Categories... BEST MMA JOURNALIST Candidates: John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/Dallas Morning News; Gareth A. Davies, Telegraph.com; Joe Ferraro, MMA Connected; Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports; Dave Meltzer, Yahoo! Sports/Wrestling Observer BEST MEDIA SOURCE Candidates: MMAjunkie.com, "Inside MMA" on HDNet, "MMA Connected" on Sportsnet, MMAWeekly.com, Sherdog.com BEST MMA SHORTS MANUFACTURER Candidates: ADX, Hayabusa, Sprawl, Tapout, Warrior BEST MMA GLOVES MANUFACTURER Candidates: Everlast MMA, Fairtex, Hayabusa, Triumph United, UFC BEST OVERALL MMA CLOTHING MANUFACTURER Candidates: Affliction, One More Round, Silverstar, TapouT, Toe2Toe BEST MMA BRAND Candidates: Bad Boy, Hayabusa, Silverstar, TapouT, UFC GYM OF THE YEAR Candidates: American Top Team, Black House MMA, Xtreme Couture, Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting, Wolfslair RING GIRL OF THE YEAR Candidates: Arianny Celeste, Edith LaBelle, Holly Madison, Natasha Wicks Logan Stanton COACH OF THE YEAR Candidates: Mark Dellagrotte, Greg Jackson, Ricardo Liborio, Greg Nelson, Shawn Tompkins FEMALE FIGHTER OF THE YEAR Candidates: Gina Carano, Megumi Fujii, Sarah Kaufman, Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos. Rosi Sexton BREAKTHROUGH FIGHTER OF THE YEAR Candidates: Shane Carwin, Dan Hardy, Jon Jones, Brock Lesnar, Cain Velasquez EUROPEAN FIGHTER OF THE YEAR Candidates: Mike Bisping, Fedor Emelianenko, Terry Etim, Dan Hardy, Gegard Mousasi LEADING MAN OF THE YEAR Candidates: Dana White, UFC president; Lorenzo Fertitta, UFC CEO; Scott Coker, Strikeforce founder and CEO; Charles "Mask" Lewis, TapouT co-founder; Joe Silva, UFC VP of talent relations BEST PROMOTION Candidates: UFC, Strikeforce, DREAM, WEC, Bellator SUBMISSION OF THE YEAR Candidates: 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, Demian Maia vs. Chael Sonnen at UFC 95 KO OF THE YEAR Candidates: Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell at UFC 88, Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping at UFC 100, Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans at UFC 98, Nate Marquart vs. Demian Maia at UFC 102, Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin at UFC 101 FIGHT OF THE YEAR Candidates: Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber at WEC 41, Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale, 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 FIGHTER OF THE YEAR Candidates: Georges St. Pierre, Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Mike Brown, Brock Lesnar
Gym of the Year... Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting Best MMA Gloves Manufacturer... Who Gives a Fuck (really, the UFC brand won, though) Best Overall MMA Clothing Manufacturer... Hoelzer Reich (LOL!) no, TapouT, but again, who cares... Breakthough Fighter of the Year... Brock Lesnar (really? he only had one damn fight)
Coach of the Year... Yoda Best MMA Brand... TapouT Best MMA Journalist... John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/Dallas Morning News Female Fighter of the Year... Cris Santos
KO of the Year... Dan Henderson def. Michael Bisping, UFC 100 Leading Man of the Year... Dana White Best MMA Shorts Manufacturer... TapouT Submission of the Year... Toby Imada def. Jorge Masvidal at Bellator 5
Best Promotion... The UFC Best Media Source... MMAJunkie.com Ring Girl of the Year... Arianni Celeste Special Lifetime Achievement Award... Charles Lewis
European Fighter of the Year... Gegard Mousasi Fight of the Year... Diego Sanchez def. Clay Guida, TUF 9 Finale Fighter of the Year... Georges St. Pierre
All those fighter of the year candidates are Zuffa guys. I wonder what kind of rant Dana would have gone on if Fedor won.
