Stipe should win fighter of the year.

[Alanf7]

Koed Arlvoski(i'm still salty about this) to get his titleshot. Went on to put Werdum to sleep and become champ followed up by putting Reem to sleep with his first title defence. And all those koes were in the first round too.

 

[Deleted member 501827]

He has lethal hands. Crazy power and accuracy. Hard to imagine anyone within shot beating him right now. Ironically I see guys like Struve and Rothwell stylistically harder fights for him.

 

[Sonny Qc]

I'm still going with Bisping and I don't like the dude...

 

[Cheapshart]

Stipe's a good shout.

 

[Benjamin Burton]

going with stipe. he beat overeem and werdum who are still in their prime. bisping beat two guys way over the hill.

shit i still think silva knocked him out before the buzzer. his win over hendo was also highly controversial (i think hendo won).

stipe knocked them the fuck out. no controversy.

 

[ZuffaExecutive]

2 weight champ

 

[Woliwo]

Good choice, but I would go with Bisping.

 

[Tamriel Terror]

going on a streak in a divison where anyone can ko you is impressive enough but doing it at Stipe's level and not to mention all his wins are tkos/kos.

I think he has earned it

If not him then it has to be Bisgoat

 

[FranOlivetto]

True

 

[Tamriel Terror]

2 weight champ

The guy whos 2-1 on the year and got choked out by a gatekeeper lw?

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Koed Arlvoski(i'm still salty about this) to get his titleshot. Went on to put Werdum to sleep and become champ followed up by putting Reem to sleep with his first title defence. And all those koes were in the first round too.

Bisping, in my humble opinion.

Overeem threw the fight away, and Werdum ran into a man's fist - seemed almost on purpose it was so bad lol.

Stipe has had a crazy year though.

 

[Schoolboy Q]

He certainly had a great year, became top contender by shattering Arlovskis glass chin, flattened Werdum with one punch and defended his belt against the rightful #1 contender.

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

True

Is that Werdum airing his handshake attempt?

 

[frandie2b]

Yeah I go with Stipe too. He KO'd 3 HW legends.

Bisping had 2 controversial decisions..

 

[FranOlivetto]

Is that Werdum airing his handshake attempt?

I thought the same. If so, bad example. Stipe is a great guy!

 

[ZuffaExecutive]

The guy whos 2-1 on the year and got choked out by a gatekeeper lw?

Never been done before.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

I agree with you TS.

 

[MisterDizzy]

If he defended one more time this year for sure. Right now going with Ping. Even if didn't fight Dan he's still probably the fighter of the year for beating Rockhold and Andy.

 

[Alanf7]

Never been done before.

Yeah never has there been a more gifted titleshot than Conor's lmao.

 

[g*r*b]

Never been done before.

ALSO never been done before?

Earn a title shot, win the title and defend it...in a total of 8 minutes and 8 seconds of fighting time.

Unprecedented in the UFC, I think...the Spider came close but took 30 seconds more.