The 2023 ESPY Award nominees have been introduced with a number of UFC fighters nominated for awards.
In one of many evening’s largest classes, welterweight champion Leon Edwards has made the lower in Greatest Championship Efficiency for his breath-taking comeback KO victory towards Kamaru Usman to win the title.
“Rocky” is up towards fellow superstars Nikola Jokić, Lionel Messi and Rose Zhang for the award.
In addition to Edwards, UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones has made it into two classes due to his UFC return after a 3 12 months break the place he debuted at heavyweight, profitable the vacant title by submitting Ciryl Gane in simply over two minutes.
Nominated for each Greatest UFC Fighter and Greatest Comeback Athlete, “Bones” is again on prime and it was solely a matter of time earlier than accolades began piling again up.
The 4 nominees for Greatest UFC Fighter, together with Edwards and Jones, are rounded out by the dominant light-weight champion Islam Makhachev and the just lately retired feminine GOAT two-division champion Amanda Nunes.
Lacking from the checklist is Israel Adesanya who just lately claimed he ought to win fighter of the 12 months at the very least.
Israel Adesanya Snubbed At The ESPY Awards
Lengthy earlier than the nominees had been introduced, Israel Adesanya made it clear that he believes he must be flying again to New Zealand with a number of awards beneath his belt.
Posting a textual content alternate on Twitter, “The Final Stylebender” stated that he deserves recognition in comeback, KO and fighter of the 12 months.
Sadly for Izzy, because the messages recipient identified, the ESPYS solely have one out and out class for MMA, UFC Fighter Of The 12 months which he was not nominated for.
Many followers disagreed with Adesanya’s assertion, declaring that Leon Edwards could be eligible for all three of the classes Israel believed he must be prime in.
While Edwards acquired two nominations, there is no trophy ready for Israel on this explicit event.
ESPY 2023! pic.twitter.com/VADjlo1D3a
— Israel Adesanya (@stylebender) April 26, 2023
