2014 Fighter of the Year: Naoya "Monster" Inoue

The principal standout nominees are:

(world class victories in bold, elite in bold & gold)

• Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao - 2-0 (0), victories over
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  , Chris Algieri
• Sergey Kovalev - 3-0 (2), victories over Cedric Agnew, Blake Caparrello, &
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• Roman Gonzalez - 4-0 (4), victories over Juan Kantun, Juan Purisma,
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  , Rocky Fuentes
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. - 2-0 (2), victories over Marcos Rene Maidana x2
• Naoya Inoue - 2-0 (2), victories over Adrian Hernandez, Wittawas Basapean (with the possibility of adding
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  on December 30th)
• Terence Crawford - 2-0 (1), victories over Ricky Burns,
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  (with the possibility of adding Raymundo Beltran on November 29th)

Polls can fit ten options.

Should the following be added? If so, which of them?

• Adonis Stevenson - 1-0 (0), victories over Andrzej Fonfara (and potentially Dmitry Sukhotsky on December 19th)
• Nicholas Walters - 2-0 (2) victories over Vic Darchinyan,
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• Omar Andres Narvaez - 2-0 (1), victories over Antonio Garcia, Felipe Orucuta (with the possibility of adding
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  on December 30th)
• Carl Frampton - 2-0 (1), victories over Hugo Fidel Cazares, Kiko Martinez
• Alexander Povetkin - 2-0 (2), victories over Manuel Charr, Carlos Takam
• Saul Alvarez - 2-0 (1), victories over Alfredo Angulo,
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  (controversial)
• Bryant Jennings - 2-0 (1), victories over Artur Szpilka,
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• Lucas Martin Matthysse - 2-0 (2), victories over John Molina, Roberto Ortiz
• Wladimir Klitschko - 2-0 (2), victories over Alex Leapai,
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• Gennady Golovkin - 3-0 (3), victories over Osumanu Adama,
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  & Marco Antonio Rubio
• Billy Joe Saunders - 1-0 (1), victories over Emanuele Blandamura (with the possibility of adding Chris Eubank Jr. on November 29th)
• Marco Huck - 2-0 (1), victories over Firat Arslan, Mirko Larghetti
• David Lemieux - 1-0 (1), victories over Fernando Guerrero (with the possibility of adding Gabriel Rosado on December 6th)
• Keith Thurman - 1-0 (1), victories over Julio Diaz with the possibility of adding Leonard Bundu on December 13th)
• Amnat Ruenroeng - 3-0 (3), victories over Rocky Fuentes,
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  & McWilliams Arroyo
• Leonard Bundu - 1-0 (0), victories over Frankie Gavin (with the possibility of adding
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  on December 13th)
• Jessie Vargas - 3-0 (0), victories over Khabib Allakhverdiev, Anton Novikov & Antonio DeMarco
  
• James DeGale - 2-0 (2), victories over Marco Antonio Periban & Brandon Gonzales
• Vasyl Lomachenko - 2-1 (0), victories over Gary Russell Jr., Suriya Tatakhun,
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  .

Is there anybody else in the conversation along with those?

Really nobody on this secondary list ought to be included with the first six names, IMO (except maybe Ruenroeng) - so maybe just leaving the poll at six is best, rather than padding it out just because we can have as many as 10 names.

I will add the final poll on New Years Eve.