End of the Year MMA Award Candidates

This is the only trophy I can afford
 to give fighters at the end of the year.

The end of the year is approaching which means that the Brutal Sports MMA awards are about to be bestowed to various fighters, organizations, and events.  Here is a look at the nominees, leave a comment if you want your voice to be heard.  Heading into the amazing end of the year lineup, many new candidates should emerge.  If I missed a potential award or award recipient then let me know of that as well so I can consider making tweaks before the end of the year awards become official.  Each award will get its own post breaking down just why I chose the winner.

2013 end of the year awards nominees (in no particular order):

Fight of the Year:

• Matt Grice vs Dennis Bermudez
• Diego Sanchez vs Gilbert Melendez
• Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson
• Wanderlei Silva vs Brian Stann
• Eddie Alvarez vs Michael Chandler 2

Round of the Year:

• Gilbert Melendez vs Diego Sanchez round 3
• Erik Koch vs Dustin Poirier round 1
• Wanderlei Silva vs Brian Stann round 1
• Jordan Mein vs Matt Brown round 1
• Matt Grice vs Dennis Bermudez round 3

Fighter of the Year:

• Vitor Belfort
• Chris Weidman
• Anthony Pettis
• Matt Brown
• Chad Mendes

KO of the Year:

• Cub Swanson "beautiful destruction" of Dennis Siver
• Vitor Belfort destroys Rockhold with a spinning kick
• Vitor Belfort is the first man to KO Dan Henderson, his 3rd head kick KO in 2013.
• Bigfoot Silva destroys Overeem in the 3rd round
• Mark Hunt breaks the jaw of Stefan Struve with a left hook KO

Submission of the Year:

• Werdum submits a legend in Big Nog
• Kenny Robertson unique suloev stretch submission of Brock Jardine
• Erick Silva slick submission of Jason High
• Anthony Pettis snatches Henderson's arm, and the title
• Josh Burkman chokes Jon Fitch unconscious in Fitch's WSOF debut

Beatdown of the Year:

• Jeremy Stephens bloodies up Estevan Payan in a 3 round beatdown
• Cain Velasquez beats up JDS in trilogy fight
• Jessica Andrade whoops Rosi Sexton for 3 rounds
• TJ Grant punishes Matt Wiman and Gray Maynard nonstop in his 2 rounds of work in 2013
• Court McGee lands hundreds of strikes in win over Josh Neer

Event of the Year:

• UFC 166: JDS vs Velasquez 3
• UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis
• Fox 7: Henderson vs Melendez
• UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche
• UFC 162: Silva vs Weidman

Upset of the Year:

• Chris Weidman KO's Anderson Silva to take the middeweight belt
• Emmanuel Newton spinning backfist of King Mo, and a decision win in the rematch
• Bigfoot Silva comeback against Alistair Overeem
• Josh Burkman submits Jon Fitch
• Ashlee Evans-Smith is the first woman to defeat transgendered fighter Fallon Fox

Worst Decision of the Year:

• Bobby Green beats James Krause via groin kick TKO
• Lyoto Machida loses a decision in Brazil to Phil Davis
• Dan Henderson loses not 1, but 2 split decisions to Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans
• Eddie Alvarez "wins" rematch against Michael Chandler
• Gilbert Melendez gets robbed of the lightweight title in a controversial loss to Benson Henderson

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