The 2024 Heavies' Awards: Fight of the Year - WINNER: Max Holloway vs. Justin Gaethje

[Gio]

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Greetings and welcome once again to the 2024 Heavies Awards!

We'd like to thank everyone who has tuned in and participated in these threads so far. We appreciate you taking time to read, react, vote, and comment. Now, I'll be presenting the nominees for the Heavies' Fight of the Year in 2024.

There are lots of deciding factors to determine a "Fight of the Year" contender. These include: excitement, back and forth action, skill level, overall damage, and divisional significance. When two skilled warriors collided, elevated each other's game, they fought their hearts out, and made fans enjoy a level of mixed martial arts mastery that they would not see in a one-sided fight. These are the fights that left us in awe and made us proud to be an MMA fan.

And with that said, it's time! Here are the nominees for 2024 Heavies' Fight of the Year.

The Nominees

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Mateusz Rebecki def. Mykybek Orolbai
UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway - Oct. 26, 2024

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Islam Makhachev vs. Dustin Poirier
UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier - Jun. 1, 2024

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Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway
UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway - Oct. 26, 2024

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Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber
UFC 306: O'Malley vs Dvalishvili - Sep. 14, 2024

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Max Holloway vs. Justin Gaethje
UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill - Apr. 13, 2024

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Clay Collard vs. Patricky Pitbull
PFL 2 (2024) - Apr. 12, 2024

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Patchy Mix vs. Magomed Magomedov
Bellator Champions Series 2: Mix vs. Magomedov 2 - May 17, 2024

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Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler
UFC 309: Jones vs Miocic - Nov. 16, 2024

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Jean Silva vs. Drew Dober
UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Cortez - July 13, 2024

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Dustin Poirier vs. Benoit Saint Denis
UFC 299: O'Malley vs Vera 2 - Mar. 9 2024

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Big ups to our Sherdog.com Staff Members. Check out their pick for Sherdog's 2024 Fight of the Year right here!
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[Arqueto]

The one that came to me straight away was Max vs Justin. It delivered one of the greatest just bleed moments I can remember

 

[Elegant]

Jiri vs Rakic for me, not really that close either

 

[Luthien]

All the Poatan fights had me jumping up and down

@rj144

 

[VinceArch]

So many good fights took place in 2024, I'll be surprised if this year comes close..

 

[BangBang]

The one that came to me straight away was Max vs Justin. It delivered one of the greatest just bleed moments I can remember

True, but it was a fairly one-sided fight. It wasn't Pantoja v Moreno, or a Glover v Jiri. For me, the fight of year has to be ate least competitive.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Rebecki/Orolbai.

 

[Gio]

Remember, you have (2) votes in this thread

 

[Arqueto]

True, but it was a fairly one-sided fight. It wasn't Pantoja v Moreno, or a Glover v Jiri. For me, the fight of year has to be ate least competitive.

True, I need to go and rewatch some fights. That moment in that fight just came to me straight away, but it was a pretty one-sided fight.

I'm a filthy casual these days

 

[markg171]

Where the hell is Pereira/Rountree???

 

[laleggenda27]

Jiri-Rakic

 

[Neck&Neck]

For me Holloway vs Gaethje wasn’t best KO or best fight of the year
But looking like it will be voted that way from the Dog



Could of been a few other fights on this list I feel

From the list I went with:

Mateusz Rebecki def. Mykybek Orolbai
Esteban Ribovics vs. Daniel Zellhuber

 

[Harlekin]

Well, we shouldn't complain about MMA sites, when sherdoggers are as retarded. As usual.

 

[vinnie245]

Mind boggling that such a mostly 1 sided fight such as Gaethje/Holloway would get the majority of the votes just because of its admittedly phenomenal finish, to me it shows that people just tend to think of specific moments in a fight rather than the fight as a whole...
My picks from the list would be Islam/Poirier (In terms of importance) and Rebecki/Orolbai (In terms of brutality and excitement) as others have mentioned its still missing a couple good entries though like Jiri/Rakic and Perreira/Rountree.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Remember, you have (2) votes in this thread

In that case, my first choice would be Rebecki vs Orolbai. I still can’t believe what I saw on my screen, god damn, that fight was a war!

My second choice is Max vs Gaethje.

Ribovics vs Zellhuber is also up there, but if it were up to me, that one would win Round of the Year (are we also doing an award for that?)

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Miffed that so many believe that one sided beatdown that Max gave Justin was FOTY

 

[Gio]

In that case, my first choice would be Rebecki vs Orolbai. I still can’t believe what I saw on my screen, god damn, that fight was a war!

My second choice is Max vs Gaethje.

Ribovics vs Zellhuber is also up there, but if it were up to me, that one would win Round of the Year (are we also doing an award for that?)

Solid picks bud.

We're not doing a round of the year thread, but we got the fighter of the year award here!

 

[HHJ]

Max/Justin is ko of the year not fight of the year.

That goes to orolbai/rebecki

 

[Iroh]

All the Poatan fights had me jumping up and down

@rj144

Nice bikini! Would wear!

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]