Winner of This Fight is Fighter of The Year.

The winner will earn the title of Fighter of the Year EXCEPT if Ruiz returns another wank to Joshua.

 

Agreed. Yarde + Jacobs were huge wins. Also agree with GGGfans, if Ruiz beats Joshua again he will probably be given it though.

 

Good list @George Crowcroft , will Nonito Donaire be on that list IF he pulls an upset against Inoue ?

 

I am pretty disgusted you have Club fighter Taylor on the list, you must be very British

 

Im favouring Canelo to win but as for your OP.. I dunno.. Gvozdyk & Prograis are (when you apply full context) excellent wins & maybe better than a 2019 Kovalev.. Those are young undefeated prime fighters at there peak.. & a guy [Canelo] who turned in a positive drug test will forever have an asterisk attached too.. Dchenko (a relative novice by comparison) is matching Canelos performances give or take a round & barring the chin..

Taylor won the WBSS. Beterbiev walked through Gvozdyk to unify.. Canelo will have beat Kovalev who is just a few month shy of 37. Yes, 37.. like most of his wins*.. old..

Jacobs? Well.. good fighter yes, but again his MW days are over.. & he'd been beat twice already too.. hey, your opinion is your opinion but boxing is a young mans game mostly unless your Manny Pac..

Canelo is expected to win here. Taylor, Manny, Ruiz, Beterbiev etc were underdogs or only slight favourites.. the manner of the victory will defo matter here too..

 

i said right away you were a sharp kid. youve become one of the solid boxing heads in record time, even if ive disagreed with you sometimes. i happen to agree with your op.

 

If Canelo wins, absolutely. Top 5 MW and top 3 LHW.

If Kovalev wins, he has low-end-top-10 LHW and #1 MW.

 

If Kovalev wins big deal he beat a blown up juiced MW and maybe wasn't as shot as many expected.

If Clenelo wins it's either due to corruption or Kovalev being washed up(maybe both) This fight is just the usual Vegas ****.

 

Inoue?

Rodriguez an unbeaten young champ (lights out) and titlist Donaire (providing Monsta wins big) is better than anyone any of the op opponents mentioned, and NOT more shot than Kovalev at this point, see recent results.

I think Ruiz-AJ will split wins and powers to be hyping up the Canelo win will pick him, but Monsta is making this sport look easy while beating actual champs.

 

Canelo if he wins might take it.

His haters can pretend Kovalev is walking around with a wooden stick , but reality shows Canelo is fighting a LHW who just captured a title and defended it against a young and dangerous top 10 ranked mandatory.

A little past prime he might be , but that only matters against other top rated LHWs. It doesn't and shouldn't factor into the equation against tiny guys with a weak punch and flat feet from two divisions bellow.

Take for example Golovkin who is a year older than Kovalev and supposedly lost his prime years ago. Being on the slide doesn't mean a guy like Errol Spence can hop up two divisions and take care of him.
GG would beat Spence ans everybody knows it.

Canelo having no business at 175 evens out the playing field against Kovalev.

If he overcomes this massive risk he's achieved greatness for himself and is no doubt a top FOTY candidate.

 

If the guy who wins does it in decisive fashion, this could be the fight of the year. If he wins by BAD decision or by some fluke, either man, it’s just another bad fight. The bar is set pretty high for fight of the year. Neither man has been in a fight that would rank top 5 for a long time. I hope they both bring their best game and that the winner is clear and decisive. That’s all I want from this one.

 

McDonnel cut so much weight his lips fell off.