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World MMA Awards 2012 Results

World MMA Awards 2012 Results - MMA Fighting

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The complete list of finalists (the winners are in bold):

Charles "Mask" Lewis Fighter of the Year

Daniel Cormier

Nate Diaz

Benson Henderson

Jon Jones (winner)

Ronda Rousey

Female Fighter of the Year

Jessica Aguilar

Sarah Kaufman

Sara McMann

Ronda Rousey (winner)

Miesha Tate

Breakthrough Fighter of the Year

Renan Barao

Michael Chandler

Luke Rockhold

Ronda Rousey

Chris Weidman (winner)

International Fighter of the Year

Michael Bisping (winner)

Alexander Gustafsson

Chan Sung Jung

Martin Kampmann

Stefan Struve

Fight of the Year

Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (UFC 139)

Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez (Bellator 58)

Jake Ellenberger vs. Diego Sanchez (UFC on FUEL TV 1)

Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung (UFC on FUEL TV 3)

Jamie Varner vs. Joe Lauzon (UFC on FOX 4) (winner)

Knockout of the Year

Adam Khaliev vs. Alexei Belyaev (League S-70)

Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim (UFC 142) (winner)

Stephen Thompson vs. Dan Stittgen (UFC 143)

Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon (UFC 144)

Brian Rogers vs. Vitor Vianna (Bellator 61)

Submission of the Year

Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140) (winner)

Charles Oliveira vs. Eric Wisely (UFC on FOX 2)

Rousimar Palhares vs. Mike Massenzio (UFC 142)

Ronda Rousey vs. Miesha Tate (Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey)

Chan Sung Jung vs. Dustin Poirier (UFC on FUEL TV 3)

Comeback of the Year

Alan Belcher (career)

Mike Swick (career)

Frank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (UFC 140) (winner)

Tim Boetsch vs. Yushin Okami (UFC 144)

J.P. Joubert vs. Norman Wessels (EFC Africa 15)

Shawn Tompkins Coach of the Year

Rafael Cordeiro (winner)

Cesar Gracie

Greg Jackson

Javier Mendez

Andre Pederneiras

Gym of the Year

American Kickboxing Academy

Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (winner)

Jackson-Winkeljohn MMA

Kings MMA

Nova Uniao

Referee of the Year

Herb Dean (winner)

Marc Goddard

John McCarthy

Josh Rosenthal

Mario Yamasaki

Ring Card Girl of the Year

Jade Bryce

Arianny Celeste

Kelli Hutcherson

Brittney Palmer (winner)

Mercedes Terrell

Leading Man of the Year

Victor Cui

Lorenzo Fertitta

Shannon Knapp

Bjorn Rebney

Dana White (winner)

Personality of the Year

Jon Anik

Bruce Buffer

Mauro Ranallo

Joe Rogan (winner)

Bas Rutten

Best Promotion

Bellator

Invicta FC

ONE FC

Strikeforce

UFC (winner)

Best Lifestyle Clothing Brand

Bad Boy (winner)

Dethrone

Headrush

Punishment

TapouT

Best Technical Clothing Brand

Bad Boy

Clinch Gear (winner)

Hayabusa

Jaco

Venum

Best Technical Equipment

Everlast

Fairtex

Hayabusa

Pretorian (winner)

Venum

MMA Media Source of the Year

MMAFighting.com

ESPN

"Inside MMA" on AXS TV

MMAjunkie.com

Sherdog.com (winner)

MMA Journalist of the Year

Ariel Helwani, MMAFighting.com/FUEL TV (winner)

Karyn Bryant, MMA HEAT/FUEL TV

Gareth A. Davies, The Telegraph

Ben Fowlkes, MMAjunkie.com/USA TODAY

John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/USA TODAY

Lifetime Achievement Award

Leon Tabbs

These awards suck.

Sherdog sucks, Ariel Helwani sucks, Alex Gustafsson was way more impressive than Bisping for international fighter of the year award (Bisping beat Stann and lost to Sonnen while Gus beat the Janitor, Shogun, and Thiago Silva lol), Ring Card girl of the year awards are fucking pointless-their just going to give one to a different girl every year, it's 100% biased towards the UFC...and isn't it funny how now all of a sudden that Dana had these disputes with Greg Jackson, and no Diaz missed any press conferences, that Cesar Gracie all of a sudden wins coach of the year award?

Also, Jamie Varner-Joe Lauzon wasn't NEAR as good of a fight as Shogun-Hendo or Chandler-Alvarez...or Zombie vs Poirier for that matter.

...and they had ESPN as a nominee for MMA Media source of the year award? Lol I don't know if they are trying to kiss ass or were just throwing random websites in at the last second or what but I find that pretty hilarious. MMAFighting.com or MMAJunkie.com should win every year with those available options.

How the fuck did Cesar Gracie gym win best gym? I think AKA should've taken that title. Gilbert Melendez had a poor showing, Nate Diaz got dominated by Bendo, Nick Diaz got beat by Condit. The only person I know of from their gym that won a fight was Jake shields who is about as entertaining as watching a snail pleasure itself.

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Originally Posted by CtGreat (Post 998002)

Not to mention both Shields and Nick being caught for drug infractions and getting suspended. Doesn't exactly sound like gym of the year to me.

How Gustaffson didn't get international fighter is a mystery to say the least.

Fighter of the Year :dancingsmile:

These awards are a friggin joke. Bisping winning international fighter of the year? Come on, the guy spent the year going 1-1. Struve went 3-0, Gustafsson went 2-0, Korean Zombie only fought once but at least it was an impressive victory. I would have given it to Struve but I could understand it going to anyone else other than Bisping.

this is what I think of these awards...:turd:

Damn, I would of thought Cung would at least be nominated for best KO. Franklin's head bounced off the canvas a couple of times. Some of the winners definitely did not make sense.