Bloody Elbow 2020 Year-End Awards – Results

Check out the results from all seven of the Bloody Elbow 2020 Year-End Awards. Like we do every year, Bloody Elbow put the best of 2020 up for a vote. Seven categories were available to chime in on, and our readers did exactly …



Check out the results from all seven of the Bloody Elbow 2020 Year-End Awards.

Like we do every year, Bloody Elbow put the best of 2020 up for a vote. Seven categories were available to chime in on, and our readers did exactly that – to the tune of a whole bunch of 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.

Best Submission

  1. AJ McJee neck cranks Darrion Caldwell – 251 (26%)
  2. Khabib stops Justin Gaethje – 202 (21%)
  3. Ariane Lipski kneebars Luana Carolina – 136 (14%)

Biggest Upset

  1. Roxy Modafferi over Maycee Barber – 506 (68%)
  2. Shana Dobson over Mariya Agapova – 139 (19%)
  3. Khaos Williams over Alex Morono – 46 (6%)

Newcomer of the Year

  1. Khamzat Chimaev – 1045 (80%)
  2. Brandon Royval – 90 (7%)
  3. Joaquin Buckley – 77 (6%)

Best Event

  1. UFC 254 – 315 (61%)
  2. UFC 256 – 107 (21%)
  3. UFC 250 – 56 (11%)

Best Fighter

  1. Deiveson Figueiredo – 337 (30%)
  2. Kevin Holland – 271 (24%)
  3. Israel Adesanya – 189 (17%)

Best Knockout

  1. Joaquin Buckley on Inga Kasanganay – 460 (48%)
  2. Kevin Holland on Jacare Souza – 152 (16%)
  3. Mamed Khalidov on Scott Askham – 131 (14%)

Best Fight

  1. Weili Zhang vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk – 486 (67%)
  2. Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno – 87 (12%)
  3. Justin Gaethje vs. Tony Ferguson – 77 (11%)