Last year i had 1.Israel Vazquez SD12 Rafael Marquez III 2.Antonio Margarito TKO 11 Miguel Cotto 3.Adamek SD Cunningham 4.Carl Froch UD Jean Pascal 5.Joel Casamayor KO9 Micheal Katsidis 6.Rogers Mtagwa-Tomas Villa 7.Adam Richards vs. Chazz Witherspoon - IF you can find it, HW fight of the year. Sick sick fight. 8.Chris Arreola KO Travis Walker 9. Pacman SD JMM 10.Steven Luevano Draw Mario Santiago This year i dont have a list yet(still a lot to go), but i also missed quite a lot of fight which i plan on catching up to. However so far i have - Juan Diaz vs Juan Manuel Marquez - Carl Froch vs Jermain Taylor - Jean Pascal vs Adrian Diaconu Sorry none of Pac's fight qualify. One sided beatings can't be considered FOTY I would need some help on the other great fights i missed this year so far. Thanks ESB!
FOTY for a lot of us is Berto-Collazo so far, what an amazing but somewhat overshadowed war by the scores. Maidana-Ortiz was an absolute war too and there's Dunne-Cordoba too. There are some underrated fights as well, I think Abraham-Oral was very good so was Kotelnik-Maidana, Stieglitz-Balzsay, Concepcion-Salado and that's just few of them. I've heard Campillo-Shumenov is a good candidate too, but it's impossible to get a copy of the fight.
No point in doing a top 10 for this year yet seeing as nearly every big fight has still to come. From now to the end of the year is going to be awesome.
Yea, but i would like a bigger shortlist then the 3 i posted. Obviously i wont do the list till the year is finished.
Not top ten, but these are my favorite fights of 2009... Shane Mosley vs. Antonio Margarito Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz Bernard Dunne vs. Ricardo Cordoba Brian Viloria vs. Ulises Solis Andre Berto vs. Luis Collazo Andreas Kotelnik vs. Marcos Madaina Antonio Diaz vs. Javier Castro Vicente Escobedo vs. Famoso Hernandez Librado Andrade vs. Vitali Tsypko Giovanni Segura vs. Cesar Canchilla II Michael Katsids vs. Jesus Chavez Rocky Martinez vs. Nicky Cook Jermain Taylor vs. Carl Froch Irving Garcia vs. Carlos Abregu Miguel Cotto vs. Joshua Clottey Victor Ortiz vs. Marcos Maidana Jean Pascal vs. Adrian Diaconu Juan Urango vs. Randall Bailey Tavoris Cloud vs. Clinton Woods
so far my top 5 i have in order berto collazo diaz marquez dunne cordoba abregu garcia diaconu pascall
My top 10 in order so far 1- Juan Diaz-Juan Manuel Marquez 2- Andre Berto-Luis Collazo 3- El Famoso-Vincente Escobedo 4- Bernard Dunne-Ricardo Cordoba 5- Jean Pascal-Adrian Diaconu 6- Victor Ortiz-Marcos Maidana 7- Joshua Clottey-Miguel Cotto 8- Michael Katsidis-Jesus Chavez 9- Jermain Taylor-Carl Froch 10- Kermit Cintron-Sergio Martinez
My list so far this year: 1) Dunne-Cordoba 2) Marquez-Diaz <big gap> 3) Pascal-Diaconu 4) Cruz-Solis (the most ignored awesome fight of the year, and maybe the dirtiest fight I've ever seen) 5) Viloria-Solis 6) Sonsona-Lopez (Worth tracking down a copy from this past weekend) 7) Berto-Collazo 8) Escobedo-Hernandez 9) Maidana-Ortiz 10) Froch-Taylor
good list, i might include abregu-garcia and perhaps cook-martinez but it's kinda slim pickins this year as compared to last year