Who's The 2022 Fighter of the Year?

Cuadras giving Estrada a tought night was more due to Estrada being war torn. Caudras and Rungvisai have looked awful in the last few years. Surprisingly, Roman looks fresher than Estrada esepcially since he was brutally iced by Rungvisai. I don't think Nonito got old overnight. He said he came into the fight in the best shape of his life (no weight loss regimen as part of camp), the most motivated he has ever been, and he looked crisp with his shots and light on his feet until that picture perfect right hand scrambled his senses. He's going to clean out 115 if he decides to drop down.

 

Added Roman and Estrada and the ability to change you vote to Inoue.

 

Obliterating your statement is mental gymnastics? Sure, if that's what you need to label it to cope. Just like when you insisted that SSR was the much bigger man than Bam when every single available image and frame of film says you're a delusional dummy.

 

If not outright better, it's not far behind. Optics favor Clenelo (face of boxing, huge fan base, P4P #1 ranking due in large to the aforementioned items), but take a closer look. Clenelo has historically looked bad against guys with movement (Mayweather, Lara, Trout, Golovkin I and II) and 168 was a wasteland with guys like Saunders and Plant looking bad and/or pedestrian in their previous bouts and still had success against Clenelo. We saw what Nonito was about. Nonito had 2 highlight reel KO before the first Inoue fight and 2 more before the rematch. Too much emphasis on Nonito's age as a detraction whilst ignoring what he was actually doing. Pac, Marquez, Hopkins, and Floyd all operated at an elite level despite advance age.

Bivol dominated Clenelo. Inoue destroyed Nonito in scintillating fashion. Manner of victory counts as well.