The Ring's "Fight of The Year" Award

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  1. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Here is their list; do you take issue with any of the choices? What fights do you think they should have chosen?

    It's a long list, to be sure, so just pick a couple if you want.....

    1945 Rocky Graziano KO 10 Freddie Cochrane
    1946 Tony Zale KO 6 Rocky Graziano
    1947 Rocky Graziano KO 6 Tony Zale
    1948 Marcel Cerdan KO 12 Tony Zale
    1949 Willie Pep W 15 Sandy Saddler
    1950 Jake LaMotta KO 15 Laurent Dauthuille
    1951 Joe Walcott KO 7 Ezzard Charles
    1952
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    KO 13 Joe Walcott
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    KO 11 Roland LaStarza
    1954
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    KO 8 Ezzard Charles
    1955 Carmen Basilio KO 12 Tony DeMarco
    1956 Carmen Basilio KO 9 Johnny Saxton
    1957 Carmen Basilio W 15 Ray Robinson
    1958 Ray Robinson W 15 Carmen Basilio
    1959 Gene Fullmer KO 14 Carmen Basilio
    1960 Floyd Patterson KO 5 Ingemar Johansson
    1961 Joe Brown W 15 Dave Charnley
    1962 Joey Giardello W 10 Henry Hank
    1963
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    W 10 Doug Jones
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    KO 7 Sonny Liston
    1965 Floyd Patterson W 12 George Chuvalo
    1966 Jose Torres W 15 Eddie Cotton
    1967 Nino Benvenuti W 15 Emile Griffith
    1968 Dick Tiger W 10 Frank DePaula
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    KO 7 Jerry Quarry
    1970 Carlos Monzon K0 12 Nino Benvenuti
    1971
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    W 15
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    1972 Bob Foster KO 14 Chris Finnegan
    1973
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    KO 2
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    1974
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    KO 8
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    1975
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    KO 14
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    1976
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    KO 5 Ron Lyle
    1977 Jimmy Young W 12
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    1978 Leon Spinks W 15
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    1979 Danny Lopez KO 15 Mike Ayala
    1980 Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 14 Yaqui Lopez
    1981
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    KO 14
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    1982 Bobby Chacon W 15 Bazooka Limon
    1983 Bobby Chacon W 12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards
    1984 Jose Luis Ramirez KO 4 Edwin Rosario
    1985
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    KO 3
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    1986 Steve Cruz W 15 Barry McGuigan
    1987
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    W 12
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    1988 Tony Lopez W 12 Rocky Lockridge
    1989
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    W 12 Iran Barkley
    1990 Julio Cesar Chavez KO 12 Meldrick Taylor
    1991 Robert Quiroga W 12 Akeem Anifowoshe
    1992
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    W 12
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    1993 Michael Carbajal KO 7 Humberto Gonzalez
    1994 Jorge Castro KO 9 John David Jackson
    1995 Saman Sorjaturong KO 7 Humberto Gonzalez
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    KO 11
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    1997
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    KO 5 Gabriel Ruelas
    1998 Ivan Robinson W 10
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    1999 Paulie Ayala W 12 Johnny Tapia
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    W 12
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    2001
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    W 10 Emanuel Burton
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    W 10
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    2003
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    W 10
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    2004
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    W 12
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    2005
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    KO 10 Jose Luis Castillo
    2006 Somsak Sithchatchawal TKO 10 Mahyar Monshipour
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    2008
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    W 12
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    2009
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    TKO 9
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    2010 Giovanni Segura KO 8 Ivan Calderon
     
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  2. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As an aside, I see Basilio involved in five consecutive Fights of The Year. That's an eye-opener.....
     
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  3. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll start. Jimmy Young was in a fight of the year over possibly the most exciting fight Matthew Franklin participated in. That sentence makes my eyes bleed.
     
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  4. Diagoras

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    Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 14 Yaqui Lopez for 1980, great fight but below Duran vs Leonard I.
     
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  5. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Good, good..........

    Holyfield's 1996 win over Tyson was also the year Barrera won his war of wills against Kennedy McKinney. A completely disgraceful choice.
     
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  6. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Gotta disagree with that.
     
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  7. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Didn´t like Cassius Clay vs Doug Jones.....seems a odd choice to be FOTY
     
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  8. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    While I can't think of another to replace it, I'm sure there were better than this. It was a middling fight at best. They seem to invoke significant fights, rather than fights that were actually good.
     
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  9. LittleRed

    LittleRed Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe one out the Tiger-Fullmer fights. Or perhaps Johnson-Pastrano...
     
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  10. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well at the time, I though Tyson Holyfield was THEE fight of the 1990's about. Perhaps it was shock value of Tyson getting upset like the way he did. Yeah give it a few years and I switch my vote for Barrera, but you have to think what it was like IN 1996, and the hype that fight got, and of couse the shocking after math.
     
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  11. dmille

    dmille We knew, about Tszyu, before you. Full Member

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    No way that Spinks-Ali 1 deserved it over Holmes-Norton!
     
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  12. Brownies

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    I disagree too. Saad Muhammad vs Lopez II is one of my favorite fight of all time.
     
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  13. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I was not around in 1978, but like Tyson Holyfield I, I think it had more to do with this 7 fight underdog upsetting Ali, than the fight being "better".
     
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  14. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1952 - Kid Gavilan vs. Gil Turner - I know Rock vs. Jersey Joe had that iconic finish, but Gavilan Turner was an immeasurably better fight.

    1953 - Joey Giardello vs. Gil Turner - been a while since I watched Rocky vs. Lastarza, but Giardello vs. Turner is much more vivid in my mind as a greater fight.

    1959 - Florentino Fernandez vs. Gaspar Ortega II - Fullmer vs. Basilio was a great performance by Gene and really brutal, but it was utterly one sided and a non issue after a few rounds. Fernandez vs. Ortega was a tightrope savage war the whole way through.

    1960 - Eder Jofre vs. Jose Medel I - hands down really...

    1961 - Haven't seen Brown vs. Charnley, but it must have been great to trump the likes of Gene Fullmer vs. Florentino Fernandez, and Carmen Basilio vs. Gaspar Ortega.

    1963 - There are 3 fights I would put above Clay vs. Jones:
    1. Jose Stable vs. Charley Scott
    2. Gaspar Ortega vs. Charley Scott
    3. Rocky Rivero vs. Florentino Fernandez

    All three had above and beyond action and brutality than that shown in Clay vs. Jones. Clay vs. Jones might have a skill edge though, so perhaps not a horrible choice....

    1964 - Joey Giardello vs. Rocky Rivero - I know Ali vs. Liston had a surprising turn of events and it was a brilliant display by Ali, but greatest fight of the year? Na. Give me Joey vs. Rocky any day

    1965 - Emile Griffith vs. Jose Stable - Brutal fight that was way more entertaining that Patterson vs. Chuvalo
     
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  15. Brownies

    Brownies Well-Known Member Full Member

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    That's a convincing way to prove your point haha ! :thumbsup
     
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