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Check out the results from all seven of the Bloody Elbow 2019 Year-End Awards.
Like we do every year, Bloody Elbow put the best of 2019 up for a vote. Seven categories were available to chime in on, and our readers did exactly that – to the tune of 13,000+ votes. I’d like to thank you for your responses, and here’s how it all broke down. Including our first-ever tie!
You can click on each individual category for the full breakdown, but I’ll just show the top three vote-getters here.
The number beside each nominee is the number of votes received, and the % is the % of total votes.
- Bryce Mitchell twisters Matt Sayles – 808 (45%)
- Demian Maia chokes out Ben Askren – 291 (16%)
- Misha Cirkunov Japanese neckties Jimmy Crute – 208 (12%)
- Weili Zhang dethrones Jessica Andrade – 732 (22%)
- Anthony Pettis stops Stephen Thompson – 626 (19%)
- Henry Cejudo beats T.J. Dillashaw – 376 (11%)
- Jairzinho Rozenstruik – 1199 (75%)
- Ciryl Gane – 307 (18%)
- Jake Hager – 101 (6%)
- UFC 236 and UFC 245 403 (45%)
- UFC 244 – 222 (18%)
- Jorge Masvidal – 1034 (31%)
- Patricio Freire – 983 (30%)
- Israel Adesanya – 833 (25%)
- Jorge Masvidal ends Ben Askren – 1521 (65%)
- Valentina Shevchenko head kicks Jessica Eye – 228 (10%)
- Raymond Daniels spins and wrecks Wilker Barros – 196 (8%)
- Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum – 620 (55%)
- Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington – 177 (16%)
- Yoel Romero vs. Paulo Costa – 120 (11%)