This Thursday the Oscar of the mixed martial arts world, the MMA Awards, were held in Las Vegas, and Jon Jones met expectations by winning the statue for best fighter of the year. Check out the other winners:
European Fighter of the Year
Nominees: Michael Bisping (England), Alexander Gustafsson (Sweden), Joachim Hansen (Norway), Alistair Overeem (Holland) and Dennis Siver (Germany)
Winner: Alistair Overeem
Gym of the Year
Nominees: Alliance MMA, Black House, Jackson’s MMA, Roufusport and Xtreme Couture
Winner: Black House
Referee of the Year
Herb Dean, “Big” John McCarthy, Dan Miragliotta, Josh Rosenthal and Mario Yamasaki
Winner: Herb Dean
Comeback of the Year
Marloes Coenen against Liz Carmouche at “Strikeforce: Feijão vs. Henderson”, Cheick Kongo against Pat Barry at UFC Live 5, Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira (career), Tito Ortiz (career) and Joe Warren against Joe Soto at Bellator 27
Winner: Cheick Kongo
Best Equipment Brand
Bad Boy, Everlast, Hayabusa, Rival and Venum
Winner: Everlast
MMA Journalist of the Year
Finalistas: John Morgan, Gareth A. Davies, Josh Gross, Ariel Helwani and Ben Fowlkes
Winner: Ariel Helwani
Coach of the Year
Rafael Cordeiro, Eric Del Fierro, Cesar Gracie, Greg Jackson and Shawn Tompkins
Winner: Greg Jackson
Best Clothing Brand
Affliction, Bad Boy, Form Athletics, RVCA and Tapout
Winner: Tapout
Event of the Year
BAMMA, Bellator Fighting Championships, DREAM, Strikeforce and UFC
Winner: UFC
Media Outlet of the Year
“Inside MMA” on HDNet, MMAFighting.com, “MMA Live” on ESPN, MMAjunkie.com and Sherdog.com
Winner: MMAjunkie.com
Best Technical Clothing Brand
Bad Boy, Hayabusa, Jaco, Sprawl and Venum
Winner: Bad Boy
MMA Personality of the Year
Bruce Buffer, Jacob “Stitch” Duran, Joe Rogan, Bas Rutten and Burt Watson
Winner: Joe Rogan
Female Fighter of the Year
Marloes Coenen, Zoila Gurgel, Sarah Kaufman, Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate
Winner: Miesha Tate
Ring Entrance of the Year
Yoshihiro Akiyama at UFC 133, Vitor Belfort at UFC 133, Dave Herman at UFC 131, Mark Hominick at UFC 129 e Jason “Mayhem” Miller at DREAM.16
Winner: Jason “Mayhem” Miller
Revelation of 2011
Donald Cerrone, Daniel Cormier, Phil Davis, Demetrious Johnson and Brian Stann
Winner: Donald Cerrone
Submission of the Year
Chan Sung Jung on Leonard Garcia at UFC Fight Night 24, Pablo Garza on Yves Jabouin at UFC 129, Richard Hale on Nik Fekete at Bellator 38, Vinny Magalhães on Viktor Nemkov at M-1 Challenge 25, and Tito Ortiz on Ryan Bader no UFC 132
Winner: Chan Sung Jung
Ring-Girl of the Year
Arianny Celeste, Kelli Hutcherson, Brittney Palmer, Chandella Powell and Mercedes Terrell
Winner: Arianny Celeste
Leading Man of the Year
Scott Coker, Lorenzo Fertitta, Marc Ratner, Bjorn Rebney and Dana White
Winner: Dana White
Knockout of the Year
Patricky “Pitbull” Freire against Toby Imada at Bellator 39, Cheick Kongo against Pat Barry at UFC Live 5, John Makdessi against Kyle Watson at UFC 129, Lyoto Machida against Randy Couture at UFC 129, and Anderson Silva against Vitor Belfort at UFC 126
Winner: Anderson Silva
Fight of the Year
José Aldo against Mark Hominick at UFC 129, Dominick Cruz against Urijah Faber at UFC 132, Frankie Edgar against Gray Maynard at UFC 125, Nick Diaz against Paul Daley at “Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley”, and Diego Sanchez against Martin Kampmann at UFC Live 3
Winner: Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard
Fighter of the Year
Dominick Cruz, Nick Diaz, Dan Henderson, Jon Jones and Anderson Silva
Winner: Jon Jones
