Cammo's 2008 MMA Awards

[Cammo101]

Best Fighter

Anderson Silva
Rashad Evans
Thiago Alves
Miguel Torres
Georges St. Pierre

Winner: Anderson Silva


Best Fight

Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Cung Le vs. Frank Shamrock
Eddie Alvarez vs. Joachim Hansen
Quentin Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin
Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Winner: Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda


Best Knockout

Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell
Gegard Mousasi upkicks Souza
Josh Koscheck KO’s Yoshida
Anthony Johnson head kicks Burns
Wanderlei Silva mauls Jardine

Winner: Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell


Best Submission

Dustin Hazelett’s armbar on McCrory
Shinya Aoki’s gogoplata on Nagata
Frank Mir’s kneebar on Lesnar
Nate Diaz’s double bird triangle on Pellagrino
Demian Maia’s triangle on Ed Herman

Winner: Dustin Hazelett’s armbar on McCrory


Biggest Upset

Mike Brown over Urijah Faber
Seth Petruzelli over Kimbo Slice
Junior dos Santos over Fabricio Werdum
Frank Mir handles Nogueira
Sergey Golyaev over Takanori Gomi

Winner: Junior dos Santos over Fabricio Werdum


Comeback Fighter

Frank Mir
Pat Miletich
Anthony Johnson

Winner: Frank Mir


Breakthrough Fighter

Mike Brown
Brock Lesnar
Kenny Florian
Thiago Alves
Gegard Mousasi

Winner: Thiago Alves


Biggest Story

The demise of EliteXC
Kimbo KO’ed
Brock Lesnar’s Meteoric Rise
MMA goes primetime
Gina Carano makes women’s MMA popular

Winner: MMA goes primetime


Best Camp

Xtreme Couture
Arizona Combat Sports
American Top Team
Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting
Team Nogueira

Winner: Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting



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[cowboyronnie]

I like how you nominated fighters for your consideration.

[Cammo101]

I like how you nominated fighters for your consideration.

Makes it more fun than just picking the winners. Most people know the winners off the top of their heads.

[2009NBAChamps]

Best Fighter

Anderson Silva
Rashad Evans
Thiago Alves
Miguel Torres
Georges St. Pierre

Winner: GSP


Best Fight

Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Cung Le vs. Frank Shamrock
Eddie Alvarez vs. Joachim Hansen
Quentin Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin
Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Winner: Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda


Best Knockout

Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell
Gegard Mousasi upkicks Souza
Josh Koscheck KO’s Yoshida
Anthony Johnson head kicks Burns
Wanderlei Silva mauls Jardine

Winner: Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell Anthony Johnson's was a close 2nd


Best Submission

Dustin Hazelett’s armbar on McCrory
Shinya Aoki’s gogoplata on Nagata
Frank Mir’s kneebar on Lesnar
Nate Diaz’s double bird triangle on Pellagrino
Demian Maia’s triangle on Ed Herman

Winner: Frank Mir’s kneebar on Lesnar


Biggest Upset

Mike Brown over Urijah Faber
Seth Petruzelli over Kimbo Slice
Junior dos Santos over Fabricio Werdum
Frank Mir handles Nogueira
Sergey Golyaev over Takanori Gomi

Winner: Mike Brown over Urijah Faber


Comeback Fighter

Frank Mir
Pat Miletich
Anthony Johnson

Winner: Frank Mir


Breakthrough Fighter

Mike Brown
Brock Lesnar
Kenny Florian
Thiago Alves
Gegard Mousasi

Winner: Brock Lesnar Don't see how it can't be him.


Biggest Story

The demise of EliteXC
Kimbo KO’ed
Brock Lesnar’s Meteoric Rise
MMA goes primetime
Gina Carano makes women’s MMA popular

Winner: The demise of EliteXC These guys were on their way to turning the corner, except for that catastrophic last event and embarrassment that ensued.


Best Camp

Xtreme Couture
Arizona Combat Sports
American Top Team
Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting
Team Nogueira

Winner: Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting

[Cammo101]

Solid choices. If GSP had fought more than twice this year, I would likely have gone with him. He has a chance to be the 2009 front runner here in like a month.

Alves went from a nobody to the #2 fighter in his weight class this year. And he went through Koscheck, Hughes, and Karo to do it. That is more of a breakthrough than Lesnar IMO. Though it is sure hard to argue Brock.

[PJTucker]

Solid choices. If GSP had fought more than twice this year, I would likely have gone with him. He has a chance to be the 2009 front runner here in like a month.

Alves went from a nobody to the #2 fighter in his weight class this year. And he went through Koscheck, Hughes, and Karo to do it. That is more of a breakthrough than Lesnar IMO. Though it is sure hard to argue Brock.

I thought your choices were all solid, however I too would've went with GSP for fighter of the year. Not trying to be a homer, I just thought he was more dominating against a higher level of competition this year. GSP beat Serra for the belt, then dismantled the #2 WW in the world Jon Fitch with a terrible beatdown. Plus, he blew threw Matt Hughes on Dec 29.

In comparison, Andy was also impressive beating Dan Henderson (ranked #2 by many at the time). I don't give him as much credit for beating Irvin (not a top tier fighter regardless of weight) and his fight against Cote was uninspiring.

Not saying GSP is the better fighter, just more deserving of the Fighter of the Year.

Also, I loved Ishida's armbar at Strikeforce. Tough choice though as Hazlett's sub was awesome too.

[El Hardee]

What a rip, this is a bite off my thread I started a few months ago.....Booooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

[El Hardee]

I'll cut you some slack for having my gym in the top camps for 08. War AZCS!

[Cammo101]

I responded to your thread, but for whatever reason it didn't catch on. Consider this a 2nd chance.

Arizona Combat Sports had a great year. If there was an award for Breakthrough Camp I would give it to them. A lot of good young fighters out there.

[El Hardee]

Carlos Condit just moved to Az to train with us and Thales Leites who visits alot is going to train full time with us for his fight with Anderson Silva. Also if you look at an old thread I started long ago I told you guys about Bader before the TUF season started. Now be on the look out for Steve Steinbeiss he got his first UFC fight coming up in Feb, he has some of the nastiest kicks you'll ever see.

Best Fighter: Torres
Best fight: Torres/Maeda
Best Sub: Hazletts shoulder lock
Upset: Mike Brown/Faber
Comeback: Mir (landslide)
Breakthrough: Lesnar (another landslide)
Biggest Story: The fall of Kimbo, I mean EliteXC.
Best camp: My heart screams AZCS but I give it a tie, ATT had a good year as well.

[SpReEfOrAlL]

Best Fighter

Anderson Silva
Rashad Evans
Thiago Alves
Miguel Torres
Georges St. Pierre

Winner: Anderson Silva


Best Fight

Miguel Torres vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Cung Le vs. Frank Shamrock
Eddie Alvarez vs. Joachim Hansen
Quentin Jackson vs. Forrest Griffin
Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Winner: Cung Le vs. Frank Shamrock


Best Knockout

Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell
Gegard Mousasi upkicks Souza
Josh Koscheck KO’s Yoshida
Anthony Johnson head kicks Burns
Wanderlei Silva mauls Jardine

Winner: Rashad Evans KO’s Liddell


Best Submission

Dustin Hazelett’s armbar on McCrory
Shinya Aoki’s gogoplata on Nagata
Frank Mir’s kneebar on Lesnar
Nate Diaz’s double bird triangle on Pellagrino
Demian Maia’s triangle on Ed Herman

Winner: Dustin Hazelett’s armbar on Josh Burkman Why isnt this in there?

Biggest Upset

Mike Brown over Urijah Faber
Seth Petruzelli over Kimbo Slice
Junior dos Santos over Fabricio Werdum
Frank Mir handles Nogueira
Sergey Golyaev over Takanori Gomi

Winner: Frank Mir handles Nogueira

Comeback Fighter

Frank Mir
Pat Miletich
Anthony Johnson

Winner: Frank Mir


Breakthrough Fighter

Mike Brown
Brock Lesnar
Kenny Florian
Thiago Alves
Gegard Mousasi

Winner: Brock Lesnar I would put Kenny 2nd and Alves 3rd.


Biggest Story

The demise of EliteXC
Kimbo KO’ed
Brock Lesnar’s Meteoric Rise
MMA goes primetime
Gina Carano makes women’s MMA popular

Winner: The demise of EliteXC


Best Camp

Xtreme Couture
Arizona Combat Sports
American Top Team
Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting
Team Nogueira

Winner: Team Nogueira This is Black House right? If so, Anderson, Lyoto, Big Nog, even Junior dos Santos. . . hard to argue with their years.



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