2005 was the first full year of operation for this site and we marked that by presenting our first ever awards voting for MMA, K-1 and K-1 MAX. We asked our voters to look at only official K-1 and K-1 MAX fights/events, and with MMA they were to look at all fights in MMA from any promotion worldwide. They were to look at everything that happened on the MMA scene in Japan, the US, Europe, Brazil and anywhere they thought of that took place between January 1st and December 31st 2005. The results below are for MMA.

For the K-1 MAX Awards results please click here.

For the K-1 Awards results please click here.

Fighter of 2005

1.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua (39%)
2.  Takanori Gomi (32%)
3.  Fedor Ememlianenko (17%)
4.  Georges St. Pierre (4%)
= 5.  Hideo Tokoro (2%)
= 5.  Caol Uno (2%)

Others: KID Yamamoto, Ricardo Arona

Fight of 2005

1.  Joachim Hansen vs. Caol Uno (23%)
2.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua vs. Antonio Rogerio Noguiera (21%)
3.  Fedor Emelianenko vs. Mirko Cro Cop (16%)
4.  Forrest Griffin vs. Stephan Bonnar (10%)
5.  Takanori Gomi vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (7%)

Others: Joe Stevenson vs. Luke Cummo, Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua vs. Ricardo Arona, Mark Hunt vs. Mirko Cro Cop, Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg, Joachim Hansen vs. Yves Edwards, Hayato Sakurai vs. Joachim Hansen, Luiz Azeredo vs. Luiz Firminho

Most Entertaining Fighter of 2005

1.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua (32%)
2.  Takanori Gomi (18%)
3.  Genki Sudo (9%)
4.  Hideo Tokoro (8%)
5.  Kazushi Sakuraba (6%)

Others: Georges St. Pierre, Ikuhisa Minowa, KID Yamamoto, James Thompson, Fedfor Emelianenko, Antonio Rogerio Noguiera, Joachim Hansen, Luiz Azeredo, Caol Uno

Biggest Star of 2005

1.  Fedor Emelianenko (25%)
= 2.  Chuck Liddell (17%)
= 2.  Takanori Gomi (17%)
4.  KID Yamamoto (14%)
5.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua (11%)

Others: Rich Franklin, Hidehiko Yoshida, Andrei Arlovski, Genki Sudo, Kazushi Sakuraba, Ikuhisa Minowa, Randy Couture, Matt Hughes

Breakthrough Fighter of 2005

1.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua (49%)
2.  Georges St. Pierre (15%)
3.  Hideo Tokoro (12%)
= 4.  Johnathan Goulet (4%)
= 4.  Takanori Gomi (4%)
= 4.  Alistair Overeem (4%)

Others: Shinya Aoki, James Thompson, Mike Bisping, Dan Henderson, Andrei Arlovski, Murilo Bustamante

Comeback Fighter of 2005

1.  Hayato Sakurai (56%)
2.  Dan Henderson (12%)
3.  Phil Baroni (8%)
4.  Murilo Bustamante (7%)
= 5.  Mark Hunt (5%)
= 5.  Tito Ortiz (5%)

Others: Mark Weir, Kazushi Sakuraba, Tim Sylvia

Rookie of 2005

= 1.  Antonio Silva (20%)
= 1.  Pawel Nastula (20%)
3.  Katsuhiko Nagata (18%)
4.  Takeya Mizugaki (14%)
= 5.  Mizuto Hirota (9%)
= 5.  Poai Suganuma (9%)

Others: Eoh Won Jin, Marcio Cruz

Upset of 2005

1.  Hideo Tokoro vs. Pequeno Noguiera (19%)
2.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua vs. Quinton Jackson (12%)
3.  Phil Baroni vs. Ryo Chonan (11%)
4.  Ricardo Arona vs. Wanderlei Silva I (10%)
= 5.  Diego Sanchez vs. Nick Diaz (7%)
= 5.  Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture (7%)

Others: Hayato Sakurai vs. Joachim Hansen, Bobby Ologun vs. Akebono, Alistair Overeem vs. Igor Vovchanchyn, KID Yamamoto vs. Genki Sudo, Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Remigijus Morkevicius, Takanori Gomi vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri, Yves Edwards vs. Dokonjonosuke Mishima, Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ken Shamrock, Mark hunt vs. Mirko Cro Cop, Hideo Tokoro vs. Royce Gracie

KO of 2005

1.  Takanori Gomi vs. Luiz Azeredo I (14%)
2.  KID Yamamoto vs. Royler Gracie (13%)
3.  Rich Franklin vs. Nate Quarry (8%)
= 4.  Aleksander Emelianenko vs. Ricardo Morais (7%)
= 4.  Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua vs. Quinton Jackson (7%)
= 4.  Tim Sylvia vs. Tra Telligman (7%)

Others: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Zuluzhino, Heath Herring vs. Yoshihiro Nakao, Ray Sefo vs. Kim Min Soo, Curtis Stout vs. Sol Gilbert, Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ken Shamrock, Joachim Hansen vs. Caol Uno, James Irvin vs. Terry Martin, Joachim Hansen vs. Masakazu Imanari, Luiz Azeredo vs. Naoyuki Kotani, Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua vs. Ricardo Arona, Sergei Kharitonov vs. Pedro Rizzo, David Loiseau vs. Charles McCarthy, Charles ‘Krazy Horse’ Bennett vs. Yoshiro Maeda, Brandon Vera vs. Fabiano Scherner, Andrei Arlovski vs. Paul Buentello.

Submission of 2005

1.  Genki Sudo v. Hiroyuki Takaya (13%)
2.  Kazushi Sakuraba v. Ikuhisa Minowa (12%)
3.  Antonio Rogerio Noguiera v. Dan Henderson (10%)
4.  Yves Edwards v. Dokonjonosuke Mishima (8%)
= 5.  Alistair Overeem v. Igor Vovchanchyn (7%)
= 5.  Andrei Arlovski v. Tim Sylvia (7%)

Others: Takanori Gomi vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri, Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Naoya Ogawa, Josh Thomson vs. Daisuke Sugie, Shinya Aoki vs. Keith Wisniewski, Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg, Alistair Overeem vs. Vitor Belfort, Georges St. Pierre vs. Frank Trigg, Paul Buentrello vs. Kevin Jordan

Show of 2005

1.  Pride: Bushido 9 (58%)
2.  Pride Middleweight GP Finals (22%)
3.  K-1 Hero’s Tournament, Second Round (7%)
4.  Pride Otoko Matsuri 2005 (4%)
= 5.  Pride: Bushido 7 (2%)
= 5.  Ultimate Fighter 2 Season Finale (2%)

Others: Pride Middleweight Grand Prix Opening Round, Cage Rage 14, Pride: Bushido 8, UFC 52

Promotion of 2005

1.  Pride (inc. Bushido) (54%)
2.  UFC (19%)
= 3.  Cage Rage (11%)
= 3.  K-1 Hero’s (11%)
5.  ZST (4%)

Others: TKO