fighter of the year: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR runner up: danny garcia fight of the year: Lara vs Angulo runner up: bradley-provodnikov knock out of the year: stevenson-dawson comeback of the year: andre ward upset of the year: vera-chavez (chavez lost) round of the yearrovodnikov alvarado round 4 robbery of the year: martinez-murray prospect of the year: lomachenko runner up: deontay wilder bust of the year: seth mitchell most underrated: guillermo rigondeaux most overrated: genady golovkin time to retire before more damage is done to his legacy: sugar shane mosley old but still baaaad award: bernard hopkins the future of boxing: tie: lomchenko/verdujo where is he?: gamboa starting to look over the hill: tie: cotto, pacquiao best boxer: floyd mayweather runner up: rigondeaux best puncher: provodnikov runner up: deontay wilder uncrowned champ: erislandy lara
Too late for Sugar Shane now. Quit with a 'bad back' gainst Mundine a few minutes ago. May not fight again.
How's about a breakout star of the year. Has to be Stevenson or Kovalev IMO (depending of course on what happens Saturday)- I suppose Provo could be in the running too in terms of popularity, though arguably he hasn't achieved as much. Inoue has to be a top new prospect as well.
good feedback, thanks. except for a few big highlights, 2013 was a pretty mediocre year for boxing. mayweather-alvarez and pacquiao-rios were kinda anti-climatic. so were trout alvarez and broner-malignaggi and garcia-matthyse...but the year's not over yet. hoping to see something spectacular in rigo-agbeko and broner-maidana.
lara-angulo is one fight i'll never forget. back and forth action, drama, knockdowns, countless clean shots to the head ...i rank it up there with hearns-hagler, brown-trice I, corrales-castillo and chiquita gonzalez-sorjaturong. angulo will never be the same again.