28 April

 


AUNG  La  N  Sang,  Myanmar’s  sports icon and two division ONE Championship World Champion, is  running  in  the  lists  for  two  World  MMA  Awards,  including  Charles  ‘Mask’  Lewis  Fighter  of  the  Year  and  International  Fighter of the Year according to the World MMA website.

 


Voting  is  underway  start-ing from Wednesday at  https://www.worldmmaawards.com/vote/ and will run for four weeks, according to the website.

 


Anyone who want to vote for their  favorites  needs  to  select  him  or  her  and  vote  under  the  two MMA Awards titles.

 


The Voting is underway for the  11th  Annual  World  MMA  Awards,  and  Khabib  Nurmag-omedov, Gegard Mousasi, Dus-tin Poirier, Daniel Cormier and Aung La N Sang are up for the top honor.

 


The Charles “Mask” Lewis Fighter of the Year nominees in-clude Nurmagomedov, Mousasi, Poirier,  Cormier  and  Aung  La  N Sang.

 


The  International  Fighter  of  the  Year  nominees  include  Khabib Nurmagomedov, Kama-ru  Usman,  Isreal  Adesanya,  Gegard  Mousasi  and  Aung  L  N  Sang.  Female  Fighter  of  the  Year finalists include Valentina Shevchenko,  Tatiana  Suarez,  Jessica  Andrade,  Ilima-Lei  Macfarlane and Amanda Nunes.

 


Fight  of  the  Year  include  Robert Whittaker vs. Yoel Romer (UFC  225),  Thiago  “Marreta”  Santos vs. Jimi Manuwa (UFC 231), Rory MacDonald vs. Doug-las Lima (Bellator 192), Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje (UFC on FOX 29) and Tony Ferguson vs. Anthony Pettis (UFC 229).

 


Knockout  of  the  Year  in-clude  Yair  Rodriguez  vs.  Chan  Sung  Jung  (UFC  Fight  Night  139),  Amanda  Nunes  vs.  Cris  Cyborg (UFC 232), Mandel Nallo vs. Carrington Banks (Bellator 207),  Lyoto  Machida  vs.  Vitor  Belfort (UFC 224) and Brian Or-tega  vs.  Frankie  Edgar  (UFC  222).

 


Fighters   Only   Maga-zine  is  hosting  the  annual  awards,  which  will  likely  take  place  in  July  in  Las  Vegas,  according  to  the  statement  on  the  World  MMA  website.—Lynn Thit(Tgi)