Knuckle saMMAch's 2011 MMA Awards

Rookie Of The Year (Made their major organization debut with less than 15 fights and 25 years or younger)

Jimy Hettes

runners up

Patricky Freire

Lorenz Larkin

Upset Of The Year

Antonio Silva defeated Fedor Emelianenko by TKO 2nd Round at Strikeforce: Fedor vs Silva

runners up

Tito Ortiz defeated Ryan Bader by Submission 1st Round at UFC 132 

Alexis Vila defeated Joe Warren by TKO 1st Round at Bellator 51 

Event Of The Year

UFC 139: Shogun vs Hendo

runners up

UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber II

UFC 132: Silva vs Okami II

Submission Of The Year

Chan Shun Jung defeated Leonard Garcia by Twister 2nd Round at UFC Fight Night 24 

Runners up

Richard Hale defeated Nik Fekete by inverted Triangle Choke 1st Round at Bellator 38 

Pat Curran defeated Luis Palomino by Peruvian Necktie 1st Round at Bellator 46 

Knockout Of The Year

Lyoto Machida defeated Randy Couture by front kick 2nd Round at UFC 129 

Runners up

Anderson Silva defeated Vitor Belfort by front kick 1st Round at UFC 126 

John Makdessi defeated Kyle Watson by spinning back fist 3rd Round at UFC 129 

Knuckle saMMAch Performance Of The Year

Jon Jones defeated Mauricio Rua by TKO 3rd Round at UFC 128

runners up

Gilbert Melendez defeated Tatsuya Kawajiri by TKO 1st Round at Strikeforce Diaz vs Daley 

Renan Barao defeated Brad Pickett by Submission 1st Round at UFC 138 

Fight Of The Year

Dan Henderson defeated Mauricio Rua by Unanimous Decision at UFC 139

runners up

Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard ended in draw at UFC 125 

Michael Chandler defeated Eddie Alvarez by Submission 4th Round Bellator 58

Women's Fighter Of The Year

Miesha Tate

runners up
Ronda Rousey
Alexis Davis

Fighter Of The Year

Jon Jones

runners up

Dan Henderson

Nick Diaz

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