Bloody Elbow 2019 Half-Year Awards – Best Knockout

Make your pick for the best knockout of the first half of 2019 in Bloody Elbow’s Half-Year Awards.

Over the next few days, Bloody Elbow is going to ask for your opinion on some of the best things that have happened in the MMA world over the first half of 2019. With these being half-year awards, there will be an abbreviated number of categories – five to be exact.

For the sake of simplicity we’re going to stick with high-level and relevant MMA stuff in these posts. While I’m sure there was a ludicrous knockout in an unscheduled MMA event at The Lumberyard strip club in Des Moines, or an insane pancreas lock submission on an obscure ZST! card in Japan, let’s just stick to stuff a lot of us have seen, okay? (If that spiel looked familiar, it’s because I’ve used the same one for nine years in a row. Originality? What originality?)

It’s pretty simple. I’ll post 5 options in a category, you vote for what you think was the best. If you think I left something really important off my list, post it in the comments and we can add it to the poll if it’s deemed worthy. I can almost guarantee you won’t like all my suggestions, but narrowing down these lists is tough.

Our second category will be best knockout. The first half of the year saw insane KOs, a couple that will be fixtures on best-of lists for years to come. Narrowing this down was ridiculously tough. So I didn’t. Here’s 9!

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Anthony Pettis knocks Stephen Thompson clean out, UFC Nashville

Jorge Masvidal ends Darren Till, UFC London

Jorge Masvidal stops Ben Askren in 5 seconds, UFC 239

Johnny Walker stops Misha Cirkunov with a flying knee and punches, UFC 235

Valentina Shevchenko lands the perfect head kick on Jessica Eye, UFC 238

Jessica Andrade slams Rose Namajuna into oblivion, UFC 237

Aleksandar Rakic finishes Jimi Manuwa with a head kick, UFC Stockholm

Justin Gaethje smokes Edson Barboza, UFC Philadelphia

Josh Emmett with a lethal right hook on Michael Johnson, UFC Philadelphia