’t trip I got ur bitchasss” – Nate Diaz
- “The only PED I done was the viagra pill I took to absolutely monster your ma you silly little muppet.” – Darren Till
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Best Submission of 2019 The Nominees:
- Rafael dos Anjos submitting Kevin Lee
- Misha Cirkunov Hits Peruvian Necktie on Jim Crute
- Raymond Ramos triangle of Alberto Blas
- Bryce Mitchellβs twister on Matt Sayles
- Randy Browns triangle over Warrley Alves
- Edmen Shahbazyan RNC on Jack Marshman
- Marlon Moraes mounted guillotine over Rafael Assuncao
- Nikita Krylov submitting OSP
- Denis Goltsov ezekiel choke on Kelvin Tiller
- Mads Burnell Japanese Necktie over Dean Trueman
- Jack Hermansson’s guillotine against David Branch
- Damian Maia RNC of Ben Askren
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Best KO of 2019 The Nominees:
- Douglas Lima KO of MVP
- Jorge Masvidal flying knee on Ben Askren
- Valentina Shevchenko head kick of Jessica Eye
- Weili Zhang TKOing a bum rushing Andrade
- Khalid Taha’s 25 second KO of Boston Salmon
- Irene Aldana KO of Ketlen Vieira
- Kevin Lee headkick KO of Gregor Gillespie
- Stipe Miocic beating the breaks off DC
- Steven Peterson spinning backfist KO over Martin Bravo
- Niko Price Upkicking James Vick
- Johnny Walker’s hook kick to spinning back fist KO of Justin Ledet
- Henry Corrales KO of Aaron Pico
- Anthony Pettis off the cage superman punch of Wonderboy
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YouReekAh Award for Meme/Photoshop of 2019 The Nominees (not every month had a nomination):
- Jon Jones Fresh Prince of USADA
- animated Izzy Anderson promo
- Helen Yee Harem
- Yair vs Stephens 2 poster
- 3 Piece and a soda
- Lima summons MjΓΆlnir vs MVP
- Ariel ‘Under The Sea’ Helwani
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Best Round of 2019 The Nominees:
- Yoel Romero vs Paulo Costa rnd 1
- Nate Diaz vs Jorge Masvidal rnd 4
- Misha Cirkunov vs. Jim Crute rnd 1
- Donald Cerrone vs Anthony Hernandez rnd 1
- Cody Garbrandt vs Pedro Munhoz rnd 1
- Brad Riddell vs. Jamie Mullarkey rnd 3
- Vicente Luque vs Bryan Barberena rnd 3
- Deiveson Figueiredo vs Alexandre Pantoja rnd 2
- Jessica Andrade vs Rose Namajunas rnd 1
- Kumaru Usman vs Colby Covington rnd 5
- Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya rnd 5
- Marlin Moraes vs Henry Cejudo rnd 2
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Best Fight of 2019 The Nominees:
- Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya
- Deiveson Figueiredo vs Alexandre Pantoja
- Vicente Luque vs Bryan Barberena
- Stephen Thompson vs Vicente Luque
- Donald Cerrone vs Anthony Hernandez
- Yoel Romero vs Paulo Costa
- Donald Cerrone vs. Al Iaquinta
- Edson Barboza vs. Paul Felder
- Niko Price vs Tim Means
- Tony Ferguson vs Donald Cerrone
- Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens 2
- Colby Covington vs Kamaru Usman
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Best Coach (First and last name, please) β
Best UFC Event of the Year β
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Nomination threads for 2019:
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