You know what sucks, is that it was a helluva fight.. and nobody talks about that. They just talk about Ortiz quitting, and fail to mention how great the fight was.
i would say so...but the fact that it was more of a fight, as opposed to a blow out, and his comeback agaist antonio diaz, kinda made up for it...now, if ORTIZ would have lost to diaz, and did horrible against ARNAOUTIS, theeen THE MAIDANA loss, THEN he would be exposed in MY eyes
As stated earlier, Ortiz VS Maidana was in my opinion FOTY before Ortiz did that stunt. Sure, he did quit, but he is working his way up the ladder again. Hell, if Khan can become a World Champion(who i believe is THE comeback fighter of the year) Im sure Ortiz can do it too.
FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: Manny Pac FIGHT OF THE YEAR: Diaz vs. JMM ROUND OF THE YEAR: Williams vs. Martinez round 1 KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR: Pac KO2 Hatton Abraham KO12 Taylor UPSET OF THE YEAR: Shane Mosley vs. Antonio Margarito COMEBACK OF THE YEAR: Paulie Malignaggi ROBBERY OF THE YEAR: Khoren Gevor vs. Felix Sturm WORST FIGHT OF THE YEAR: V. Klitschko vs. Kevin Johnson D. Haye vs. N. Valuev MISSMATCH OF THE YEAR: V. Klitschko vs. Kevin Johnson A. Abraham vs. Mahir Oral lots of others. SHOCK OF THE YEAR: Probably Green vs. Jones HELLO: Denis Boytsov Robert Helenius Denis Lebedev GOOD BYE: Oleg Masaev Shannon Briggs Lamon Brewster Antonio Margariot (suspension) Enzo Maccarinelli BEST DIVISION OF THE YEAR: WW WORST DIVISION OF THE YEAR: MW UNDERRATED: Tomasz Adamek OVERRATED: David Haye "WHERE DID HE COME FROM?": Zsolt Erdei to CW. "WHERE DID HE GO?": Guillermo Jones BEST NEWS of 2009: SUPER SIX TOURNAMENT RIP: Inegmar Johansson Forrest Gatti Arguello BLOODY MUG OF THE YEAR: MAB vs. Khan "WE NEED MORE OF IT" OF THE YEAR: Better match making. "WHAT A WASTE" OF THE YEAR: Chad Dawson IRON CHIN: Tomasz Adamek GLASS JAW: Salita? BEST JAB: Wladimir Klitschko BEST UPPERCUT: Arthur Abraham DREAM FIGHTS FOR 2010 Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Tua David Haye vs. Tomasz Adamek Chad Dawson vs. somebody in his prime Guillermo Jones vs. Somebody Andrew Golota vs. Riddick Bowe III ( ) Arthur Abraham vs. Carl Froch Kelly Pavlik vs. Khoren Gevor ( ! ) BJ Flores vs. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk Krzysztof Wlodarczyk vs. Denis Levedev Nicolay Valuev vs. Vitali Klitschko just off the top of my head.
Anthony Small v Thomas McDonagh was far far worse i'd urge you to watch it but you might slip into a coma