Fighters Only 2009 MMA awards

The second annual Fighters Only MMA awards were last night in Las Vegas. The live show aired on Versus.com and will air on versus TV January 6th. They try to make the show close to any other awards so on these days with the funny host, performances and the skits that mock people. Well the show had all this, but none of it was good and that’s being very nice about it. I wasn’t around to see the first few Academy Awards or Grammy’s so maybe they were bad too when they just started. Enough with that bashing of the show, if you saw it you’ll understand what I mean. Lets get the main reason we forced ourselves to watch the whole show, the awards. (All awards were given based off fans votes)

FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

• Georges St. Pierre – Winner
• Lyoto Machida
• Anderson Silva
• Mike Brown
• Brock Lesnar

FIGHT OF THE YEAR

• Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber at WEC 41
• Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale – Winner (Diego accepted the award with a YES fist pump & proceeded to talk…was he drunk?)
• Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva at UFC 99
• Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir at UFC 100
• Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Randy Couture at UFC 102

KO OF THE YEAR

• Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell at UFC 88
• Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping at UFC 100 – Winner (Henderson thanked Dana White and the UFC & then through a small jab towards them)
• Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans at UFC 98
• Nate Marquart vs. Demian Maia at UFC 102
• Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin at UFC 101

SUBMISSION OF THE YEAR

• B.J. Penn vs. Kenny Florian at UFC 101
• Terry Etim vs. Justin Buchholz at UFC 99
• Dustin Hazelett vs. Tamdan McCrory at UFC 91
• Toby Imada vs. Jorge Masvidal at Bellator 5 – Winner
• Demian Maia vs. Chael Sonnen at UFC 95

BEST PROMOTION

• UFC – Winner
• Strikeforce
• DREAM
• WEC
• Bellator

LEADING MAN OF THE YEAR

• Dana White, UFC president – Winner
• Lorenzo Fertitta, UFC CEO
• Scott Coker, Strikeforce founder and CEO
• Charles “Mask” Lewis, TapouT co-founder
• Joe Silva, UFC VP of talent relations

EUROPEAN FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

• Mike Bisping
• Fedor Emelianenko
• Terry Etim
• Dan Hardy
• Gegard Mousasi – Winner (Accepted the award via taped message from teh airport)

BREAKTHROUGH FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

• Shane Carwin
• Dan Hardy
• Jon Jones
• Brock Lesnar – Winner
• Cain Velasquez

FEMALE FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

• Gina Carano
• Megumi Fujii
• Sarah Kaufman
• Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos – Winner
• Rosi Sexton

COACH OF THE YEAR

• Mark Dellagrotte
• Greg Jackson – Winner
• Ricardo Liborio
• Greg Nelson
• Shawn Tompkins

RING GIRL OF THE YEAR

• Arianny Celeste – Winner (Wow thank god she won so I could see her, did I say WOW?)
• Edith LaBelle
• Holly Madison
• Natasha Wickes
• Logan Stanton

GYM OF THE YEAR

• American Top Team
• Black House MMA
• Xtreme Couture
• Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting – Winner
• Wolfslair

BEST MMA BRAND

• Bad Boy
• Hayabusa
• Silverstar
• TapouT – Winner
• UFC

BEST OVERALL MMA CLOTHING MANUFACTURER

• Affliction
• One More Round
• Silverstar
• TapouT – Winner
• Toe2Toe

BEST MMA GLOVES MANUFACTURER

• Everlast MMA
• Fairtex
• Hayabusa
• Triumph United
• UFC – Winner

BEST MMA SHORTS MANUFACTURER

• ADX
• Hayabusa
• Sprawl
• Tapout – Winner
• Warrior

BEST MEDIA SOURCE

• MMAjunkie.com – Winner
• “Inside MMA” on HDNet
• “MMA Connected” on Sportsnet
• MMAWeekly.com
• Sherdog.com

BEST MMA JOURNALIST

• John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/Dallas Morning News – Winner
• Gareth A. Davies, Telegraph.com
• Joe Ferraro, “MMA Connected”
• Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
• Dave Meltzer, Yahoo! Sports/Wrestling Observer

SPECIAL ACHEIVEMENT (Not voted on by the public)

• Charlies “Mask” Lewis – Winner

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