{"id":464875,"date":"2022-12-08T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=464875"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:35:45","slug":"charles-oliveira-shares-his-pick-for-2022-fighter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/charles-oliveira-shares-his-pick-for-2022-fighter-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Oliveira shares his pick for 2022 fighter of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oliveira has shared his pick for 2022 fighter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/michael-bisping\/michael-bisping-critical-of-kevin-hollands-fight-iq-in-ufc-loss-to-stephen-thompson-that-was-his-ego-getting-the-better-of-him\/\">Michael Bisping<\/a> who posed the question on &#8216;Twitter&#8217; as to who should be crowned the top athlete of the year for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While several fans weighed in on their &#8216;picks&#8217;, which included Islam Makhachev (23-1 MMA), Glover Texeira (33-8 MMA), Alex Volkanovski (25-1 MMA) and Charles (33-9 MMA) himself. It was &#8216;do Bronx&#8217; who named his selection, and it was a fellow Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>Oliveira took to &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>&#8216; and responded via tweeting his selection for fighter of the year:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Poatan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexPereiraUFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlexPereiraUFC<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The man beat a great &amp; very talented champ to capture the 185 belt <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VJ9irOJNNa\">https:\/\/t.co\/VJ9irOJNNa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charles &#39;DoBronxs&#39; Oliveira (@CharlesDoBronxs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesDoBronxs\/status\/1600444093993472000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Alex Poatan @AlexPereiraUFC. <\/em><em>The man beat a great &amp; very talented champ to capture the 185 belt&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alex &#8216;Poatan&#8217; Pereira (7-1 MMA) has undeniably had a good year. The 35 year old fought and defeated Bruno Silva (22-8 MMA) via unanimous decision in March. In July the Brazilian met up with Sean Strickland (25-4 MMA) at UFC 276 and defeated him via way of a knockout. Finishing off the year, Pereira defeated Israel Adesanya (23-2 MMA) via TKO at UFC 281 to capture the middleweight belt.<\/p>\n<p>It was to be the third time Pereira was to defeat &#8216;The Last Stylebender&#8217;, as he&#8217;d met up with him in kickboxing and defeated him twice, then took the fight to the Octagon and defeated him once again to become the UFC middleweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>There is an expectation that Pereira will defend his title against Adesanya in a rematch in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Charles Oliveira that Alex Pereira is the 2022 UFC Fighter of the Year? If not, who would your selection be?<\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the comment section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Oliveira has shared his pick for 2022 fighter of the year. It was Michael Bisping who posed the question on &#8216;Twitter&#8217; as to who should be crowned the top athlete of the year for 2022. While several fans weighed in on their &#8216;picks&#8217;, which included Islam Makhachev (23-1 MMA), Glover Texeira (33-8 MMA), Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54491,"featured_media":371171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10589,39610],"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>Charles Oliveira shares his pick for 2022 fighter of the year | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira has shared his pick for the 2022 MMA fighter of the year award.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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