Best Fighter ESPY Award

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Best Fighter ESPY Award is an award ceremony for the US sports broadcaster ESPN for the most outstanding fighter of the year (on a global basis). Both boxers and MMA fighters can be awarded this prize . From 1993 to 2006 no MMA fighters could be chosen, only boxers, which is why the award was called Best Boxer ESPY Award at that time .

The following table lists all fighters who received this award:

Outstanding fighter of the year
year Award winners nationality sport Weight class Further nominations
2007 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Miguel Cotto ( Boxing ) Quinton Jackson ( MMA ) Randy Couture ( MMA ) Manny Pacquiao ( Boxing ) Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
PhilippinesPhilippines
2008 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Joe Calzaghe ( Boxing ) Holly Holm ( Boxing ) Kelly Pavlik ( Boxing ) Georges St-Pierre ( MMA ) WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
CanadaCanada
2009 Manny Pacquiao PhilippinesPhilippines Filipino Boxing Super featherweight / lightweight / welterweight

Shane Mosley ( Boxing ) Lyoto Machida ( MMA ) Anderson Silva ( MMA ) United StatesUnited States
BrazilBrazil
BrazilBrazil
2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Manny Pacquiao ( Boxing ) Georges St-Pierre ( MMA ) PhilippinesPhilippines
CanadaCanada
2011 Manny Pacquiao PhilippinesPhilippines Filipino Boxing Welterweight

Bernard Hopkins ( boxing ) Jonathan D. Jones ( MMA ) Sergio Martínez ( boxing ) Georges St-Pierre ( MMA ) United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
ArgentinaArgentina
CanadaCanada
2012 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Andre Ward ( Boxing ) Jonathan D. Jones ( MMA ) Anderson Silva ( MMA ) United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
BrazilBrazil
2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Anderson Silva ( MMA ) Danny Garcia ( Boxing ) Jonathan D. Jones ( MMA ) Saúl Álvarez ( Boxing ) BrazilBrazil
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
MexicoMexico
2014 Floyd Mayweather Jr. United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Welterweight

Manny Pacquiao ( Boxing ) Andre Ward ( Boxing ) Jonathan D. Jones ( MMA ) Ronda Rousey ( MMA ) PhilippinesPhilippines
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
2015 Ronda Rousey United StatesUnited States US-american MMA Bantamweight

Donald Cerrone ( MMA ) Floyd Mayweather Jr. ( Boxing ) Terence Crawford ( Boxing ) Gennadi Golowkin ( Boxing ) United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
KazakhstanKazakhstan
2016 Conor McGregor IrelandIreland Irish MMA Featherweight

Roman Gonzalez ( boxing ) Robbie Lawler ( MMA ) Saúl Álvarez ( boxing ) Gennadi Golowkin ( boxing ) NicaraguaNicaragua
United StatesUnited States
MexicoMexico
KazakhstanKazakhstan
2017 Demetrious Johnson United StatesUnited States US-american MMA Flyweight

Conor McGregor ( MMA ) Andre Ward ( Boxing ) Terence Crawford ( Boxing ) Gennadi Golowkin ( Boxing ) IrelandIreland
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
KazakhstanKazakhstan
2018 Terence Crawford United StatesUnited States US-american Boxing Light welterweight

Wassyl Lomatschenko ( Boxing ) Rose Namajunas ( MMA ) Georges St-Pierre ( MMA ) UkraineUkraine
United StatesUnited States
CanadaCanada

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