Best Of 2007...so Far

Best Chin - Librado Andrade

Worst Chin - Audley Harrison

 

Not a bad list, 2 changes:

Biggest mismatch (in a title fight): Chad Dawson vs Jesus Ruiz

Worst fight (in a big fight): Briggs vs Ibragimov (this was WAY WORSE than Spinks vs Taylor, no matter what anyone says, atleast Spinks vs Taylor showed skill, neither Briggs or Ibragimov showed ****)

 

A few disagreements...

Round of the year - Vasquez/Marquez round 3
KO of the Year - Andy Lee's KO of Carl Daniels
Mismatch of the Year - Enzo Macca vs Bobby Gunn; 2 of the 3 biggest mismatches of the year were on the same card
Prospect of the Year - Odlanier Solis

 

Fight of the Year: Juan Manuel Marquez vs Marco Antonio Barrera

can't get more technical and exciting at the same time than this fight.

 

I enjoyed watching JMM vs Barrera the most this year

 

Best performance : De La Hoya. When everyone was expecting a shut out from PBF, he just made the fight and even won in many eyes (like mine).

Fight of the year : JMM/MAB. I enjoyed that fight.

 

Bravo

 

I agree with you, that fight was class. I really tend to enjoy technical matches that have a bit of raw brutality in them over raw brutality with a bit of technicality over it, and then definitley enjoy both of the above over club fighters slugging each other, i.e. Gatti/Ward.

Jmm/Barrera was action packed, technically sound and competitive, very entertaining.

 

Most feared person in each division(biggest risk/lowest reward)

Heavyweight: Sam Peter
Cruiserweight: Darnell Wilson
Light Heavyweight: Adrian Diaconu
Super Middleweight: Lucian Bute
Middleweight: Kelley Pavlik
Lt.Middleweight: Joel Julio
Welterweight: Joshua Clottey
light welterweight: Vivian Harris
Lightweight: Nate Campbell
SuperFeatherweight: Humberto Soto
Featherweight: Nicky Cook
Super bantam: Celestino Cabrello
Bantamweight: Silence Mabuza
Super flyweight: Jose Navarro
Flyweight: Vic Darchinyan
light flyweight: Omar Romero
Strawweight: Ronald Barrera

 

Thorough and educated thread. Nice.

 

That was one of those very few fight where you can apreciate the quintessence of boxing.
Each punch was thrown perfectly with everything behing, power, speed, balance, agressiveness... textbook punches.
I was very impressed by Marquez performance in that fight. I think he deserved to win (althought not as one sided as the judges saw) and Barrera did very well too with the perfect right cross counter punch that dropped Marquez.

Definitely one of the best fights of the decade.

 

MR Excitement Machine- Michael Katsidis

 

nice how long did you take to type all that?