Bloody Elbow 2020 Year-End Awards - Results

Check out the results from all seven of the Bloody Elbow 2020 Year-End Awards.

Like we do every year, Bloody Elbow put the best of 2020 up for a vote. Seven categories were available to chime in on, and our readers did exactly that - to the tune of a whole bunch of votes. I’d like to thank you for your responses, and here’s how it all broke down. Including our first-ever tie!

You can click on each individual category for the full breakdown, but I’ll just show the top three vote-getters here.

The number beside each nominee is the number of votes received, and the % is the % of total votes.

Best Submission

1. AJ McJee neck cranks Darrion Caldwell - 251 (26%)
2. Khabib stops Justin Gaethje - 202 (21%)
3. Ariane Lipski kneebars Luana Carolina - 136 (14%)

Biggest Upset

1. Roxy Modafferi over Maycee Barber - 506 (68%)
2. Shana Dobson over Mariya Agapova - 139 (19%)
3. Khaos Williams over Alex Morono - 46 (6%)

Newcomer of the Year

1. Khamzat Chimaev - 1045 (80%)
2. Brandon Royval - 90 (7%)
3. Joaquin Buckley - 77 (6%)

Best Event

1. UFC 254 - 315 (61%)
2. UFC 256 - 107 (21%)
3. UFC 250 - 56 (11%)

Best Fighter

1. Deiveson Figueiredo - 337 (30%)
2. Kevin Holland - 271 (24%)
3. Israel Adesanya - 189 (17%)

Best Knockout

1. Joaquin Buckley on Inga Kasanganay - 460 (48%)
2. Kevin Holland on Jacare Souza - 152 (16%)
3. Mamed Khalidov on Scott Askham - 131 (14%)

Best Fight

1. Weili Zhang vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk - 486 (67%)
2. Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno - 87 (12%)
3. Justin Gaethje vs. Tony Ferguson - 77 (11%)