Now that the year is over, which were the 5 best fights of the year?

Ford vs Kholmatov and Ortiz Jr vs Bohachuck

 

Ford vs Kholmatov.
Teraji vs Canizales.
Ortiz vs Bohachuk.
Wardley vs Clarke.
Magnesi vs Rikiishi.

 

The Heavyweight fights have been the stand out to me.

Joyce/Chisora
Wardley/Clarke 1
Usyk/Fury 1

I also thought the undercard of Tyson vs Paul had FOTY candidates Taylor vs Serano 2 and Barrios/Ramos.

 

A few others that haven't been mentioned that might warrant consideration:

Takei-Higa
Cafu-Tanaka
Tsutsumi-Inoue

 

agreed on chisora-joyce. far from a top level fight but it was so fun to watch. joyce coming forward nonstop showing derek no respect, derek bobbing and weaving like a madman and landing massive overhands on joyces concrete head

 

Usyk vs Fury 1
Barrios vs Ramos
Haney vs Garcia
Munguia vs Surace
Parker vs Zhang

 

2024 had so many great fights for me to only break it down to just 5. My Top FOTY candidates for me in no order:

Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury 1 or 2
Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Serhii Bohachuk
Nikita Tszyu vs Koen Mazoudier
Yoshiki Takei vs Daigo Higa
Kenshiro Teraji vs Carlos Canizales
Michael Magnesi vs Masanori Rikiishi
Owen Cooper vs Ekow Essuman
Brian Norman Jr vs Giovanni Santillan
Nathan Heaney vs Brad Pauls 1 & 2
Sivenathi Nontshinga vs Adrien Curiel 2
Alexis Rocha vs Raul Curiel
Fabio Wardley vs Frazer Clarke 1
Raymond Ford vs Otabek Kholmatov / Nick Ball
Kosei Tanaka vs Phumele Cafu
Takuma Inoue vs Seiya Tsutsumi
Daniel Dubois vs Filip Hrgovic
Caleb Plant vs Trevor McCumby
Tim Tszyu vs Sebastian Fundora
Mario Barrios vs Abel Ramos
Joe Joyce vs Derek Chisora
William Zepeda vs Tevin Farmer

 

that’s why I didn’t include it. Almost immediately it was apparent that anything Dubois threw would hurt AJ. Think I knew from the first time that Dubois landed a jab that the fight wouldn’t go long.

great performance by Dubois, but if we are going to include a bunch of one sided destructions, how about the Anderson-Bakole fight? If anything, that’s a better fight. Yeah, AJ went out on his shield, but Anderson did it while looking like he was willing to be carried out on a stretcher if that’s what it would take to make something happen for him.