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Battle royale to appease the godsI assume, as is Japanese tradition, this will be a battle of teenage schoolgirls TO THE DEATH?
Battle royale to appease the godsI assume, as is Japanese tradition, this will be a battle of teenage schoolgirls TO THE DEATH?
Montana DLR vs Mayra Bueno Silva in the works for Feb 27: https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/12...no-silva-in-the-works-for-ufc-event-on-feb-27
You'd think Whitmire vs Cifers would be a loser leaves the roster type of fight, but then I don't know why Hannah is on such a good contract - $25k show being her last published purse, with some saying she's now on $33k despite the losses. So she's not cheap, especially when you factor in her opponents picking up performance bonuses.
Why? Is Ali her behind the scenes management consultant, does Dana just love her organic sausages? I'm just hoping they're keeping her around for Super Atomweight.
She has done a lot of favors for the matchmakers stepping in on last minute in the middle of the panedemic. Being a company woman has it rewards.
Fight of the year for me is JJ/Zhang. Will give some thought to the rest.
I assume you are asking only for WMMA?
Well this is fun, think I'll put in two lists, first off the UFC
KO of the year, Cachoeira saving her career by koing Dobson
Submission of the year, GDR putting the Venezuelan Vixen to sleep!
Breakout fighter, Ribas ☆
Prospect to watch in 2021, Murata ☆
Fight of the year, Weili v Joanna ☆
Fighter of the year, Mackenzie Dern, 3 x Ws including 2 bonuses and the first kneebar finish. ☆
The non-UFC list
KO of the year, Geltmacher koing my fave caber tosser Caitlin Sammons ☆
Submission of the year, the Demopoulos comeback against Sam Hughes ☆
Breakout fighter, Manon Fiorot
Prospect to watch in 2021, Juliana Miller
Fight of the year, Stoliarenko v Verzosa
Fighter of the year, Juliana Velasquez
Don't know much about the Asians, sorry.
Edit: In case these get totalled up and as it's unfair to have two votes, this side of the briny anyway, I've put a ☆ by my final choice.
KO of the Year: Bianca Antman's headkick against Veera Nykanen at Brave 37
Submission of the Year: Vanessa Demopoulos putting Sam Hughes to sleep with an inverted triangle after getting dominated for most of their title fight at LFA 85
Breakout Fighter: Amanda Ribas
Prospect to Watch in 2021: Lupita Godinez
Fight of the Year: Zhang vs. JJ
Fighter of the Year: Mackenzie Dern
KO of the year: Antman vs Nykanen
reasoning:
i) it was a headkick that KTFO'd her opponent (always most important in this category)
ii) she was losing the fight and it was a last-round comeback KO
iii) it's not in a major org so makes me look like a know-it-all hipster... well it would have if @Larisa. hadn't just mentioned it (and my next few picks)
iv) all must kneel before the ANTMAN!!!!
Sub of the year: Demopolous/Hughes
I feel there is a dichotomy between skillz (eg a flyweight boxer piecing up their opponent with slick movement to a TKO) and 'holy shit bro' factor (eg two fatty HW behemoths swanging at each other till one of their heads pops off) when making these kinds of choices.
I was going to go with Lipski/Carolina for the 'holy shit bro' factor despite the mega-derp level of the whole sequence, but then @Askafan mentioned Demopolous/Hughes which ticks both the skillz and 'holy shit' boxes so is the clear winner to me.
BreakOut Fighter... Amanda Ribas
- I just want to force you to do a video segment singing her praises and hyping her future. That'stwothree votes now, you know it's coming.(but it was gonna be my pick before seeing anyone else's anyway)
Prospect to Watch in 2021: Erin BlanchField
Fight of the Year: Moroz vs Silva ( because I have to be different )
Fighter of the year: Carla Esparza (...what?)
Singlet Award: Murata Canopener
KO of the year: geltmacher over caitlin (I'm not sure I seen any other KOs this year that are memorable)
Submission of the year: Lipski that's a once in a lifetime sub.
Breakout fighter: yan xiaonan (alot of people are saying Ribas who really didn't do much (PVZ and Markos), but yan graduated from prospect to contender knocking off veterans like KK and Claudia.
Prospect to watch in 2021: Murata
Fight of the year obviously: Zhang vs jj
Fighter of the year: Tecia Torres, she looked like she was on the decline but 2020 she dominated 2 prospects and shows she's still at the top, no one really stands out val got some defenses, Ribas got some wins, Dern has 3 wins, Robertson can hit 3 wins with her next fight.
erin blanchfield vs. victoria leonardo is the answer to at least one of these
KOTY - Andrade over Chookagian, Kielholtz over Jackson, or Blanchfield over Leonardo.
SOTY - Dern over Cifers or Lipski over Carolina.
Breakout fighter- Denice Zamboanga or Cory McKenna
Prospect - Bella Mir, Kana Wantanabe, or Claressa Shields
FOTY - Weill/Joanna is the only option
FOTY - I think it may be Lauren Murphy?
Thanks for all the ideas. Anyone else have anything?KO of the year: Geltmacher over Caitlin
Submission of the year: Lipski because she had not shown much prior. Dern is supposed to be the ground wizard to end all grappling to hear her team talk but it does not show.
Breakout fighter: Yan Xiaonan
Prospect to watch in 2021: Bella Mir although I expect I am giving her extra regard based on her father and might be expecting too much.
Fight of the year: Zhang vs JJ
Fighter of the year: Dunno. Nobody really stands out. Some people are talking about Dern but her standup and takedowns are still terrible and she continues to look down when throwing an overhand right. So just because I am a crotchety old bastard I will say Ribas just to irritate Leto.
Doesn't help that they block any comments that disagree with them, so it looks like there is no disagreement with their opinions. The second one you mentioned, his review of Hamasaki vs Ham last NYE, he deleted every comment that pointed out he didn't know/understand Rizin's scoring system.Not every YouTuber is a biased "know it all", but Clown Shoes and his fellow Addict narrator speak out of their narcissistic asses quite often, unfortunately they have followers who agree with them and spread those ideas around online.
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Thanks for all the ideas. Anyone else have anything?
Thanks for all the ideas. Anyone else have anything?
WMMA poster of the year: PurpleStorm. Genuinely good guy.
WMMA poster of the year: PurpleStorm. Genuinely good guy.