Molly McCann nominated for prestigious BT Sport Action Woman of the Year Award for 2022

Molly McCann has been on an excellent run in the UFC for the past two years.

She was the only female British fighter on the massively successful UFC London card earlier this year, where the Liverpudlian unleashed a vicious spinning back elbow on her opponent Luana Carolina to secure a dominant win.

BT Sport announced on October 20 that Molly McCann has been nominated for the annual BT Sport Action Woman of the Year Award for 2022, along with Beth Mead and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix among others.

The award celebrates six of 2022’s standout performances by British female athletes in what has been yet another historic year for women in sports around the world.

The winner will be decided by a public vote and will be revealed during a grand ceremony on November 16, 2022. The event will be broadcasted live on BT Sport television channel and digital platforms, as well as on BT Sports' Facebook and YouTube channel.

Fans can cast their vote here. Voting closes on November 9.

The other nominees for the award this year are (as provided by BT Sport):

Beth Mead (Soccer) - Winner of the 202022 UEFA Women’s Euro Golden Boot and Player of the Tournament, also nominated for this year's Ballon d'Or Feminin.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (Diving) - 18-year-old gold medalist in the 10m Platform and Mixed 10m Synchronized Platform (with Noah Williams) and silver medalist in 10m Synchronised Platform (with Eden Cheng) at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Hannah Cockroft, OBE (Athletics) - Winner of gold medal in the T33/34 100m race at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, completing the set of gold medals at every major athletics championships. The 30-year-old was competing at the Commonwealth Games for the first time and set a new Games record time of 16.84.

Eilish McColgan (Athletics) - The Scottish runner claimed the first major title of her career at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters and a silver medal in the 5,000 meters.

Eve Muirhead, OBE (Curling) - Led her team to a 10-3 win over Japan at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and won her first ever Olympic gold medal.

The shortlist has been selected by a panel of judges which included BT Sport’s Clare Balding CBE, Dame Katherine Grainger DBE, Sue Anstiss MBE and Ugo Monye.

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Molly McCann's UFC career

After losing to Gillian Robertson on her promotional debut, Molly McCann picked up three unanimous decisions and then dropped two to Taila Santos and Lara Procopio. 'Meatball' turned things around with her victory over Ji Yeon Kim at UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till.

Molly McCann went on to finish Luana Carolina and Hannah Goldy in her next two outings with two back-to-back spinning elbow knockouts and find her way into the top 15 UFC flyweight rankings.

McCann also became only the second fighter in the promotion's history with multiple knockout victories stemming from a spinning back elbow. Ricardo Ramos was the first to accomplish the feat.

Molly McCann is set to face Erin Blanchfield at UFC 281 on November 12. The pay-per-view event, headlined by a middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira, will take place at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.