2014 Fighter of the Year: Naoya "Monster" Inoue

Crawford or Inoue if they win their next fights.

IB, can you do a fight of the year thread? I want to see if I missed anything.

 

I'll hunt down my list of the Fight of the Year contenders if you want? Some pretty obscure things in there

 

Sure. Obscure is what i'm looking for. Thx. :bbb

 

ggg and Frampton have impressed me this year

I guess lomachenko is something special, likes to bite off more than most can chew.

 

John Molina Vs Lucas Martin Matthysse
Yoshihiro Kamegai Vs Robert Guerrero
Terence Crawford Vs Yurorkis Gamboa
Tommy Coyle Vs Daniel Eduardo Brizuela
Omar Figueroa Vs Daniel Estrada
Travis ****inson vs Matty Clarkson
Rodrigo Guerrero vs Daniel Rosas
Koki Eto Vs Ardin Diale
Javier Mendoza Vs Ramon Hirales Garcia
Terdsak Kokietgym Vs Orlando Salido
Katsunari Takayama Vs Francisco Rodriguiez Jr
Akira Yaegashi Vs Roman Gonzalez
Kongfah Nakornluang Vs Den Baansuan Samlansaraburi (insane fight)
Giovani Segura vs Felipe Salguero
Jaesung Lee Vs Takuya Watanabe (Blood bath)
Juan Carlos Reveco vs Felix Alvarado
Amir Mansour vs Steve Cunningham
Curtis Stevens Vs Tureano Johnson
Monty Meza Clay Vs Alan Herrera
Jerome Wilson v Serge Amboma I
Ben Wager vs Kofi Yates
Dean Francis vs Bob Ajisafe
Yodmongkol Vor Saengthep Vs Takuya Kogawa
Jessie Vargas Vs Antonio DeMarco
Francisco Rodriguez Jr Vs Jomar Farjado

Probably missing some but it's a decent list I think to start from

 

Great List :deal

 

thx for this.

 

Great list. Not sure how Watanabe got back to Japan, he left a year supply of blood over Lee.
Kongfah fight is amazing. Most action in fight this year, Shane both men not good.

 

If you feel like adding fights between two evenly matched bums, Adrien Broner vs Emmanuel Taylor was also a decent s****

 

Wow MVC and other *****s not polluting this thread and suggesting floyd be FOTY.
They must really respect IB

 

Roman Gonzalez

 

I agree with almost everything said here.

But how can you say Lomachenko is a "good shout" and Vargas is a "HELL NO" when Lomachenko lost to the best fighter he faced and only beat two unproven nobodies (relative to FOTY discussion, not "nobodies in general"). Meanwhile Vargas actually accumulated better victories.

Ranking Lomachenko and Vargas' wins for the year:
1. Vargas W Khabib
2. Vargas W DeMarco
3. Lomachenko W Russell Jr.
4. Lomachenko W Piriyapino
5. Vargas W Novikov

Fighter of the Year should be and is based on what they do in the ring and whom against, not a popularity contest rewarding the most heavily hyped.

 

Kovalev. No one epected him to win the way he did against Hopkins. Sure we all knew he had power and his best chance was to wear Bernard down and stop him. But he beat him at every facet of the fight. Two of the best got in the ring and one controlled it and made it look easy.

 

Not to sound like an *******, because your overall point is correct, but I said over and over that Kovalev would win 119-109. I didn't think it would be 120-107 exactly, but the fight went exactly how I knew it would.

 

Good prediction. :good