Most boring year for boxing?

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  1. TinFoilHat

    TinFoilHat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What do you guys think was the most boring year for boxing?

    I personally think it might be 2016. I can't remember a year being that boring since I started watching the sport in 2004. Anyone have any different opinions?
     
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  2. Flamazide

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    I liked 2016. Frampton v Cruz, Vargas v Salido, Lomachenko is always a beauty to see in the ring regardless of who he fights, Joshua's improvements are fun to track, Thurman v Porter was a good fight, Soto Karass v Kamegai, Gassiev vs Lebedev, Golovkin vs Brook wasn't a bad fight at all, tons more. I have no problems with 2016 at all.
     
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  3. miniq

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    I didn't feel that engaged in 2016...defintly a momemtum shift happening over the past 3 years with lots of household names leaving.

    Lots of big names and great boxers all fighting pointless opposition as normal.
     
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  4. MUFA$A

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    2016 ended badly for boxing but i think 2015 was pretty boring TBH...
     
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  5. TinFoilHat

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    2016 did have Kovalev Ward, but that fight wasn't judged correctly.
    I thought 2015 had enough big and medium fights in it where it was a fun year. I think one of the problems with 2016 was a lot of the better fights were on PPV, so that makes it seem like there were even less fights. Even then, those fights weren't worth paying full price for.
     
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    I think there were more pointless fights in 2016 than in any other year. I think every fighter was trying to be the replacement mayweather, not realizing it takes more than being undefeated to do so. Even then, there can only be ONE at a time. So you just had a bunch of guys trying to protect their "0".
     
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  7. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    98 and 99 were kind of lousy. 98 was only saved by Gatti vs Robinson I and II. 99 was saved from complete ignominy by Tapia vs Ayala plus Dereck Jefferson vs Maurice Harris a somewhat entertaining heavyweight scrap. 2016 had Salido vs Vargas, Thurman vs Porter, Santa Cruz vs Frampton I, plus you might throw Gonzalez vs Cuadras and Chisora vs Whyte in there too.
     
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  8. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    If you mean in terms of the best facing the best instead of action fights then:

    2001
    Bernard Hopkins vs Felix Trinidad
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Naseem Hamed
    Floyd Mayweather vs Diego Corrales
    Felix Trinidad vs William Joppy
    Kostya Tszyu vs Zab Judah
    Rafael Marquez vs Mark Johnson
    2002
    Shane Mosley vs Vernnon Forrest
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Johnny Tapia
    Floyd Mayweather vs Jose Luis Castillo
    Oscar De La Hoya vs Fernando Vargas
    Erik Morales vs Paulie Ayala
    Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson
    Rafael Marquez vs Mark Johnson
    2003
    Shane Mosley vs Oscar De La Hoya
    Bernard Hopkins vs William Joppy
    Roy Jones Jr vs John Ruiz
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Manny Pacquiao
    Lennox Lewis vs Vitali Klitschko
    James Toney vs Vassiliy Jirov
    2004
    Shane Mosley vs Winky Wright
    Bernard Hopkins vs Oscar De La Hoya
    Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Paulie Ayala
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales
    Felix Trinidad vs Ricardo Mayorga
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    2005
    Bernard Hopkins vs Jermain Taylor
    Roy Jones Jr vs Antonio Tarver
    Felix Trinidad vs Ronald Wright
    Kostya Tszyu vs Ricky Hatton
    Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao
    Jose Luis Castillo vs Diego Corrales
    2006
    Shane Mosley vs Fernando Vargas
    Bernard Hopkins vs Antonio Tarver
    Oscar De la Hoya vs Ricardo Mayorga
    Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao
    2007
    Shane Mosley vs Miguel Cotto
    Bernard Hopkins vs Ronald Wright
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    Marco Antonio Barrera vs Manny Pacquiao
    Floyd Mayweather vs Oscar De La Hoya
    Floyd Mayweather vs Ricky Hatton
    Jose Luis Castillo vs Ricky Hatton
    Miguel Cotto vs Zab Judah
    Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vazquez
    Nonito Donaire vs Vic Darchinyan
    2008
    Shane Mosley vs Ricardo Mayorga
    Bernard Hopkins vs Joe Calzaghe
    Bernard Hopkins vs Kelly Pavlik
    Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito
    Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vazquez
    Carl Froch vs Jean Pascal
    2009
    Shane Mosley vs Antonio Margarito
    Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton
    Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto
    Juan Manuel Marquez vs Floyd Mayweather Jr
    Sergio Martinez vs Paul Williams
    Andre Ward vs Mikkel Kessler
    Carl Froch vs Jermain Taylor
    2010
    Shane Mosley vs Floyd Mayweather Jr
    Bernard Hopkins vs Roy Jones Jr
    Bernard Hopkins vs Jean Pascal
    Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito
    Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura
    Pongsaklek Wonjongkam vs Koki Kameda
    Sergio Martinez vs Paul Williams
    Sergio Martinez vs Kelly Pavlik
    Andre Ward vs Sakio Bika
    Fernando Montiel vs Hozumi Hasegawa
    Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler
    Carl Froch vs Arthur Abraham
    2011
    Shane Mosley vs Manny Pacquiao
    Bernard Hopkins vs Jean Pascal
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Mayorga
    Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito
    Ivan Calderon vs Giovanni Segura
    Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye
    Nonito Donaire vs Fernando Montiel
    Nonito Donaire vs Omar Narvaez
    Pongsaklek Wonjongkam vs Edgar Sosa
    Paul Williams vs Erislandy Lara
    Andre Ward vs Arthur Abraham
    Andre Ward vs Carl Froch
    Brian Viloria vs Giovani Segura
    2012
    Shane Mosley vs Saul Alvarez
    Floyd Mayweather vs Miguel Cotto
    Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley
    Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    Roman Gonzalez vs Juan Francisco Estrada
    Sergio Martinez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
    Andre Ward vs Chad Dawson
    Danny Garcia vs Amir Khan
    Carl Froch vs Lucian Bute
    2013
    Floyd Mayweather vs Saul Alvarez
    Nonito Donaire vs Guillermo Rigondeaux
    Nonito Donaire vs Vic Darchinyan
    Juan Francisco Estrada vs Brian Viloria
    Tim Bradley vs Juan Manuel Marquez
    Danny Garcia vs Lucas Matthysse
    Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler
    Carl Froch vs George Groves
    2014
    Bernard Hopkins vs Sergey Kovalev
    Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley
    Miguel Cotto vs Sergio Martinez
    Wladimir Klitschko vs Alexander Povetkin
    Nonito Donaire vs Nicholas Walters
    Roman Gonzalez vs Akira Yaegashi
    Juan Francisco Estrada vs Giovani Segura
    Terence Crawford vs Yuriorkis Gamboa
    Vasyl Lomachenko vs Gary Russell Jr
    Naoya Inoue vs Omar Narvaez
    Kell Brook vs Shawn Porter
    2015
    Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao
    Miguel Cotto vs Saul Alvarez
    Wladimir Klitschko vs Tyson Fury
    Roman Gonzalez vs Edgar Sosa
    Roman Gonzalez vs Brian Viloria
    Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal
    Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux
    Krzysztof Glowacki vs Marco Huck
    2016
    Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley
    Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol
    Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal
    Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter
    Oleksandr Usyk vs Krzysztof Glowacki
    Leo Santa Cruz vs Carl Frampton
    Krzysztof Glowacki vs Steve Cunningham
    Roman Gonzalez vs Carlos Cuadras

    I don't know. 2006?
     
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  9. MUFA$A

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    Correct . That was the reason I said 2016 ended badly . A very bad decision that hurt boxing and drove even more fans away from the sport .
    2015 to me was just a letdown .
     
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  10. Drachenorden

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    2015 was actually the most boring IMO.
     
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  11. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    2015

    Orlando Salido vs Roman Martinez I & II

    Ola Afolabi vs Victor Ramirez

    Francisco Vargas vs Takashi Miura

    Nathan Cleverly vs Andrzej Fonfara

    Marco Huck vs Krzysztof Glowacki
     
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  12. TinFoilHat

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    You said 2006 was a bad year but I think there were more fights you forgot.

    Lacy Vs Calzaghe
    Judah vs Mayweather
    Wright vs Taylor
    Cotto vs Paulie M

    Maybe not the greatest fights, but it was big names fighting one another. Regardless, 2016 felt really lacking. Maybe it was because some of the better fights like Crawford vs Postol were on PPV and I didn't watch them because it was overpriced. Same with Canelo vs Khan. Not the worst fight, but had it been free it would make the year much more exciting for me.
     
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  13. james5000

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    FFS that was a mismatch of epic proportions and in no way what so ever was it a good fight, bloody terrible for the sport . Brook isn't even that good at 147
     
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  14. Flamazide

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    He was on the pound for pound list and considered by many to be the best welterweight. Also arguably gave Golovkin his toughest fight and impressed tons of people that night. Entertained loads of people.
     
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  15. james5000

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    Who would be stupid enough to argue Brook gave GGG his hardest fight ffs he didn't evendors make it half way?

    I have never seen Brook on a p4p list? Brook is the total opposite of p4p, picks on small guys and struggles badly with limited guys his size as well as gets ktfo by guys bigger than him.
     
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