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Sherdog’s 2025 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another lively 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts. Rulebooks were amended. Cream rose to the top. Alliances formed....
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Sherdog’s 2024 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another impactful 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts. Rules changed. Drug testing relaxed. Promotions folded....
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Sherdog’s 2023 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another year is in the books, and the sport we love once again showed out in all its inspiring, frustrating, heartbreaking and hilarious glory.
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Sherdog’s 2022 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another impactful 12 months have somehow flown by in MMA, as the sport was rocked by an alleged betting scandal at its highest level,...
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Sherdog’s 2021 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another eventful 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts, as fans returned to live-action venues, titles changed hands and...
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Sherdog’s 2020 Year-End Awards: The Complete List As the worst global pandemic in more than a century hamstrung many sports leagues and brought others around the world to their knees in 2020,...
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Sherdog’s 2019 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another year has come and gone in mixed martial arts, and while the Ultimate Fighting Championship remains the industry leader, Bellator MMA, the Professional Fighters League, One Championship and...
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Sherdog.com’s 2018 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another year in mixed martial arts has come and gone, and while the UFC was again at the forefront the sport, Bellator, the PFL and One...
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Sherdog.com’s 2017 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another eventful 12 months have come and gone in mixed martial arts. Bellator MMA, the Professional Fighters League, Invicta Fighting Championships, Rizin Fighting Federation and One Championship all made significant moves, but...
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Sherdog.com’s 2016 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another memorable year has come and gone in the sport of mixed martial arts. Though Bellator MMA, the World Series of Fighting, Rizin Fighting Federation, One Championship and Invicta Fighting Championships all made moves, the...
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Sherdog.com’s 2015 Year-End Awards: The Complete List A monumental 12 months of mixed martial arts is outlined by Sherdog.com staff and contributors.
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Sherdog.com’s 2014 Year-End Awards: The Complete List A monumental 12 months of mixed martial arts is debated by Sherdog.com staff and contributors.
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Sherdog.com’s 2013 Year-End Awards: The Complete List The year is examined and critiqued by Sherdog.com staff and contributors.
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Sherdog.com’s 2012 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Sherdog.com honors the best of mixed martial arts in 2012.
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Sherdog.com's 2011 Awards: The Complete List From its very first day, when Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard staged a 25-minute classic for the ages at UFC 125 in Las Vegas, it was clear that...
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Sherdog 2010 Awards: The Complete List All of Sherdog's awards for 2010 in one place: Fighter of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Submission of the Year and much more.
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Sherdog's 2009 Awards: The Complete List All of Sherdog's awards for 2009 in one place: Fighter of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Submission of the Year and much more.
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Sherdog's 2008 Awards: The Complete List 2008 was an amazing year for the mixed martial arts landscape.
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Sherdog's 2007 Fighter of the Year Stardom had hung over Quinton "Rampage" Jackson's considerable shoulders since he stepped into the cage seven years ago against Marvin Eastman.
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Sherdog's 2006 Fighter of the Year There may have been more impressive in-ring performances from fighters over the past 12 months, but no mixed martial artist in 2006 had the same impact on the sport as...
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Sherdog's 2005 Fighter of the Year Sherdog.com has selected Brazilian Mauricio Rua and Japanese Takanori Gomi as its 2005 Fighter of the Year recipients. This is the first time...
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Sherdog's 2004 Fighter of the Year Sherdog.com has selected PRIDE middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva as its 2004 Fighter of the Year. Silva went unbeaten in three fights in...
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Sherdog's 2003 Fighter of the Year 2003 was a solid year for mixed martial arts. For starters, Pride bombarded us with their epic Middleweight (light heavyweight) Grand Prix, a...


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Sherdog’s 2025 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another lively 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts. Rulebooks were amended. Cream rose to the top. Alliances formed....
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Sherdog’s 2025 Comeback Fighter of the Year Just two years removed from a 1-4 skid and roundly counted out of the title hunt in the division he once ruled, Petr Yan completed a stunning return to the bantamweight mountaintop at...
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 31, 2025
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The Best and Worst of 2025 | Check The Kick Dev is joined by Sherdog's own Jay Pettry and Ben Duffy to discuss some of Sherdog's year-end awards for 2025, including a behind-the-curtain...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Entrance of the Year Paul Hughes delivered a spine-tingling entrance at PFL Belfast on May 10, which he then punctuated with a brutal knockout in front of an arena...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Ms. All-Violence Joselyne Edwards extended an unexpected run of finishes inside the Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight division with a pair of...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Breakthrough Fighter of the Year Joshua Van seemingly reached into the future and pulled himself forward, completing the journey from blue-chip prospect to UFC champion well...
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 29, 2025
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Sherdog’s 2025 Mr. All-Violence As we bring back our annual tribute to the sublimely violent, there could be only one man to usher in the new era.
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Sherdog’s 2025 Robbery of the Year “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 32 winner Mairon Santos escaped with a contentious and almost universally panned split decision over Francis Marshall as part of the...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Round of the Year Diego Lopes and Jean Silva engaged in an unforgettable firefight at UFC Fight Night 259 in Sept. 13 in San Antonio, and it reached peak...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Upset of the Year Petr Yan avenged a 2023 loss, recaptured the bantamweight strap and shocked the world with his one-sided handling of Merab Dvalishvili at UFC...
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Ben Duffy
Dec 26, 2025
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Sherdog’s 2025 Event of the Year When the smoke cleared at the conclusion of UFC 320 on Oct. 4, no other fight card could top it.
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Sherdog’s 2025 Beatdown of the Year For the second year in a row, Anthony Hernandez authored the signature beatdown of the year, this time with a pillar-to-post mauling of Roman Dolidze in the headliner of...
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 23, 2025
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Sherdog’s 2025 Submission of the Year Costello van Steenis wrested victory from the jaws of defeat—and separated Johnny Eblen from consciousness—in the dramatic main event of PFL...
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Ben Duffy
Dec 22, 2025
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Sherdog’s 2025 Fight of the Year Joshua Van needed proof that he belonged among the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s flyweight elite, and an unforgettable three-round...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Female Fighter of the Year Valentina Shevchenko recorded a pair of high-profile victories in defense of the undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s flyweight...
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Sherdog’s 2025 Male Fighter of the Year Joshua Van climbed to the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight division with four victories over the past 12 months.
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Sherdog’s 2025 Story of the Year The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Aug. 11 announced a seven-year, $7.7 billion media rights deal with Paramount, which marked the end of the...
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Sherdog’s 2024 Year-End Awards: The Complete List Another impactful 12 months have somehow come and gone in mixed martial arts. Rules changed. Drug testing relaxed. Promotions folded....
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Sherdog’s 2024 Upset of the Year At UFC Macau in November, Gabriella Fernandes throttled Cong Wang, silencing a partisan crowd and securing one of the biggest betting upsets...
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 26, 2024
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Sherdog’s 2024 Beatdown of the Year At "UFC Vegas 99" in October, Anthony Hernandez steamrolled Michel Pereira for four and a half brutal rounds.
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 25, 2024
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Sherdog’s 2024 Event of the Year UFC 300 featured three championship bouts and the “Fight of the Year” between Max Holloway and Justin Gaethje on April 13 at T-Mobile Arena...
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Sherdog’s 2024 Submission of the Year Khamzat Chimaev propelled himself into a likely title shot—and his opponent to the dentist—with his crushing face crank of Robert Whittaker...
Year-End Awards
Ben Duffy
Dec 23, 2024
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Sherdog’s 2024 Knockout of the Year In the last second of the last round of his remarkable “Fight of the Year” with Justin Gaethje at UFC 300, Max Holloway unleashed a nuclear...
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Sherdog’s 2024 Entrance of the Year Artur Szpilka’s flair for the dramatic reached new heights when he walked out for KSW 94 on May 11 in Gdansk, Poland.
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Sherdog’s 2024 Robbery of the Year Carlos Leal Miranda appeared to have a victory over Rinat Fakhretdinov in hand at UFC 308 on Oct. 26. Then the judges got involved.


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