What are your top 5 fights/performances/upsets/robberies of the year?

So far:

Fight: Bradley vs Provodnikov
Performance: Alvarado in the second fight against Rios
Upset: Probably Adonis Stevenson against Dawson
Robbery: Wasn't a robbery on the scorecards but the whole Chisora/Scott incident with the ref waving it off at nine was one of the worst cases of hometown cooking I have ever seen.

 

Fight - Froch vs Kessler

Performance - Thompson against Price #2. Masterclass display from Thompson there. It can be debated that Price isn't that good, but you can't fault Thompson's perfect gameplan. He weathered Price's power, changed his gameplan when things weren't working and used the bodyshots and uppercut combos to perfection to wear Price down.

Upset - Rigondeaux vs Donaire

Robbery - Tie between Murray vs Martinez and Burns vs Beltran.

 

Fight: Miura v Thompson and Eto v Porpramook (can t split them)

Performance: I'll need to think about

Upset: Thompson v Price

Robbery: Martinez v Burgos

 

Fight - Bradley vs. Provodnikov

Performance - GGG vs. Macklin

Upset - Thompson vs. Price

Robbery - McCall vs. Zimnoch

 

fight - omar figueroa v Nihito Arakawa

performance - EASILY! rigo v donaire

upset - prob stevenson upsetting dawson

robbery - i honestly dont remember any blatent robberies this year

 

Fight - Bradley vs. Provodnikov
Performance - Rigondeaux vs. Donaire
Upset: Stevenson vs. Dawson
Robbery: Beltran vs. Burns

 

The biggest upset of the year is Gonzalez KO over Mares.

 

Fight: Alvarado/Rios 2
Performance - Rigondeaux/ Stevenson a close second
Upset - Thompson/Price
Robbery: Beltran Burns

 

Fight: Figueroa-Arakawa
Performance: Rigo against Donaire
Upset: Gonzalez over Mares
Robbery: Beltran v Burns

 

Fight: Bradley - Provodnikov
Performance: Rigo - Donaire
Upset: Estrada - Vilora
Robbery: Beltran - Burns

 

Fight: Bradley/Provodnikov, Figueroa/Arakawa, Alvarado/Rios II

Performance: three Kameda brothers holding titles at same time, Rigo over Donaire, Mayweather over Alvarez

Upset: Gonzalez KO Mares, Stevenson KO Dawson... these two were not surprises to me personally but all things considered they are good candidates. Maybe Price vs. Thompson I would be a good one if you really believed in Price.

Robbery: Not many coming to mind worthy of claiming this. Maybe Sergio vs. Murray since the stakes were so high, it was a clear couple points, and robbery of what should have been a second KD. I don't like using that. Usually there are a couple clear robberies by this point. Beltran vs. Burns I guess.

Fighter of the Year: Floyd Mayweather, Danny Garcia, Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guys with great opportunity to finish among the top 5 or so candidates for FOTY: Povetkin (upcoming Wladimir fight), Edwin (upcoming Ward fight to go with Monaco Million), Mikey Garcia (already has Salido and Juanma scalps and going for Romans at 130), Stevenson (Boone II, Dawson KO1, and if he beats Cloud big that would be a top resume for the year), Bradley/Marquez winner

 

I like this.

Estrada/Viloria is a great shout.

 

Fight: Bradley vs Prodo
Performance: Rigo vs Donaire
Upset: Gonzalez over Mares
Robbery: Beltran vs Burns

 

fight: Takayama vs. Rodriguez
performance: Rigo vs. Donaire
Upset: Gonzalez KO over Mares
Robbery: haven't seen Beltran Burns. Haven't seen many bad decisions really. Probably the first ESPN fight with a cuban getting the decision against some middle eastern fighter. I think it was Bartelyme vs Arasnee or something