Ninja's Place 2012 MMA Awards

Ninja's Place 2012 MMA Awards

What say youu Ninja's Place?

Fighter of the Year?

Female Fighter of the Year?

Non-Zuffa Fighter of the Year?

Fight of the Year?

Upset of the Year?

Card of the Year?

KO of the Year?

Sub of the Year?

Round of the Year?

Comeback (fight) of the Year?

Comeback (career) of the Year?

Camp of the Year?

Promotion of the Year?

Breakout of the Year?

Bust of the Year?

Need to Retire of the Year?

Ring Card Girl of the Year?

Story of the Year?

Most Popular fighter of the Year?

Most Hated fighter of the Year?

Referee of the Year?

Commentator of the Year?

Damn that's alot of categories. But all are fun to think about.

Some references to jog the memory.
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t19850-fight-of-the-year?highlight=year
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t18738-best-card-of-the-year-so-far?highlight=year
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t14099-top-5-subs-of-half-year?highlight=year
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t19126-submission-of-the-year-candidate?highlight=year

GDPofDRC wrote:

Ninja's Place 2012 MMA Awards

What say youu Ninja's Place?

Fighter of the Year?
Demetrious Johnson

Female Fighter of the Year?
Rhonda

Non-Zuffa Fighter of the Year?
All the best only fought once so its kind of tough to pick for me.

Fight of the Year?
Jung vs Poirier

Card of the Year?
UFC 147 (most won't agree, but the hype and being there sways me)

KO of the Year?
Barboza vs Etim (HM to Weidman vs Munoz)

Sub of the Year?
Kampmann vs Alves (best one that comes to mind)

Round of the Year?
Not sure on this one. Need to think.

Comeback (fight) of the Year?
Kampmann vs Alves

Comeback (career) of the Year?
Even with his latest loss I think Varner.

Camp of the Year?
Blackhouse / Team Nog

Promotion of the Year?
UFC every year

Breakout of the Year?
Gus - Beat Shogun and Silva, should be #1 contender or Mighty Mouse. No one expected him to win the Fly Tourney

Bust of the Year?
Overeem. 0 fights and got busted for roids.

Need to Retire of the Year?
BJ Penn (first person that comes to mind)

Ring Card Girl of the Year?
any, just pick one.

Story of the Year?
Sonnen v Jones / Cancellation of an event

Most Popular fighter of the Year?
Sonnen

Most Hated fighter of the Year?
Bones Jones

Referee of the Year?
Herb. Dan screwed up too often.

Commentator of the Year?
Always is Joe IMO

Just off the top of my head answers. I may need to change some or several.

non Zuffa fighter of the year might have to go to Nick Newell. 3-0 in 2012 and got himself a title. AA? If you count the Timmy fight as a win(I do) then he is 3-0 in 2012 as well. Michael Chandler only fought once in 2012 as did Pat Curran.
EA had a nice bounce back year beating Pitbull and Aoki both in the 1st round. I guess he deserves strong consideration considering strength of opponents.

Fighter of the Year?
Cub Swanson

Female Fighter of the Year?
Jessica Eye

Non-Zuffa Fighter of the Year?
Andrey Koreshkov

Fight of the Year?
Joe Lauzon vs Jamie Varner

Upset of the Year?
Jamie Varner over Edson Barboza

Card of the Year?
UFC 146

KO of the Year?
Rustam Khabilov vs. Vinc Pichel

Sub of the Year?
Demian Maia vs. Rick Story

Round of the Year?
Vitor Vianna vs Brian Rogers

Comeback (fight) of the Year?
Tim Boestch vs Yushin Okami

Comeback (career) of the Year?
Jamie Verner

Camp of the Year?
Nova União

Promotion of the Year?
UFC

Breakout of the Year?
Nick Newell

Bust of the Year?
Alistair Overeem and Nick Diaz

Ring Card Girl of the Year?
Dominique Alfaro

Story of the Year?
UFC 151 Canceled

Most Popular fighter of the Year?
Mark Hunt

Most Hated fighter of the Year?
Jon Jones

Referee of the Year?
Big Dan

Commentator of the Year?
The Voice

G that's a great call for non-Zuffa fighter of year. I'm still leaning EA though with his strength of schedule. But your boy makes a very strong case.

Female Fighter of the Year?
Jessica Eye(stole my thunder GDP)

Non-Zuffa Fighter of the Year?
Eddie Alvarez

Upset of the Year?
Jessica Eye/Jamie Varner

KO of the Year?
Barboza kick, HM to Thomas de Almedia

Comeback (fight) of the Year?
Kotetsu Boku vs. Zorobabel Moreira

to be continued...

Fighter of the Year? Bendo

Female Fighter of the Year? Ronda Rousey

Non-Zuffa Fighter of the Year?Eddie Alvarez

Fight of the Year? Zombie vs. Poirier

Upset of the Year? Jamie Varner vs. Edson Barboza

Card of the Year? UFC 142

KO of the Year? Edson Barboza's kick from 142

Sub of the Year? Maia's gory sub from 153

Round of the Year? Pearson vs. Soto R1

Comeback (fight) of the Year? Barbarian vs. Okami

Comeback (career) of the Year? Jamie Varner

Camp of the Year? Not sure

Promotion of the Year? Bellator

Breakout of the Year? Ronda Rousey

Bust of the Year? Edson Barboza

Need to Retire of the Year? Wanderlai Silva, Shogun Rua, B.J Penn

Ring Card Girl of the Year? Whoever has natural boobs

Story of the Year? Nick Newell

Most Popular fighter of the Year? Anderson Silva

Most Hated fighter of the Year? Jon Jones

Referee of the Year? Kim Winslow

Commentator of the Year? Jon Anik

Yo Ali, Zuffa owns SF. So Rousey is not eligible to win that. Think of the 1 Bellator fight you saw and choose the winner.

Go ahead and say Michael Page.

OU wrote:

Yo Ali, Zuffa owns SF. So Rousey is not eligible to win that. Think of the 1 Bellator fight you saw and choose the winner.

Go ahead and say Michael Page.

Paul Daley

Ali wrote:

OU wrote:

Yo Ali, Zuffa owns SF. So Rousey is not eligible to win that. Think of the 1 Bellator fight you saw and choose the winner.

Go ahead and say Michael Page.

Paul Daley

He won 1(was 1-1 in 2012) fight in 2012. If you want to be a homer, roll with Michael Page.

Atleast your boy Michael Page is 4-0 with 4 finishes in 2012. Daley is 1-1 this year.

Kim Winslow Ali? That bitch almost got someone killed!

OU wrote:

Kim Winslow Ali? That bitch almost got someone killed!

She's the Mills Lane of MMA.

Comeback (career) of the Year?
Cung Le

Breakout of the Year?
Chris Weidman

Bust of the Year?
Rampage- went from title shot(last fight) to being dominated by Bader in Japan.

NP Poster of the year- bigbeastcardinal12

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

NP Poster of the year- bigbeastcardinal12

+1

I don't care that Eye has 2 more wins then Rhonda, that is Rousey's award and it is not debatable.

I'll give Rhonda a vote for Sub of the year too. Vs Tate. Signature move breaks the arm for the title? It has all the ingrediants.

I disagree with both. Why is it not debatable? Ronda was a massive favorite to beat Tate where Eye was a huge underdog vs Gurgel. Not only was her year better but her sub was better. She put Gurgel to sleep with a standing arm triangle! I was far more impressed by that sub then I was by Ronda's armbar. Not taking away from Ronda but what Eye did was amazing and the shock factor is just added bonus points IMO.
If you want to vote Ronda that's fine, you have good reason to. But you are underselling what Eye did just because it wasn't on as big of a stage. She was a big underdog and it was damn impressive.

GDPofDRC wrote:

KO of the Year?
Rustam Khabilov vs. Vinc Pichel

"My job is to throw him , how he lands is his business" -Rustam Khabilov

I'll be honest, I forgot how epicly brutal Nate the Greats KO of Twood was. KO'd him with a nasty elbow standing then KO'd him again even worse with a illegal uppercut or two. Worth the mention in here.

Illegal uppercut ?

You can't KO a guy that hard and have it be legal. pretty sure.