MMA Decade Awards

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Jan 29, 2005
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Back in the day I used to post yearly MMA awards when this forum was active. Thought it would be fun to post some "of the decade" awards since the decade is coming to a close next week.

FIGHTER OF THE DECADE: Jon "Bones" Jones

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Daniel Cormier, Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson

FIGHT OF THE DECADE: Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald 2: 2015

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Shogun Rua vs. Dan Henderson: 2011, Mark Hunt vs. Bigfoot Silva: 2013

FIGHT TEAM OF THE DECADE: American Kickboxing Academy

HONORABLE MENTIONS: American Top Team, Jackson-Wink

KO OF THE DECADE: Jorge Masvidal's flying knee on Ben Askren: 2019

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Anderson Silva's front kick on Vitor Belfort: 2011, Conor McGregor's 12 second KO of Jose Aldo: 2015

SUBMISSION OF THE DECADE: Korean Zombie's twister on Leonard Garcia: 2011

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Anderson Silva's 5th round hail mary triangle choke on Chael Sonnen: 2010, Ben Saunders' omoplata on Chris Heatherly: 2014, Ovince Saint Preux's 1st Von Flue choke on Nikita Krylov: 2014

FIGHTERS OF THE DECADE BY WEIGHT CLASS:

Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic: 2x UFC Champion, 3 title defenses

Light Heavyweight: Jon "Bones" Jones: 3x UFC Champion, 1x UFC Interim Champion, 10 title defenses, undefeated through entire decade

Middleweight: Anderson "Spider" Silva: Won title last decade, defended title 5 times this decade (10 times total)

Welterweight: Georges St-Pierre: Won title last decade, defended title 6 times this decade (9 times total), went up in weight after 4 year absense and won title in a higher weight class

Lightweight: Khabib Nurmagomedov: 1x UFC Champion, 2 title defenses, undefeated through entire decade

Featherweight: Jose Aldo: 1x WEC/UFC Champion, 9 title defenses, 1x UFC Interim Champion

Bantamweight: Dominick Cruz: 2x WEC/UFC Champion, 5 title defenses

Flyweight: Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson: 1x UFC Champion, 11 title defenses, 1x ONEFC Champion

Women's Featherweight: Cris Cyborg: 1x Strikeforce Champion, 2 title defenses, 1x Invicta Champion, 3 title defenses, 1x UFC Champion, 2 title defenses

Women's Bantamweight: Amanda Nunes: 1x UFC Champion, 5 title defenses, 1x UFC Champion at higher weight class

Women's Flyweight: Valentina "Bullet" Schevchenko: 1x UFC Champion, 2 title defenses

Women's Straweight: Joanna Jedrzejczyk: 1x UFC Champion, 5 title defenses
 
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I was going to mention max over jose cuz I wasn't sure about the number of title defenses but even Max says Aldo is the greatest.

Honorable mentions for fight of the decade: Jon jones vs Gustafson 1
Style bender vs Kelvin

My .02. But great list breh
 
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