4th Annual Them's Fightin' Words Awards: Event of the Year

[Elsalvajeloco]

The nominees...

UFC FIGHT NIGHT 81: DILLASHAW  vs. CRUZ (TD Garden, Boston, MA, January 17, 2016)
Key Bouts:
T.J. DILLASHAW VS. DOMINICK CRUZ 
EDDIE ALVAREZ VS. ANTHONY PETTIS
TRAVIS BROWNE VS. MATT MITRIONE
FRANCISCO TRINALDO VS. ROSS PEARSON
PATRICK CÔTÉ VS. BEN SAUNDERS
ED HERMAN VS. TIM BOETSCH
PAUL FELDER VS. DARON CRUICKSHANK
ILIR LATIFI VS. SEAN O'CONNELL

UFC 198: WERDUM vs. MIOČIĆ (Arena da Baixada,  Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, May 14, 2016)
Key Bouts:
FABRÍCIO WERDUM VS. STIPE MIOČIĆ
RONALDO SOUZA VS. VITOR BELFORT
CRISTIANE JUSTINO VS. LESLIE SMITH
MAURÍCIO RUA VS. COREY ANDERSON
DEMIAN MAIA VS. MATT BROWN
THIAGO SANTOS VS. NATE MARQUARDT
FRANCISCO TRINALDO VS. YANCY MEDEIROS
ANTÔNIO ROGÉRIO NOGUEIRA VS. PATRICK CUMMINS

UFC 199: ROCKHOLD VS. BISPING II (The Forum, Inglewood, CA, June 4, 2016)
Key Bouts:
LUKE ROCKHOLD VS. MICHAEL BISPING
DOMINICK CRUZ VS. URIJAH FABER
DUSTIN POIRIER VS. BOBBY GREEN
DAN HENDERSON VS. HECTOR LOMBARD
BRIAN ORTEGA VS. CLAY GUIDA
BENEIL DARIUSH VS. JAMES VICK
JESSICA PENNE VS. JÉSSICA ANDRADE
POLO REYES VS. DONG HYUN KIM

UFC 202: DIAZ VS. MCGREGOR II (T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV, August 20, 2016)
Key Bouts:
NATE DIAZ VS. CONOR MCGREGOR
ANTHONY JOHNSON VS. GLOVER TEIXEIRA
DONALD CERRONE VS. RICK STORY
HYUN GYU LIM VS. MIKE PERRY
TIM MEANS VS. SABAH HOMASI
CODY GARBRANDT VS. TAKEYA MIZUGAKI
RANDA MARKOS VS. CORTNEY CASEY
NEIL MAGNY VS. LORENZ LARKIN

UFC 205: ALVAREZ VS. MCGREGOR (Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, November 12, 2016)
Key Bouts:
EDDIE ALVAREZ VS. CONOR MCGREGOR
TYRON WOODLEY VS. STEPHEN THOMPSON
JOANNA JĘDRZEJCZYK VS. KAROLINA KOWALKIEWICZ
CHRIS WEIDMAN VS. YOEL ROMERO
FRANKIE EDGAR VS. JEREMY STEPHENS
KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV VS. MICHAEL JOHNSON
RAFAEL NATAL VS. TIM BOETSCH 
VICENTE LUQUE VS. BELAL MUHAMMAD

UFC 206: HOLLOWAY VS. PETTIS (Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 10, 2016)
Key Bouts:
MAX HOLLOWAY VS. ANTHONY PETTIS
DONALD CERRONE VS. MATT BROWN
CUB SWANSON VS. DO HOO CHOI
TIM KENNEDY VS. KEVIN GASTELUM
JORDAN MEIN VS. EMIL WEBER MEEK
NIKITA KRYLOV VS. MISHA CIRKUNOV
OLIVIER AUBIN-MERCIER VS. DREW DOBER
JOHN MAKDESSI VS. LANDON VANNATA

2013 Winner: UFC ON FOX 7: HENDERSON vs. MELENDEZ
2014 Winner: UFC 181: HENDRICKS VS. LAWLER II
2015 Winner: UFC 189: MENDES VS. MCGREGOR

Award voting will close 1/19 at 9:30 a.m. CST.

[twiztor]

for me it is UFC 199, and it's not even close. this was, top-to-bottom, potentially the greatest UFC card of all time. 

for a card that looked quite lackluster, it delivered in spades. Topping it off with Michael Bisping KO'ing Luke Rockhold to win the MiddleWeight Title, in a fight that nobody gave him a chance in, is just icing on the cake. There wasn't a single bad fight all night (from what i can remember) and i was loving every minute of it.

[The Natural]

12 hours ago, twiztor said:

for me it is UFC 199, and it's not even close. this was, top-to-bottom, potentially the greatest UFC card of all time. 

for a card that looked quite lackluster, it delivered in spades. Topping it off with Michael Bisping KO'ing Luke Rockhold to win the MiddleWeight Title, in a fight that nobody gave him a chance in, is just icing on the cake. There wasn't a single bad fight all night (from what i can remember) and i was loving every minute of it.

I also went for UFC 199 as Michael Bisping KTFO Luke Rockhold becoming the new UFC Middleweight Champion, the rubber fight between Cruz vs. Faber and Hendo's KO to Lombard. I briefly considered UFC 202, 205 as it was the major show UFC 200 wasn't and UFC 206.

[Elsalvajeloco]

UFC 199: ROCKHOLD VS. BISPING II is your 4th Annual Them's Fightin' Words Awards: Event of the Year.