2009 in Review: Fighter of the Year & other awards & videos!

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by BigBone, Dec 22, 2009.


  1. Hermit

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    And just to keep it on the front page..... :bump
     
  2. BigBone

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    Thx, I'm updating the first post! Also, here are some tribute videos made by boxing fans, not always the best video image but still great stuff:

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  3. BigBone

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  4. Hermit

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    You get my vote for under appreciated thread of the year.
     
  5. cubex

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    This year started terrible aswell with Don Miguel passing...
     
  6. BigBone

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    The past few days were definitely very negative for boxing. Hopefully we'll get only positive things from now on. Anyways, here's the final list of my choices for 2009 with the underrated picks, the brave risk takers and the champions we lost.

    Fighter of the Year: Manny Pacquiao
    Underrated run: Tim Bradley

    Fight of the year: Juan Manuel Lopez UD12 Rogers Mtagwa
    Underrated fight: Johnny Perez UD12 Joseph Agbeko

    Round of the year: Marcos Maidana TKO Victor Ortiz, R1

    Underrated round: Zsolt Erdei vs. Giacobbe Fragomeni, R12

    Knockout of the year: Lucian Bute KO4 Librado Andrade

    Underrated knockout: Toshiaki Nishioka KO4 Jhonny Gonzalez

    Upset of the year: Juan Carlos Salgado TKO1 Jorge Linares

    Underrated upset: Victor Ramirez RTD9 Alexander Alexeev

    Dominance of the year: Wladimir Klitschko RTD9 Ruslan Chagaev
    Underrated dominance: Brian Viloria KO11 Ulyses Solis

    Blowout of the year: Hasegawa Hozumi TKO1 Vusi Malinga

    Underrated blowout: Juan Carlos Salgado TKO1 Jorge Linares

    Prospect of the year: Saul Alvarez
    Underrated prospect: Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam

    New Champ of the year: Koki Kameda
    Underrated new champ: Luis Concepcion

    Comeback of the year: Amir Khan

    Underrated comeback: Robert Stieglitz

    Robbery of the year: Sergio Martinez D12 Kermit Cintron

    Underrated robbery: Felix Sturm UD12 Khoren Gevor

    Blind Judge of the year: Gale E. Van Hoy
    Underrated blind judge: Daniel Talon

    Brave risk takers in 2009: Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Zsolt Erdei, Sergio Martinez, Jermain Taylor, Vic Darchinyan, Enrique Ornelas, Roy Jones Jr, Gerry Penalosa, Beibut Shumenov

    Champions we lost: Alexis Argüello, Johnny Caldwell, Lou Filippo, Chris Finnegan, Vernon Forrest, Arturo Gatti, Yuh Hwan-kil, Ingemar Johansson, Raul Macias, Greg Page, Giovanni Parisi, Jisselle Salandy, Darren Sutherland, Jose Torres; R.I.P!
     
  7. BigBone

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    Of which year? :nut
     
  8. Mind Reader

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    Excellent work BigBone:happy

    I enjoyed your entire post, good insight, way to go.:good