2011 World MMA Awards Results
The 2011 World MMA Awards took place tonight at the Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas Nevada. The show was hosted by outspoken UFC middleweight Chael Sonnen, and included awards for categories such as “Fighter Of The Year”, “KO Of The Year”, and “Fight Of The Year” (between the dates September 1st, 2010 and August 31st, 2011). The following were tonight’s nominees and award winners for all 22 categories:
International Fighter of the Year
NOMINEES:
Michael Bisping
Alexander Gustafsson
Joachim Hansen
Alistair Overeem
Dennis Siver
Winner: Alistair Overeem
Gym of the Year
NOMINEES:
Alliance MMA
Black House
Jackson’s MMA
Roufusport
Xtreme Couture
Winner: Black House
Referee of the Year
NOMINEES:
Herb Dean
“Big” John McCarthy
Dan Miragliotta
Josh Rosenthal
Mario Yamasaki
Winner: Herb Dean
Comeback of the Year
NOMINEES:
Marloes Coenen vs. Liz Carmouche (Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson)
Cheick Kongo vs. Pat Barry (UFC Live 5)
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (career)
Tito Ortiz (career)
Joe Warren vs. Joe Soto (Bellator 27)
Winner: Cheick Kongo
Best Technical Equipment
NOMINEES:
Bad Boy
Everlast
Hayabusa
Rival
Venum
Winner: Everlast
Journalist of the Year
NOMINEES:
John Morgan
Gareth A. Davies
Josh Gross
Ariel Helwani
Ben Fowlkes
Winner: Ariel Helwani
Coach of the Year
NOMINEES:
Rafael Cordeiro
Eric Del Fierro
Cesar Gracie
Greg Jackson
Shawn Tompkins
Winner: Greg Jackson
Best Lifestyle Clothing
NOMINEES:
Affliction
Bad Boy
Form Athletics
RVCA
TapouT
Winner: TapouT
Promotion of the Year
NOMINEES:
BAMMA
Bellator Fighting Championships
DREAM
Strikeforce
UFC
Winner:UFC
Media Source of the Year
NOMINEES:
“Inside MMA” on HDNet
MMAFighting.com
“MMA Live” on ESPN
MMAjunkie.com
Sherdog.com
Winner: MMAJunkie.com
Best Technical Clothing
NOMINEES:
Bad Boy
Hayabusa
Jaco
Sprawl
Venum
Winner: Bad Boy
Personality of the Year
NOMINEES:
Bruce Buffer
Jacob “Stitch” Duran
Joe Rogan
Bas Rutten
Burt Watson
Winner: Joe Rogan
Female Fighter of the Year
NOMINEES:
Marloes Coenen
Zoila Gurgel
Sarah Kaufman
Ronda Rousey
Miesha Tate
Winner: Miesha Tate
Entrance of the Year
NOMINEES:
Yoshihiro Akiyama (UFC 133)
Vitor Belfort (UFC 133)
Dave Herman (UFC 131)
Mark Hominick (UFC 129)
Jason “Mayhem” Miller (DREAM.16)
Winner: Jason “Mayhem” Miller
Breakthrough Fighter of the Year
NOMINEES:
Donald Cerrone
Daniel Cormier
Phil Davis
Demetrious Johnson
Brian Stann
Winner: Donald Cerrone
Submission of the Year
NOMINEES:
Chan Sung Jung vs. Leonard Garcia (UFC Fight Night 24)
Pable Garza vs. Yves Jabouin (UFC 129)
Richard Hale vs. Nik Fekete (Bellator 38)
Vinny Magalhaes vs. Viktor Nemkov (M-1 Challenge 25)
Tito Ortiz vs. Ryan Bader (UFC 132)
Winner: Chan Sung Jung
Ring Girl of the Year
NOMINEES:
Arianny Celeste
Kelli Hutcherson
Brittney Palmer
Chandella Powell
Mercedes Terrell
Winner: Arianny Celeste
Leading Man of the Year
NOMINEES:
Scott Coker
Lorenzo Fertitta
Marc Ratner
Bjorn Rebney
Dana White
Winner: Dana White
KO of the Year
NOMINEES:
Patricky “Pitbull” Freire vs. Toby Imada (Bellator 39)
Cheick Kongo vs. Pat Barry (UFC Live 5)
John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson (UFC 129)
Lyoto Machida vs. Randy Couture (UFC 129)
Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort (UFC 126)
Winner: Anderson Silva
Fight of the Year
NOMINEES:
Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick (UFC 129)
Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber (UFC 132)
Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard (UFC 125)
Nick Diaz vs. Paul Daley (Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley)
Diego Sanchez vs. Martin Kampmann (UFC Live 3)
Winner: Edgar vs. Maynard
Fighter of the Year
NOMINEES:
Dominick Cruz
Nick Diaz
Dan Henderson
Jon Jones
Anderson Silva
Winner: Jon Jones
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Shawn Tompkins
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Female Fighter of the Year
Winner: Miesha Tate
i love me some miesha tate
+1
You finally switched back to liking chicks E? Lmao jk playa..
Miller’s walk-in was indeed legendary! Just a funny dude! Bonkers!
Congratulations Jon ‘Bones’ Jones, for a well deserved ‘Fighter of the year’ achievement, well done!
Bader,Rua,Jackson and now Machida all in a one year span….no one else is even a close second!
I cannot believe Silva only won one. This is ridiculous.
Yeah anderson silva deserved fighter of the year.Jon jones is too cocky
Personality has nothing to do with being fighter of the year. You sound ignorant
Jones deserved it. He is always improving. Who care if he is cocky? You ever watch Silva vs. Demian maia? Embarrassing for Silva
hows that embarressing for silva? he was smashing maia the whole ****ing fight.. i rather watch silva fight like that, then lay n prey bullshit
silva deserved fighter of the year by far!!
by far?? No way. I think it was close between those too for sure. Jones fought four times and silva fought 3 times. Jones dominated every fighter he faced while Silva dominated vitor and yushin he squeeked by against Sonnen.
so i think jones deserves it. cocky or not now he is a beast.
Anderson is GQ sportsman of the year..something Jones will never be. So..
how the **** is cormier not the breakthrough fighter of the year. cerrone is great but come on, cormiers year literally defined breakthrough
He only had one recognized fight while cerrione has been on a terror smh
its “cerrone has been on a tear” as in a “tear through the division” as in “tearing it up”
i wish you could “like” posts sometimes on here sometimes, +1 sir
I agree man, Cornier deserved it win it for sure!! wtf donald cerrone do? **** ALL! THATS WHAT
Cerrone beat a few nobodies lol…Cormier only made it to the finals of the Strikeforce tourny when he wasnt even in it.
What about best staredown?
How about we stack those ring girls up like pancakes and tear that UP!!!!
Edgar vs Maynard fight of the year? Shogun vs Hendo wasn’t even a nominee. Bull shit
The range was only from September 2010 through August 31st 2011. Hendo-Shogun will be a nominee next year.
if people saw bendo v guida that will win foty
will as in next year, gotta make sure that’s clear
WTF (excuse the language) how did Tito Ortiz miss out on come back of the year????????????? Can anyone tell me that?????/
did you see the kongo fight? thats how
Bcuz tito sucks and winning ONE fight does not warrant you for comeback of the year.
FIGHT OF THE YEAR WENT TO EDGAR MAYNARD? THAT FIGHT WASNT EVEN CLOSE TO FIGHT OF THE YEAR. BJ VS NICK OR HENDO SHOGUN. ALSO LYOTOS KICK WAS BETTER THAN ANDERSONS FOR KO OF THE YEAR. SORRY FOR CAPS
I thought Lyoto’s kick was better but he had more time to fine tune it with Steven Segaul than Anderson did :-/
lol
Ethan.. Your right on point w that! Anderson’s kick was 1 in a million ( lucky as FK).
How was Lyoto’s kick better? He landed it on a 47 year old with the worst head movement in the ufc.
International fighter of the year alistair overeem??? He’s a great athlete but all he did was beat werdum in one of the worst headliners of the year and ko’d Duffey. What about silva, GSP, dos santos, Aldo, Lombard to name a few.
Overeem was the Strikeforce champion and a K1 Champion oh and A Dream Champion in one year. Come with a better international fighters resume for 2011. *crickets* *crickets* *crickets*
It makes me happy Gsp didn’t win shit.
from Sept. 2010 to August 2011 he has fought, to decision, Josh Koshcheck and Jake Shields..
the only interesting thing he did all year was get butt hurt when Nick Diaz called him out… he recovered quickly from his butthurtedness though, now nick is the opponent he wants and thats about all he’ll say about it
Nope.. The saint didn’t win any awards.. Except 5 million dollars a fight and still has the WW belt! We know how important winning these awards are.. WHOA NELLIE big fkn deal!
Fight of the year should’ve went to Hendo v Shogun!
“Chris
The range was only from September 2010 through August 31st 2011. Hendo-Shogun will be a nominee next year.”
but yes i agree it was definitely a better fight, if it has any competition for next years awards then we’ll have one hell of a year of fights
Only one fight I can say will be close or better.. CHAELMONSTER v ANDERDOUCHESON 2! Andy’s shoulder is still fkd up from the Chael fight.. Lmao
i have a few problems. **** anderson winning ko of the year as if lyoto’s kick wasnt a million times better. and shawn tompkins should have won best trainer(not just because he’s dead) i mean any coach can give their fighters roids and grease em up. **** greg jackson
Don’t be stupid Steve.. Not a Jackson fan but he prepares his boys full tilt.
Anderson knocked out vitor in the first couple minutes and also was the first person to ko someone with a front kick. Lyotos was defiantly number 2 tho
Blackzillains are winning best gym next year.
Although I don’t like Jon Jones, he deserves fighter of the year over Anderson. How many times has Anderson fought this year?…
I agree with all of these decisions including EDGAR vs MAYNARD for fight of the year. Shogun vs Hendo is a better fight but didn’t meet the deadline. That would then warrant an award for best fight of all time.