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2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:59 pm
by Cammo101
Previous winners:
2014 - Kelvin Gastelum/Will Brooks (tie)
2013 - Khabib Nurmagomedov
2012 - Renan Barao
2011 - Jake Ellenberger
2010 - Anthony Pettis
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 2:01 am
by cowboyronnie
Who voted for Northcutt, show yourself
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 5:45 am
by Cammo101
cowboyronnie wrote:Who voted for Northcutt, show yourself
Wasn't I, though I can see the argument. He's gone from regional no name to can't miss TV in a single year. No easy task.
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:04 pm
by REDDzone
Max Holloway should be on this list imo. His trajectory is almost the same as Tony Ferguson in that his 2014 was good as well but then he was beating meh fighters whereas now he has moved on to beating ranked fighters and is a true contender.
Holloway's 2015:
1) Beat Cole Miller
2) Destroyed Cub Swanson on Fox
3) Beat Charles Oliveira in a weird fight
4) Beat Jeremy Stephens
(His 2014: Akira, Collard, Fili, Chope)
Compare to Tony's 2015:
1) Beat Tibau
2) Beat Thomson
3) Beat Barboza in a foty candidate
(His 2014: Kikuno, Castillo, Trujillo)
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:32 pm
by lilfishi22
I voted for Sage but I think I took him as more of a bigger news story than a breakthrough fighter...
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:10 am
by NZB2323
How is this not Connor McGregor?
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:47 am
by Jasen777
The interpretation here is more of someone going from obscure to contender than someone going from contender to top of the game.
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:09 am
by lilfishi22
Sage isn't a contender but few people grew from a kid in a a (admittedly one of the larger) regional shows to making 40/40 on a UFN main card and getting a ridiculous amount of media attention in as little as 3 months.
Re: 2015 MMA Breakthrough Fighter of the Year (Poll)
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:27 pm
by REDDzone
It just depends how you define it. Is it relevancy in terms of ufc marketing machine and Sage's bank account? Or is it relevancy in terms of beating good fighters? Sage has the former.