2005 MMAFighting.com award winners

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Votes has been tallied for our 2005 awards.

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Heavyweight Fighter of the Year:

2005: Emelianenko Fedor

2004: Emelianenko Fedor

2003: Emelianenko Fedor

2002: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Light Heavyweight Fighter of the Year

2005: Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

2004: Wanderlei Silva

2003: Randy Couture

2002: Chuck Liddell

Middleweight Fighter of the Year

2005: Rich Franklin

2004: Ryo Chonan

2003: Matt Lindland

2002: Murilo Bustamante

Welterweight Fighter of the Year

2005: Georges St. Pierre

2004: BJ Penn

2003: Matt Hughes

2002: Matt Hughes

Lightweight Fighter of the Year

2005: Takanori Gomi

2004: Takanori Gomi

2003: BJ Penn

2002: Jens Pulver

Featherweight Fighter of the Year

2005: Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto

Fight of the Year

2005: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Mirko Cro Cop

2004: Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva II

2003: Mirko Cro Cop vs. Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira

2002: Bob Sapp vs. Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira

Breakout Fighter of the Year

2005: Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

2004: Georges St-Pierre

2003: Karo Parisyan

2002: Bob Sapp

Knockout of the Year

2005: Takanori Gomi vs. Luiz Azeredo

2004: Yves Edwards vs. Josh Thompson

Submission of the Year

2005: Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg

2004: Ryo Chonan vs. Anderson Silva

Best Promotion of the Year

2005: PRIDE Fighting Championships

2004: PRIDE Fighting Championships

2003: PRIDE Fighting Championships

Best Promotion of the Year Not Named PRIDE FC or UFC

2005: Cage Rage

Best Event of the Year

2005: PRIDE Bushido 9: The Tournament

2004: PRIDE Critical Countdown 2004

2003: PRIDE Final Conflict 2003

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all very good choices

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No arguments here.

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read it again.

but...
LOL at Cage Rage having a better 2005 than the WEC.

kinda close actually...Cage Rage has more Pride and Ufc Vets if you look at it that way.

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Fedor/CroCop was not FOTY. It was the biggest and most anticipated fight of the year, but there were fights with much better action and excitement.

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I agree with Tomato Can

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imo...i thought NOG VS SHOGUN was F.O.T.Y

ive watched that fight numerous times...great back and forht action, with technique involved aswell

great war!!

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The lack of finish didn't hurt it as much as the fact that it was pretty non-competitive after the 1st round. CroCop had very little offense from there on out.

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the next two were close

WINNER: Fedor vs. Cro Cop 33.98% (35 votes)

RUNNER-UP: Stephen Bonnar vs. Forrest Griffin 29.13% (30 votes)

Rogerio Nogueira vs. Shogun 22.33% (23 votes)

i would have been fine with any of the three

fedor vs cro cop had the best story

bonnar vs griffin was the most entertaining

nog vs shogun was the best technically

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Fedor is the answer for every category including the ones for best events until he loses.

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ttt

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I agree with all except Pride having a better promotion than the UFC in 2005.

The UFC had 4 great PPV's in 51, 52, 54, & 56.

They also had 4 very good "Free" Spike shows in TUF 1-2 & UFN 1-2.

The UFC did have 2 bad shows in 53 & 55 but that shouldn't discredit the other shows.

The best part of Pride this past year was the CroCop/Fedor fight and the LW Grand Prix. Yes, there were some big names in the other GP's but they were all turned out to be subpar events overall.

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Nice--that's great.

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I actually think I agree with Shotcaller above as well. UFC shows were great, and I think they had more impact news wise.

Cindy--are these fan voted on?

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I agree with Macedawgg agreeing with me.