UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 - Unofficial Awards

Serghei Pavlovich celebrating his win over Derrick Lewis at UFC 277In many ways, UFC 277 set the MMA world straight once again. Considered to be the women’s GOAT, Amanda Nunes regained the women’s bantamweight title, avenging her shocking loss to Julianna Pena from last winter in absolutely brutal fashion. Nunes beat Pena from pillar to post in every aspect of the fight. The standup. The wrestling. The grappling. You name it, Nunes was superior. Some may argue Pena was the better grappler given she threw up submission attempt after submission attempt, but Nunes easily avoided the majority of those efforts and even had the closest successful submission attempt when she had a deep RNC late in the fight. Making more right with the MMA world was Brandon Moreno getting Deiveson Figueiredo to agree to a fourth fight between the two, settling their rivalry once and for all. Of course, it took him winning the interim flyweight title to do – did we really need to create that? — but all feels right with that. Of course, those are only the biggest stories to come out of an impactful event. Let’s get to the rest of the important happenings with my Unofficial Awards....

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