{"id":180786,"date":"2015-12-28T07:29:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=180786"},"modified":"2015-12-28T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:30:53","slug":"fighter-of-the-year-award-who-did-it-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/fighter-of-the-year-award-who-did-it-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter of the Year Award:  Who did it best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179472\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo-300x156.png\" alt=\"Conor McGregor Jose Aldo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo-390x203.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conor-McGregor-Jose-Aldo.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you thought there was anyone else who did it better than &#8220;The Notorious&#8221; Conor McGregor, we&#8217;re all ears. Love him or hate him, McGregor fought three times and ended all three contests in brutal fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Siver was the first of three this year who squared up against McGregor at UFC Fight Night in Boston MA earning The Notorious one performance of the night by punishing Siver via TKO in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Mendez at UFC 189 finally lived up to his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/money-mendes-will-get-paid-even-if-he-doesnt-fight-at-ufc-189\/\">Money<\/a>&#8221; moniker earning him half a million just to show up against McGregor, then being the recipient of a McGregor left ended the contest in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last and certainly not least UFC 194 Jose &#8220;Scarface&#8221; Aldo vs Conor <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-conor-mcgregor-gives-girlfriend-44000-rolex-for-christmas\/\">McGregor <\/a>was everything the brash Irishman said it would be. 13 seconds into the first exchange McGregor shut the lights off on the most dominant featherweight in any organization with a left that ended Aldo&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p>With those three performances is there another fighter who achieved more in 2015?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Conor-McGregor1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115722\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Conor-McGregor1-300x207.png\" alt=\"Conor McGregor\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Conor-McGregor1-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Conor-McGregor1-361x250.png 361w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Conor-McGregor1.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought there was anyone else who did it better than &#8220;The Notorious&#8221; Conor McGregor, we&#8217;re all ears. Love him or hate him, McGregor fought three times and ended all three contests in brutal fashion. Dennis Siver was the first of three this year who squared up against McGregor at UFC Fight Night in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":153847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighter of the Year Award: Who did it best? | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/fighter-of-the-year-award-who-did-it-best\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighter of the Year Award: Who did it best? | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you thought there was anyone else who did it better than &#8220;The Notorious&#8221; Conor McGregor, we&#8217;re all ears. 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