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Each year MMA pundits and media sources reflect on the previous 12
months of in-cage action and announce the fighter they consider to have
accomplished the most.
MMAjunkie.com decided to instead poll our readers to vote on the fighter
they believe deserves the title of 2011 Fighter of the Year.
Tens of thousands of votes were cast, and as was perhaps was to be
expected, one fighter rose head, shoulders and “Bones” above the
competition.
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Following his UFC 140 victory over Lyoto Machida, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones has supplanted Georges St-Pierre for the No. 2 spot in Yahoo! Sports’ pound-for-pound MMA rankings.
Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva retains the top spot.
However, Jones earned one first-place vote, which means Silva is no longer the consensus No. 1.
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He’s being touted as the next generation of fighter, and 2011 has been a breakout year for the young superstar.
But will UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones hold off ex-champ Lyoto Machida in tonight’s UFC 140 pay-per-view headliner at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre?
That’s the question we asked in our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll.
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“The Ultimate Fighter 14″ concludes this week.
It’s been a landmark season of the UFC’s long-running reality series – both because of its new weight classes, as well as the fact that it’s the final one on Spike TV before a move to FX.
But does “TUF 14″ deserve a passing grade? That’s the question we asked in our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll.
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It was one of the busiest stretches in Ultimate Fighting Championship history.
In the course of just four weeks, the UFC held two pay-per-view events, a
fight card broadcast on Spike TV and a one-hour FOX special – the
company’s first live fight on network television.
But in this modern age of mixed martial arts, when some MMA pundits
claim “over-saturation” of the sport, how many of the UFC’s four events
did you actually watch?
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Brazilian slugger Wanderlei Silva has long provided MMA fans with
highlight-reel finishes, but he’s struggled to just a 2-6 mark in his
past eight trips to the cage.
This weekend, “The Axe Murderer” faces former Strikeforce champ Cung Le
in the co-feature of UFC 139, and UFC president Dana White has suggested
Silva’s career may hang in the balance.
In our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll, we asked readers to
consider Silva’s future. If he falls short against Le, should Silva hang it up?
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It could be the biggest fight in UFC history, but who actually wins it?
In our latest MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll, we asked readers to predict the winner of this weekend’s historic UFC on FOX headliner between heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and top contender Junior Dos Santos.
And according to MMAjunkie.com readers, this one’s a toss-up.
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For once, MMA oddsmakers and MMAjunkie.com readers appear to be on the same page.
After all, when it comes to Saturday’s UFC 137 main event, both are giving the B.J. Penn and Nick Diaz similar odds to win the fight.
And among all those involved, the pay-per-view fight is essentially a tossup.
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It’s often said that wrestling is one of the most important skillsets to
learn when preparing for a mixed-martial-arts contest, but there are a
handful of fighters who boast an especially impressive background in the
art.
NCAA Division I champions are generally considered among the best
wrestlers in the world, and many of those who do not go on to
international careers in the sport opt for trying their hand at MMA.
But of a handful of former Division I champions currently in title
contention in the UFC, which is closest to a shot at the belt?
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Gray Maynard has Frankie Edgar’s number?
Au contraire, say MMAjunkie.com’s readers in the results of this week’s MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll, which were revealed on Friday’s new episode of HDNet’s weekly MMA news show.
Predictions on the outcome of UFC 136′s headliner between lightweight champ Frankie Edgar and challenger Gray Maynard showed faith in the belt staying put.
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