Who's the fighter of the year 2014

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by David Hanssen, Dec 6, 2014.


  1. aries

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    Terence Crawford is my #1


    Followed closely by Pacquiao. I think that Terence has the strongest run considering where he started the year and where he ended it. You can pick at his opponents a bit and call him a big fish in a small pond at lightweight, but I think his run was the most surprising and impressive. But I think Manny is a close second with his win over Tim Bradley, a legit top 5 pound for pound guy and probably the biggest win anybody got this year. Kovalev has a great win too, but I think there’s a big difference between beating a prime Bradley vs beating Hopkins on his way out of boxing. My two cents.
     
  2. Dos Huevos

    Dos Huevos Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's Kovalev but they will give it to Crawfish.
     
  3. hussleman

    hussleman Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Crawford, he really made the boxing world notice him.
     
  4. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Kovalev's win was more significant than anything anyone else's on the list. Point blank. He dominated a top 10 of all time MW, the legit # 2 or 3 LHW, the oldest champion in boxing history. It's not even close.
     
  5. rodney

    rodney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    GGG all day long.
     
  6. Big-Business

    Big-Business Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I agree on picking pac....I think he needed that KTFO 6 to wake him back up to loving boxing again...I think he got board with it, because he had done so much in boxing, it wasn't nothing left to GET UP FOR!!
     
  7. STB

    STB #noexcuses Full Member

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    Not even a mention for Golovkin?
     
  8. Boxing Prospect

    Boxing Prospect Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Inoue, closely followed by Roman

    Amnat Ruenroeng has had an amazing year but Gonzalez sort of ****ped over him with the way he destroyed Fuentes
     
  9. caligula4

    caligula4 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    He was clearly taking the ****.
     
  10. Slick n Jewish

    Slick n Jewish Boxing Addict Full Member

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    if Naoya Inoue defeats Narvaez in a great performance, he should get the nod of FOY. Just the fact of jumping from light flyweight to super flyweight to challenge the best fighter in this division, its quite remarkable, what about to mention that it will be his 8th professional fight? We have to mention too that the transition in the small weights is not easy, because every pound difference means a lot, due to the small size of these guys.

    Crawford is a great promise, but two of his wins came against guys that were having not the best moment of their respective career: Gamboa didn't have a great performance from long time ago, maybe since his win over Orlando Salido, back in 2010, and was inactive for one full year, after his dreadful fight against Darley Perez and also you should take into account that he shouldn't have even been at lightweight. Ricky Burn was flashing his decline two fights before Crawford (Gonzalez and Beltran) and seems that he is finished too. Beltran is a solid ''c" class fighter (like Gabriel Rosado).
     
  11. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Inoue if he beats Narvaez without controversy will take it for me. But if that doesn't happen, then my current order is:

    1. Ruenroeng
    2. Roman
    3. Crawford
    4. Pacquiao
    5. Kovalev
    6. Walters
    7. Wladimir
    8. Mayweather
    9. Alvarez
    10. Golovkin
    11. Cotto
    12. Povetkin

    And then it's a mesh of Drozd, Frampton, Estrada, so on and so on...

    Still have the chance of other fighters entering the discussion among these guys if upsets happen but even if they do the top 6 are pretty much untouchable. Possible underdog conquerors of the 12/30 and 12/31 Japanese cards could earn good shouts and Khan will have had a good year if he beats Alexander without controversy.
     
  12. Xelloss

    Xelloss Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Kovalev -> Crawford - > Wlad - > Walters -> GGG in about that order.

    Kovalev had the best year, fighting often and getting a real good win for the record books.

    Crawford had a couple good wins, put on some good performances.

    Wlad continued to dominate, and had a really nice KO of Pulev who was a legit guy.

    Walters burst on scene win KO over Donaire.

    GGG didnt get the household names, but continued to show that the rest of the division is levels below in entertaining fashion.

    Manny had a good win over Bradley , but decisioning Bradley doe snot a FOTY make in my book. If he had KOed Bradley, or even stopped Algieri maybe I'd consider him in the running.

    But really KOvalev beating a legend handily and unifying titles, combined with a couple KOs, Crawford KOing a name and becoming the "man" at 135, Wlad continuing undisputed dominance and punctuating the year with a great KO, Walters making a real statement against Donaire, and GGG continuing his run of steady high quality work all trump a UD over Bradley and a UD over Algieri in my book.
     
  13. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Untouchable against who you ugly fat ****?
     
  14. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    against your greasy azz, stale dorito smellin momma, thats who.
     
  15. Tancred

    Tancred Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :lol: