WATCH: ONE Championship’s fastest finishes of 2022

The year 2022 is in the past. Many fighters defined the year with their performances in the ONE Championship. Ten athletes scored finishes in less than a minute across their four sports leagues - kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA, and submission grappling.

The promotion organized a YouTube video with the ten noteworthy finishes, counting down from the longest (57 seconds) to the shortest (15 seconds). Here're the ten ONE Championship fighters with the greatest disdain for judges in 2022:

Few could have expected that the winner for fastest finish would come from a submission grappling fight, but Rodrigo Marello led the way with his 15-second ankle lock submission of Ruslan Bagdasarian at ONE 161.

Any notion that grappling matches are slow or lacking in jaw-dropping moments would certainly be challenged by the fact that two of the fastest finishes of the year were from submission grappling.

In kickboxing, the fastest finisher came from Greek heavyweight Giannis Stoforidis. He ended his fight with Beybulat Isaev via a left hook 31 seconds into the fight at ONE: Heavy Hitters last January.

Meanwhile, Muay Thai’s fastest knockout came from Walter Goncalves, unleashing punches and knees on Josue Cruz for a 35 second TKO. The bout was the quarterfinals of a flyweight Muay Thai World Grand Prix in ONE Championship.

The fastest MMA finish of the year came from Korean flyweight Woo Sung Hoon, who stunned Yodkaikaew Fairtex with an overhand right and uppercuts in just 18 seconds. The finish was the first of two first-round knockouts for the Team MAD representative in ONE Championship last year.

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Anatoly Malykhin is ONE Championship 2022 MMA athlete of the year

Of all the standout performances from ONE Championship athletes, one fighter stands above the rest in terms of markers of achievement and upending expectations.

Russia’s Anatoly Malykhin became one of the most feared individuals in the organization with dual knockouts over undefeated opponents, winning a belt in each division.

In February, he fought Kirill Grishenko (5-0 at the time) at ONE: Bad Blood for the interim heavyweight championship. He took out Grishenko at 3:42 in the second round with punches, securing a crack at undisputed world champion Arjan Bhullar later this year.

Last month, he shockingly dropped down a weight class to light heavyweight to face one of the most dominant fighters in ONE, double world champion Reinier de Ridder.

His absolute destruction of de Ridder to win the belt was surprising and almost disorienting because of how untouchable de Ridder seemed before that fight, coming in at 16-0.

The violence and speed at which Malykhin seemed to break De Ridder easily handed him one of the most memorable performances of the year in any organization in 2022.

Malykhin will fight Arjan Bhullar for the heavyweight championship later this spring, setting up one of the biggest fights ever seen in ONE Championship.