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Nominees for Fighters Only World MMA Awards 2009

Read the full list of 2009 nominees.

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 FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

•    Georges St. Pierre

•    Lyoto Machida

•    Anderson Silva

•    Mike Brown

•    Brock Lesnar


FIGHT OF THE YEAR

•    Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber at WEC 41

•    Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale

•    Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva at UFC 99

•    Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir at UFC 100

•    Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Randy Couture at UFC 102


KO OF THE YEAR

•    Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Liddell at UFC 88

•    Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping at UFC 100

•    Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans at UFC 98

•    Nate Marquart vs. Demian Maia at UFC 102

•    Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin at UFC 101


SUBMISSION OF THE YEAR

•    B.J. Penn vs. Kenny Florian at UFC 101

•    Terry Etim vs. Justin Buchholz at UFC 99

•    Dustin Hazelett vs. Tamdan McCrory at UFC 91

•    Toby Imada vs. Jorge Masvidal at Bellator 5

•    Demian Maia vs. Chael Sonnen at UFC 95


BEST PROMOTION

•    UFC

•    Strikeforce

•    DREAM

•    WEC

•    Bellator


LEADING MAN OF THE YEAR

•    Dana White, UFC president

•    Lorenzo Fertitta, UFC CEO

•    Scott Coker, Strikeforce founder and CEO

•    Charles "Mask" Lewis, TapouT co-founder

•    Joe Silva, UFC VP of Talent Relations


EUROPEAN FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

•    Mike Bisping

•    Fedor Emelianenko

•    Terry Etim

•    Dan Hardy

•    Gegard Mousasi


BREAKTHROUGH FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

•    Shane Carwin

•    Dan Hardy

•    Jon Jones

•    Brock Lesnar

•    Cain Velasquez


FEMALE FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

•    Gina Carano

•    Megumi Fujii

•    Sarah Kaufman

•    Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos

•    Rosi Sexton


COACH OF THE YEAR

•    Mark Dellagrotte

•    Greg Jackson

•    Ricardo Liborio

•    Greg Nelson

•    Shawn Tompkins


RING GIRL OF THE YEAR

•    Arianny Celeste

•    Edith LaBelle

•    Holly Madison

•    Natasha Wicks

•    Logan Stanton


GYM OF THE YEAR

•    American Top Team

•    Black House MMA

•    Xtreme Couture

•    Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting

•    Wolfslair


BEST MMA BRAND

•    Bad Boy

•    Hayabusa

•    Silverstar

•    TapouT

•    UFC


BEST OVERALL MMA CLOTHING MANUFACTURER

•    Affliction

•    One More Round

•    Silver Star

•    TapouT

•    Toe2Toe


BEST MMA GLOVES MANUFACTURER

•    Everlast MMA

•    Fairtex

•    Hayabusa

•    Triumph United

•    UFC


BEST MMA SHORTS MANUFACTURER

•    ADX

•    Hayabusa

•    Sprawl

•    Tapout

•    Warrior


BEST MEDIA SOURCE

•    MMAJunkie.com

•    "Inside MMA" on HDNet

•    "MMA Connected" on Sportsnet

•    MMAWeekly.com

•    Sherdog.com


BEST MMA JOURNALIST

•    John Morgan, MMAjunkie.com/Dallas Morning News

•    Gareth A. Davies, Telegraph.com

•    Joe Ferraro, "MMA Connected"

•    Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports

•    Dave Meltzer, Yahoo! Sports/Wrestling Observer


OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MMA (not voted on by fans, but by industry peers)