LowKick End of the Year Awards Winners

Congrates to Overeem, Daley and especialy Werdum for there awards.

1st off im happy Daley beat out Shogun 4 K.O of the year he deserved it say what you want about him but that K.o was nasty 2nd off I dont think the non US promotion was fair it dident have alot of the promotions in Canada should just make it non north American promotion

Pretty Accurate list.

overeem mma fighter of the year??? sonnen silva fight of the year??? those two were given to the wrong people.



mainly as overeem fought twice in mma in 2010 not even against top 10 opponents. whereas someone like frankie edgar beating bj, the best lightweight of all time and not only doing it once, doing it twice.



sonnen silva fight of the year? are you joking me??? it wasnt a good fight, it was a domination for 4.5 rounds. that doesnt deserve fight of the year over something like korean zombie vs lenord garcia? leben akiyama? pettis henderson?? all of those are far more deserving for fight of the year

accurate list, come on. how can reem be mma fighter of the year, sirely that has to be mma achievements not k-1. What he did in k-1 was awesome but thats not mma and his mma wins over rogers and duffee was not brilliant. how about edgar, beating penn twice, taking the belt, defending it, it then retaining it with the draw, thats pretty special considering penn's calibre and maynard was beating everyone he fought. This is the year reem has to prove himself cos there is so much hype surrounding him. Ive watched Reem since pride and he has never been the best fighter, he lost quite a few in pride but the hype train has been building but if you look at his mma opponents then it really should slow down. ill judge him when 2011 and 2012 are finished cos now he should be facing names, especially if the strikeforce tournament goes ahead.

I dont know how you can discount the k-1 stuff so easily guys. Its no small accomplishment to win a k-1 grand prix. K-1 has many simularities to MMA. yeah yeah "MMA" only..., well he maintained his MMA championship belt against some of the best outside of UFC. Overreem is a MMA champion who defended his belt againt the best they could find who also had time to dominate K-1 to. I mean 7 dominate fights (5 events) in one year... thats a tough fighter. Ive heard of no MMA fighter one ever having a year like that.



Huge BJ fan and think Edgars great deserves consideration too. but thats a good match up for edgar. Beating the same guy the same way didnt seem as impressive the second time. Guess you can call the draw against maynard as 2011 but a draw isnt exactly stamping your domination on the scene.



And cain valasquez, amazing under dog story. definitely deserving consideration, but really only one fight that really caught my attention. but the guy also messed up his shoulder. I dont know. I need to see more from cain myself. maybe next year but I dont look back and see this is the year of cain.



I just dont think it measures up

@mmalurker

i discount the k1 stuff for the simple fact that it is not the same sport!!! k1 is kickboxing, which, yes is a part of mma BUT there is no ground game. THEY ARE COMPLEATLY DIFFRENT SPORTS! it matters not how he dominated in k1 since this is an MMA AWARDS!



also he defended his belt against the best??? he fought brett rogers, who was litrally just coming off a knockout loss to fedor. that is not the best that was available. there was plenty of other fights who would have fit the case. mainly, i would have given it for fedor, and i am not the biggest fedor fan.



how would frankie not deserve it?? he dominated a fighter who was an overwelming favorite against him, not once but twice! frankie is clearly the figher who should have gotten the award.

k-1 and mma are different but not "completely* different" sports. They are both combat sports that use alot of the same technique and skills and are scored very similarly.



I explained why I think its relevant. I also explained why I didnt think edgar deserved it. Penn was certainly not a overwhelming favorite the second time they fought.



You might get to see fedor overeem soon enough

so if you have damian maia winning the bbj world championship would he go to the top of the middleweight division?? that is not compleatly diffrent from mma as bjj uses many of the moves used in mma.



no you wouldnt because it is a DIFFRENT sport and it exclused many of the other aspects of mma. i dont see how u have a k1 fighter as the best mma fighter of the year, there is no logic in that

People mix K1 with mma unfortunately. If K1 as allowed the Reem is a worthy winne. But as it's mma awards he doesn't even belong on the shotlist.



Edgar for me was also the fighter of the year and by a long way purely for dominating BJ at LW.

exactly/ overeem won due to a popularity contest, let's be honest. he's still a great fighter, but guys like aldo, edgar and velasquez achieved so much more than him in MMA this year and i believe they deserved it. Overeem's a great fighter and winning K1 was awesome, i just don't see how that makes you fighter of the year.



yeah the sonnen/silva fight was super dramatic though. if not for the triangle at the end it waouldn't deserve a mention but just that fact that sonnen backed up most of the trash talk and then silva won with a last gasp effort and showed true fighting spirit. i'd also see a case for the santiago/misaki fight as well.

I agree with overhand right but it's all good because it was voted on by Lowkick members! I didn't watch very many fights live this year due to work but out of the ones that I saw, Silva vs Sonnen was definitely fight of the year.

I wouldnt have had sonnen vs silva as FIGHT of the year, maybe as COMEBACK of the year. But I think there were way better fights out there deserving it. I mean cmon, Leben vs Akiyama, Garcia vs Zombie. like some good back and forth action that was pretty even

How this is possible?? Why Overeem is MMA fighter of the year? He fought 2 times in MMA in 2010. And why is Silva vs Sonnen fight of the year? Maybe comeback of the year, or dominance of the year.



Oh, wait. I know. Overeem and AS fans and guys that dont know shit about MMA vote must vote their favorite fighter.



I mean, they both are great fighters. I have tons of respect for both fighters, but there are guys that fought all out wars (Pettis vs Henderson, Leben vs Akiyama) and guys that achieved a lot more in 2010 as MMA fighters(Cain, GSP, Edgar.)



I know that I will get hate for this but, haters gona hate.

@Hemm0

you shouldn't get weaked because your right, I'm a fan of Overeem but can any intelligent mma fan seriously tell me he's had a better year than Cain Velasquez(my pick) or others ? of course not and the people that voted for him know this but voted for other reasons there really is no other explanation. As far as your comments about Silva v Sonnen it wasn't my pick but at the same consider this what was your FIRST thought when the match was announced ? Think about all the trash talking that Sonnen did + the way he then backed it up for 5 rounds which no one saw coming and i mean no one, sure people wanted Silva to loose but it was more in hope imo or just hate. Then consider the way Silva won it. All these things play a factor not just the fight itself.

Hes just stepping up to any challenge. I cant say he deserves it more than Fankie Edgar, but the dude is leaving his organization to find fights. Hes pretty motivated it seems and he will be the undisputed fighter of the year in 2011 after he cleans out the UFC HW division!

While Overeem has been really impressive, I don't think that merits fighter of the year. In all honesty, the victory over Brett Rogers, not only was it expected, but he gained nothing from it. I think it has yet to be completely proven, but soon we'll see that Brett Rogers was nothing more then hype. You can't cruise through MMA on your punching power alone. I think the SF tournament will cement Overeem's place in the overall heavyweight rankings.

@ HEmm0 I really dont understand why you got so many weaks. its one of the truest statements ive seen on here in a long time. its all down to fanboys

Yeah its true and Im a Reem fan. Its true he has never faced a top ten HW in a long time and beating down Brett was really nothing for his career. If he can get through the SF Tourney, You will see him in the UFC not long after.

easily top 10....future champ..record bla bla...

i'm a huge fan of overeem but he is not the MMA Fighter Of The Year

Voted on every award. Hopefully Lowkick do the awards at the end of 2011

@ mmauk



When Silva vs Sonnen was announced, I tought that: "Finally, another wrestler." I tought that it would end like Silva vs Henderson. And in a way it did. But congratz to Silva for great win.

@Hemmo

I thought the same. but when Sonnen was beating him down i was screaming Triangle at the TV for like last 3 rounds the funny thing is I was screaming the exact same thing round after round when Ben Askren won that Bellator title and he should have got subbed in the last round too.

Well, people weak me because I dont agree with them about Alistair Overeem being "the MMA fighter of the year." I mean that Overeem is great fighter, great champ but those people he KO´d to get/keep those titles: Rogers and Duffee. Can anyone say that Overeem was is trouble against either of these fighter? Can anyone say that he didnt win easily? Everybody agree that he should have fought Fedor and not Rogers. If he wins this tournament and fight in MMA after this tournament. Then he could be MMA fighter of the year 2011.

Hey man, look at his record. If he doesnt deserve it..i dunno who does.



Aldo? I mean..that was my vote but, now that i've seen the awesome logic, i can't go with quality over quantity...that would make me sad because of how unpopular i'd be as a result.

my god you fell out of the dumb tree. how does he deserve it looking at his record? its not even that impressive

If i have to fall out of a tree to explain why my thinking was over your head there, so be it.

I'm guessing Madness is talking about Fedor again haha.

Good guess. Fedor won fighter of the year after all.

just goes to show you how many people are sucking alistair overeems **** these days, the guy beat a bunch of out of shape pussies in K1, woopdee frickin doo

Omg look at the record!!!!

funny he got voted mma fighter of the year and there's so many people on here complaining about it (myself included)...but it seems like the 27% that felt he deserved the award have scuttled away with no explanation..

@ madnessstill. o.k lets look at his record shall we. lets take his last four fights before rogers. 1) Fujita. 15-9 whos well past his sell by date. 2) James Thompson, 15-14 who is one of the worst fighters to ever fight in pride 3) tony sylvester,another top name opponent.... 4) gary goodridge. 23-23. Come on man you cant say because he fought these guys that his record is impressive?? unless your joking???

Noooo no manuel nooo way i could ever be joking about that. If you look at gary goodridge for instance you'll see he's been up against the very very best this sport has to offer, and look at his record!!!



50% records don't matter! Just ask another random genius who's almost as quick as you are.

Hey man you gotta read the vibe of the room. If your opinion isn't popular in the room on the fighter you like to hype up for nothing, basically you ought to just cower away or there's a chance you might get weaked.



Then your life is OVER!! I mean, how will you eat after that?

Okay, that shit is funny.

The thing is 27% of people thought he deserved it and 73% thought he didn't. Such is democracy, most people usually vote for someone else, you expect most people to complain.



I would't have given it to the reem, I am happy a non UFC fighter is getting exposure though.

I gave my explanation and I dont think the counter arguments are that strong.



But what it does say is there are alot of good fighters out there that had good years. People just have different opinions and interpretations of it all

Exactly kcig. That's whats going on.

27% is pretty significant when there was 8-10 voting choices. cain got 22% and GSP 18%, that leave 33% for aldo, shogun, penn and the others to fight for...

the editors of this website ought to be ashamed of themselves

Come on, brett rogers was EASILY top 10 HW, and todd duffee could have been the UFC champ one day!!! And besides, look at his record!!



/Recycles that over and over again

Really just cant see why Overeem even were on the list.

no shat he isnt fightin the best in the world like anderson or GSP.

Yeah, i think Overeem is awesome but It is a bit disheartening that he was even nominated for Fighter of the Year.

Anderson wasnt on the list though.....guess he didn't fight enough

Why are there so many fools on lowkick who don't know the difference between K1 and MMA?



Weak me now bitches.

There's a difference? Next you'll tell me there's a difference between dream calibre fighters and the UFC.



RIDICULOUS!

agree with most of these except for overeem as mma fighter of the year (beat one top 10 opponent this year?) and TUF winning best tv show. i'm getting a bit sick of TUF tbh and i think Inside MMA is a great show that deserves aknowledgement for its non-biased and informative show. plus they have bas rutten and some awesome guests.

TUF seasons were both abit boring this year. It's getting old watching one guy who can't coach basically trash talk a guy he really has no chance of beating

Yeah, I've never liked TUF. It's like a soap opera for meat heads.

i just find the fights pretty lacklustre and unless they get some awesome coaches for the next one i'll likely lose interest and not bother watching. the last entertaining one i watched was rampage vs evans, mostly because of the epic trash talk back and forth between the two (mostly rampage) and all the man titties jokes that were made :D

Sure in MMA you have to take some care with striking and distance due to the threat of take-down or clinching but that does not in anyway take away from what K1 represents. K1 is the highest level of striking combat in the entire World! It was that way years ago when the UFC was near bankrupt and the only high level sports combat was based from Japan! I think not enough people are really respecting the bigger picture of sports combat in the World, its history and evolution.



Some of you guys need to give K1 more respect and what it means to be the K1 World GP Champion! Aside from The Reem, lets see if another MMA fighter can step up, cross-train, and win that championship! The Reem did something very special in combat sports that no other MMA based fighter has ever been able to do and he needs to be recognized for it.

It's not MMA though.

its part of it and its also covered by this website

If the award was for Fighter of the Year, I would agree but it is for MMA Fighter of the Year. That said, he did accomplish something amazing.

so manny pacquaio should get mma fighter of the year then i guess? because he's a great boxer and hey, boxing is a big part of mma after all. guess it doesn't matter that he didn't fight mma, it's not like it's a different sport or anything..

if pacquaio held and defended MMA featherweight belt while continuing to dominate boxing id certainly be impressed.



I think its sad you guys are discounting overeems other fighting accomplishments.



I mean sure theres a line. If found out Aldo was a champion dart thrower I might not regard that with much signifigance. But K-1's had a continuous relationship with mma for the past decade with sharing fighters and gyms training both. its like a brother sport. its like a F1 race car driver winning nascar races to. it does speak to the skill of the driver/fighter. and being able to compete in both at the same time is a further testament to the individuals status in the respective sports.



Its an accomplishment for an mma fighter to win k-1 fights I dont see whats so hard to get about that.

This is MMA fighter of the year, not Fighter Whos Won in the Most Organizations of the year.

overeem shouldn't get fighter of the year it should be Cain Overeem is in a slowly dying brand that does not even pull the same numbers as the UFC, Cain took down Big Nog and Lesnar Last year, its either him or Jose Aldo