{"id":136025,"date":"2025-09-11T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:37:10","slug":"17th-annual-world-mma-awards-voting-open-mma-junkie-and-mike-bohn-receive-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136025\/","title":{"rendered":"17th annual World MMA Awards voting open; MMA Junkie and Mike Bohn receive nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is underway for the 17th annual World MMA Awards, where Ilia Topuria, Merab Dvalishvili, Alexandre Pantoja, Magomed Ankalaev and Gadzhi Rabadanov are up for the top honor of Charles \u201cMask\u201d Lewis Fighter of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Female Fighter of the Year finalists are Kayla Harrison, Dakota Ditcheva, Jasmine Jasudavicius, Valentina Shevchenko and Natalia Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In addition, MMA Junkie (Media Source of the Year) and Mike Bohn (Journalist of the Year) also are finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters Only Magazine again is hosting the awards. The date and location for a black-tie ceremony hasn&#8217;t been determined, although it typically coincides during the week of the UFC&#8217;s final pay-per-view event of the year in December.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fighters Only, a panel of MMA industry experts put together the list of award nominees for a year-long period covering July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. Voting is now open at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmmaawards.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WorldMMAAwards.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WorldMMAAwards.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of finalists by category:<\/p>\n<p>Charles &#8216;Mask&#8217; Lewis Fighter of the YearFemale Fighter Of The YearBreakthrough Fighter Of The YearInternational Fighter Of The YearFight Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jack Della Maddelana def. Belal Muhammad, UFC 315<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Uman Nurmagomedov def. Paul Hughes, PFL Champions Series: Road to Dubai<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Esteban Ribovics def. Daniel Zellhuber, UFC 306<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nazim Sadykhov def. Nikolas Motta, UFC on ABC 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Joshua Van def. Brandon Royval, UFC 317<\/p>\n<p>Knockout Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shara Magomedov def. Arman Petrosyan, UFC 308<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gustavo Oliveira def. Anas Azizoun, PFL Europe 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mauricio Ruffy def. King Green, UFC 313<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Roberto Soldic def. Sayid Arslanaliev, ONE 171<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fares Ziam def. Matt Frevola, UFC Fight Night 243<\/p>\n<p>Submission Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Khamzat Chimaev def. Robert Whittaker, UFC 308<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Virna Jandiroba def. Amanda Lemos, UFC on ESPN 60<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Paddy Pimblett def. King Green, UFC 304<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Stevie Ray def. Lewis Long, PFL Europe 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jean Silva def. Bryce Mitchell, UFC 314<\/p>\n<p>Comeback Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jared Cannonier def. Gregory Rodrigues, UFC Fight Night 251<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gabe Greeb def. Matheus Camilo, UFC Fight Night 256<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Toshiomi Kazama def. Charalampos Grigoriou, UFC on ESPN 61<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gerald Meerschaert def. Edmen Shahbazyan, UFC on ESPN 62<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Phil Rowe def. Ange Loosa, UFC on ESPN 69<\/p>\n<p>Upset Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Raoni Barcelos def. Payton Talbott, UFC 311<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reinier de Ridder def. Bo Nickal, UFC on ESPN 67<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yuneisy Duben def. Shannon Clark, DWCS 70<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gabriella Fernande def. Wang Cong, UFC Fight Night 248<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Reug Reug def. Anatoly Malykhin, ONE 169<\/p>\n<p>Commentator Of The YearAnalyst Of The YearShawn Tompkins Coach Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mike Brown, American Top Team<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Khabib Nurmagomedov, Abdulmanap School<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pablo Sucupira, The Fighting Nerds<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Make Valle, Valle Flow Striking<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Of The YearGym Of The YearReferee Of The YearRingcard Girl Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nikota Uhlirova, OKTAGON MMA<\/p>\n<p>Leading Man Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Graham Boylan, Cage Warriors<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nobuyuki Sakakibara, RIZIN FF<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Best PromotionPersonality Of The YearBest MMA Programming<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Anik &amp; Florian Podcast<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series<\/p>\n<p>MMA Media Source Of The YearMMA Journalist Of The Year<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aaron Bronsteter, Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Damon Martin, MMA Fighting<\/p>\n<p>Fighting Spirit Award<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ben Askren (surviving double lung transplant)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryan Curtis (surviving spinal injury)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Adam Hicks (battling through brain cancer)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Francis Ngannou (return to fighting after son&#8217;s death)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2025\/08\/13\/17th-annual-world-mma-awards-voting-open-mma-junkie-mike-bohn-nominated\/85625283007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:17th annual World MMA Awards voting open; MMA Junkie, Bohn nominated;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">17th annual World MMA Awards voting open; MMA Junkie, Bohn nominated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voting is underway for the 17th annual World MMA Awards, where Ilia Topuria, Merab Dvalishvili, Alexandre Pantoja, Magomed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11040,49,48,641,3262,51020,30298,30467,21903,73909,638,73910,1302,73908,82,640,11037],"class_list":["post-136025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexandre-pantoja","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-ilia-topuria","tag-jasmine-jasudavicius","tag-kayla-harrison","tag-magomed-ankalaev","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mike-bohn","tag-mma","tag-mma-fighting","tag-mma-junkie","tag-natalia-silva","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-valentina-shevchenko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}