Best Fighter ESPY Award

The Best Fighter ESPY Award (ESPY means Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) was created by the cable television network ESPN and has been presented annually since 2007 to the professional or amateur boxer or mixed martial arts fighter, irrespective of nationality, gender, weight class, or sanctioning body or league, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. The award subsumed the Best Boxer ESPY Award, limited exclusively to boxers, which was presented between 1993 and 2006, inclusive.

Balloting for the award is undertaken by fans over the Internet from between three and five choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee, and the award is conferred in July to reflect performance and achievement over the preceding twelve months.

List of winners [edit]

Year	Fighter	Nation represented	Sport	Sanctioning body or league	Weight class represented or contested	Other finalists
2007	Floyd Mayweather Jr	United States	Boxing	Not applicable	Welterweight	Miguel Cotto ( Puerto Rico, boxing) Quinton Jackson ( United States, mixed martial arts) Randy Couture ( United States, mixed martial arts) Manny Pacquiao ( Philippines, boxing)
2008	Floyd Mayweather Jr	United States	Boxing	Not applicable	Welterweight Junior middleweight	Joe Calzaghe ( Wales, boxing) Holly Holm ( United States, boxing) Kelly Pavlik ( United States, boxing) Georges St-Pierre ( Canada, mixed martial arts)
2009	Manny Pacquiao	Philippines	Boxing	Not applicable	Super featherweight Lightweight Welterweight	Shane Mosley ( United States, boxing) Lyoto Machida ( Brazil, mixed martial arts) Anderson Silva ( Brazil, mixed martial arts)
2010	Floyd Mayweather Jr	United States	Boxing	Not applicable	Welterweight	Manny Pacquiao ( Philippines, boxing) Georges St-Pierre ( Canada, mixed martial arts)
2011	Manny Pacquiao	Philippines	Boxing	Not applicable	Welterweight	Bernard Hopkins ( United States, boxing) Jon Jones ( United States, mixed martial arts) Sergio Gabriel Martínez ( Argentina, boxing) Georges St-Pierre ( Canada, mixed martial arts)
2012	Floyd Mayweather Jr	United States	Boxing	Not applicable	Welterweight	Andre Ward ( United States, boxing) Jon Jones ( United States, mixed martial arts) Anderson Silva ( Brazil, mixed martial arts)