While not quite the FOTY. For matches involving lower tier fighters with several losses. These are quite thrilling at times, and thankfully relatively short. Patryk Syzmanski vs. Robert Talarek This content is protected Ricards Bolotniks vs Gasan Gasanov This content is protected Serhiy Demchenko vs Hakim Zoulikha II This content is protected
At the world level Doheny Vs Roman was dramatic and exciting (and has the profile needed to be considered) Kyoguchi Vs Hisada GGG Vs Derveyanchenko Akhmedov Vs Barrios At a lower level Taniguchi Vs Ishizawa Saito Vs Suzuki
Has to be included ,multiple knockdowns ,huge upset and don't see the rematch being a nail biter this time but we'll see. If Ortiz can take 10 years off one more time and come in at 39 ,we could get a good one there again to.
IDK, … A Great fight has to have every element ,with back and forth /knockdowns ,mayb)e blood ? Optional,and tough calls and close to near ending rounds that could shift either way. 1. Joshua vs Ruiz ( This fight is just to important and has many of the elements to not be on here even if other fights were more action packed altogether rounds ) Multiple knockdowns and challenger winning a fight after getting knocked down first is a rarity. 2. Kovalev vs Yard. Another fight that was within a few punches from being a different outcome, Yarde took severe punishment after round 5 and almost made it to the end in a fight that ended up being how long would the challenger last and you watched him fight the time instead of Kovalev . 3. Makabu vs Papin This fight was non stop from round 1 to the end, where a different finish may have happened had the round had a little more time.
I agree with most of whats been said here, but I rem. thinking hurd vs jrock was a consideration for foty when it happened, been a few since then but still think this deserves a mention