Tapology MMA Rankings

Annual Rankings

Annual Rankings are the place to celebrate the best that MMA had to offer in each calendar year. While regional action is eligible, the rankings will typically be filled with activity from the UFC and other top MMA organizations.

Tapology Annual Rankings are community-generated. Any Tapology user may create and submit their own ranking list. Based on the user's seniority, frequency of updates and comprehensiveness of rankings, the list will be weighted and eligible for inclusion into the consensus rankings.

Annual Rankings

2010 Fights of the Year

Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen

339 Bouts from 1541 contributors

Updated 6 minutes ago

2009 Fights of the Year

Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez

229 Bouts from 1409 contributors

Updated 38 minutes ago

2011 Fights of the Year

Maurício Rua vs. Dan Henderson

449 Bouts from 1491 contributors

Updated 1 day, 18 hours, and 19 minutes ago

2010 KOs of the Year

Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit

165 Bouts from 1360 contributors

Updated 21 minutes ago

2011 KOs of the Year

Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort

203 Bouts from 1396 contributors

Updated 31 minutes ago

2010 Subs of the Year

Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen

121 Bouts from 1252 contributors

Updated 3 days, 16 hours, and 35 minutes ago

2011 Subs of the Year

Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung II

199 Bouts from 1315 contributors

Updated 2 hours and 29 minutes ago

2011 Events of the Year

UFC 139

82 Events from 1013 contributors

Updated 19 minutes ago

2012 Fights of the Year

Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung

353 Bouts from 1096 contributors

Updated 3 minutes ago

2012 KOs of the Year

Edson Barboza vs. Terry Etim

230 Bouts from 1086 contributors

Updated 36 minutes ago

2012 Subs of the Year

Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung

171 Bouts from 1009 contributors

Updated 4 days, 23 hours, and 54 minutes ago

2012 Events of the Year

UFC 142

124 Events from 976 contributors

Updated 5 days, 6 hours, and 20 minutes ago

2013 Events of the Year

UFC 156

116 Events from 761 contributors

Updated 16 minutes ago

2013 Fights of the Year

Jon Jones vs. Alexander Gustafsson

444 Bouts from 906 contributors

Updated 2 days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes ago

2013 KOs of the Year

Anderson Silva vs. Chris Weidman

338 Bouts from 846 contributors

Updated 44 minutes ago

2013 Subs of the Year

Benson Henderson vs. Anthony Pettis II

227 Bouts from 776 contributors

Updated 7 minutes ago

2012 Fighter of the Year

Jon "Bones" Jones

138 Fighters from 784 contributors

Updated 1 hour and 19 minutes ago

2013 Fighter of the Year

Chris "All American" Weidman

349 Fighters from 629 contributors

Updated 1 hour and 19 minutes ago

2014 Events of the Year

UFC 171

112 Events from 576 contributors

Updated 2 days, 16 hours, and 55 minutes ago

2014 Fights of the Year

Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler

883 Bouts from 656 contributors

Updated 4 days, 23 hours, and 49 minutes ago

2014 KOs of the Year

Mark Hunt vs. Roy Nelson

400 Bouts from 634 contributors

Updated 2 minutes ago

2014 Subs of the Year

Ovince St. Preux vs. Nikita Krylov

342 Bouts from 599 contributors

Updated 1 hour and 11 minutes ago

2014 Fighter of the Year

"Ruthless" Robbie Lawler

409 Fighters from 620 contributors

Updated 1 hour and 20 minutes ago

2015 Events of the Year

UFC 189

112 Events from 516 contributors

Updated 4 days, 6 hours, and 13 minutes ago

2015 Fights of the Year

Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald II

255 Bouts from 593 contributors

Updated 1 hour and 12 minutes ago

2015 KOs of the Year

Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm

278 Bouts from 570 contributors

Updated 56 minutes ago

2015 Subs of the Year

Cain Velasquez vs. Fabrício Werdum

208 Bouts from 531 contributors

Updated 55 minutes ago

2015 Fighter of the Year

"The Notorious" Conor McGregor

286 Fighters from 567 contributors

Updated 8 minutes ago

2016 Events of the Year

UFC 196

96 Events from 493 contributors

Updated 36 minutes ago

2016 Fights of the Year

Robbie Lawler vs. Carlos Condit

184 Bouts from 571 contributors

Updated 30 minutes ago

2016 KOs of the Year

Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping II

237 Bouts from 537 contributors

Updated 2 days, 12 hours, and 48 seconds ago

2016 Subs of the Year

Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz

146 Bouts from 496 contributors

Updated 29 minutes ago

2016 Fighter of the Year

Stipe Miocic

215 Fighters from 539 contributors

Updated 29 minutes ago

2017 Events of the Year

UFC 217

188 Events from 435 contributors

Updated 3 days, 6 hours, and 31 minutes ago

2017 Fights of the Year

Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Johnson

252 Bouts from 500 contributors

Updated 28 minutes ago

2017 KOs of the Year

Alistair Overeem vs. Francis NGannou

330 Bouts from 491 contributors

Updated 6 minutes ago

2017 Subs of the Year

Aleksei Oleinik vs. Viktor Pešta

215 Bouts from 443 contributors

Updated 26 minutes ago

2017 Fighter of the Year

Max "Blessed" Holloway

212 Fighters from 486 contributors

Updated 3 days, 5 hours, and 24 minutes ago

2018 Events of the Year

UFC 229

333 Events from 402 contributors

Updated 25 minutes ago

2018 Fights of the Year

Justin Gaethje vs. Dustin Poirier

286 Bouts from 471 contributors

Updated 2 days, 3 hours, and 33 minutes ago

2018 KOs of the Year

Chan Sung Jung vs. Yair Rodriguez

259 Bouts from 461 contributors

Updated 24 minutes ago

2018 Subs of the Year

Aleksei Oleinik vs. Júnior Albini

245 Bouts from 410 contributors

Updated 24 minutes ago

2018 Fighter of the Year

Daniel "DC" Cormier

237 Fighters from 462 contributors

Updated 23 minutes ago

2019 Events of the Year

UFC 236

196 Events from 360 contributors

Updated 21 minutes ago

2019 Subs of the Year

David Branch vs. Jack Hermansson

171 Bouts from 348 contributors

Updated 21 minutes ago

2019 KOs of the Year

Ben Askren vs. Jorge Masvidal

248 Bouts from 425 contributors

Updated 20 minutes ago

2019 Fights of the Year

Kelvin Gastelum vs. Israel Adesanya

327 Bouts from 439 contributors

Updated 20 minutes ago

2019 Fighter of the Year

Israel "The Last Stylebender" Adesanya

210 Fighters from 424 contributors

Updated 19 minutes ago

2020 Fighter of the Year

Jan Błachowicz

332 Fighters from 406 contributors

Updated 57 minutes ago

2020 Fights of the Year

Weili Zhang vs. Joanna Jędrzejczyk

313 Bouts from 468 contributors

Updated 5 minutes ago

2020 KOs of the Year

Impa Kasanganay vs. Joaquin Buckley

218 Bouts from 429 contributors

Updated 4 minutes ago

2020 Subs of the Year

Kevin Lee vs. Charles Oliveira

147 Bouts from 354 contributors

Updated 40 minutes ago

2020 Events of the Year

UFC 249

86 Events from 356 contributors

Updated 40 minutes ago

2021 Fighter of the Year

Kamaru "Nigerian Nightmare" Usman

416 Fighters from 360 contributors

Updated 5 minutes ago

2021 Fights of the Year

Justin Gaethje vs. Michael Chandler

455 Bouts from 451 contributors

Updated 1 day, 3 hours, and 48 minutes ago

2021 KOs of the Year

Cory Sandhagen vs. Frankie Edgar

337 Bouts from 406 contributors

Updated 14 minutes ago

2021 Subs of the Year

Rodolfo Vieira vs. Anthony Hernandez

207 Bouts from 317 contributors

Updated 59 minutes ago

2021 Events of the Year

UFC 261

114 Events from 326 contributors

Updated 1 day, 12 hours, and 25 minutes ago

2022 Fighter of the Year

Alexander "The Great" Volkanovski

589 Fighters from 333 contributors

Updated 53 minutes ago

2022 Fights of the Year

Glover Teixeira vs. Jiří Procházka

553 Bouts from 438 contributors

Updated 3 minutes ago

2022 KOs of the Year

Kamaru Usman vs. Leon Edwards II

398 Bouts from 370 contributors

Updated 17 minutes ago

2022 Subs of the Year

Glover Teixeira vs. Jiří Procházka

233 Bouts from 293 contributors

Updated 10 minutes ago

2022 Events of the Year

UFC 275

232 Events from 324 contributors

Updated 9 minutes ago

2023 Fighter of the Year

Sean "Tarzan" Strickland

634 Fighters from 248 contributors

Updated 4 minutes ago

2023 Fights of the Year

Islam Makhachev vs. Alexander Volkanovski

654 Bouts from 285 contributors

Updated 20 minutes ago

2023 KOs of the Year

Alex Pereira vs. Israel Adesanya II

327 Bouts from 239 contributors

Updated 24 minutes ago

2023 Subs of the Year

Valentina Shevchenko vs. Alexa Grasso

168 Bouts from 194 contributors

Updated 17 minutes ago

2023 Events of the Year

UFC 285

166 Events from 228 contributors

Updated 13 minutes ago

2024 Fighter of the Year

Dricus "Stillknocks" Du Plessis

246 Fighters from 67 contributors

Updated 15 minutes ago

2024 Fights of the Year

Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis

199 Bouts from 85 contributors

Updated 10 minutes ago

2024 KOs of the Year

Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria

90 Bouts from 84 contributors

Updated 9 minutes ago

2024 Subs of the Year

Jim Miller vs. Gabriel Benítez

61 Bouts from 66 contributors

Updated 14 minutes ago

2024 Events of the Year

UFC 298

37 Events from 71 contributors

Updated 43 minutes ago

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