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Fighters Only has announced the nominees for the 2019 World MMA Awards.
In addition to the fighters who are up for accolades, four-time winner MMA Fighting was nominated for “Media Source of the Year”, while Chuck Mindenhall was nominated for “Journalist of the Year.”
The MMA Hour was nominated as well for “Best MMA Programming.”
Voting began with the announcement of the nominations Wednesday and you can make your voice heard below.
The 11th Annual World MMA Awards will be held during this summer in Las Vegas.
The 2019 World MMA Awards nominees are below.
Fighter of the Year
Female Fighter of the Year
Ilima-Lei Macfarlane
Breakthrough Fighter of the Year
A.J. McKee
International Fighter of the Year
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Israel Adesanya
Gegard Mousasi
Aung La Nsang
Fight of the Year
Robert Whittaker vs. Yoel Romero 2 - UFC 225
Thiago Santos vs. Jimi Manuwa - UFC 231
Douglas Lima vs. Rory Macdonald - Bellator 192
Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje - UFC on FOX 29
Tony Ferguson vs. Anthony Pettis - UFC 229
Knockout of the Year
Jair Rodriguez vs. Chan Sung Jung - UFC Fight Night 139
Cris Cyborg vs. Amanda Nunes - UFC 232
Mandel Nallo vs. Carrington Banks - Bellator 207
Vitor Belfort vs. Lyoto Machida - UFC 224
Brian Ortega vs. Frankie Edgar - UFC 222
Submission of the Year
Tyson Pedro vs. Saparbek Safarov - UFC 221
Donald Cerrone vs. Mike Perry - UFC Fight Night 139
Zabit Magomedsharipov vs. Brandon Davis - UFC 228
Aljamain Sterling vs. Cody Stamann - UFC 228
Ryan Hall vs. B.J. Penn - UFC 232
Comeback of the Year
Claudio Silva vs. Nordine Taleb - UFC Fight Night 130
Tony Ferguson - Injury
Paul Craig vs. Magomed Ankalaev - UFC Fight Night 127
Derrick Lewis vs. Alexander Volkov - UFC 229
Upset of the Year
Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Gokhan Saki - UFC 226
Alexander Hernandez vs. Beneil Dariush - UFC 222
Ray Cooper vs. Jake Shields - PFL
Amanda Nunes vs. Cris Cyborg - UFC 232
Henry Cejudo vs. Demetrious Johnson - UFC 227
Coach of the Year
Trevor Wittman
Trainer of the Year
Michelle Ingels
Sam Calavitta
Nick Curson
Phil Daru
Gym of the Year
Factory X
City Kickboxing
MMA Lab
ATT
AKA
Referee of the Year
Josh Rosenthal
Dan Miragliotta
Mike Beltran
Herb Dean
Marc Goddard
Ringcard Girl of the Year
Carly Baker
Jhenny Andrade
Summer Daniels
Mercedes Terrell
Leading Man
Jeff Novitzky
Martin Lewandowski
Chatri Sityodtong
Best Promotion
Rizin
KSW
ONE Championship
Bellator
UFC
Personality of the Year
Analyst of the Year
Robin Black
Daniel Cormier
Best MMA Programming
The MMA Hour
JRE MMA Show
UFC Embedded
Dana White’s Contender Series
Anatomy of a Fighter
MMA Media Source of the Year
Sherdog
MMA Fighting
MMA Junkie
Bloody Elbow
FloCombat
MMA Journalist of the Year
Chuck Mindenhall
John Morgan
Brett Okamoto
Ariel Helwani
Karim Zidan
MMA Clothing & Equipment Brand of the Year
RVCA
Reebok
Hayabusa
Badboy
Venum
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