Boxing Writers of America Fighter of the Year Nominees

[Freedom]

The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2018 awards. The nominees for Fighter of the Year award are:

1 Oleksandr Usyk
2 Vasiliy Lomachenko
3 Maurice Hooker
4 Mikey Garcia
5 Terence Crawford

Who would you choose?

[powerpuncher]

Didn’t even think about Hooker but that’s a decent choice.

Usyk wins hands down for me though

[Master]

I want to vote Loma but have to give it to Usyk

[p4pking]

It’s pretty clearly Usyk, he cleaned out the division, fought the best possible guys and fought more often than all the others if I’m not mistaken. Hard to pick a second, not a lot between them. My opinion of Loma hasn’t gone down at all, but he only fought twice in 2018 and they weren’t his best performances. Both guys had been beaten more soundly by other guys and made him look human.

[Ron Swanson]

Usyk, hands down

Edit-if Garcia has fought Spence in December and shown well win or lose I’d vote for him. Winning a belt at 140, unifying at 135 and fighting the best at 147 would have won out for me.

[Freedom]

Oleksandr Usyk named ESPN 2018 fighter of the year

[Freedom]

[ykdadamaja]

The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2018 awards. The nominees for Fighter of the Year award are:

1 Oleksandr Usyk
2 Vasiliy Lomachenko
3 Maurice Hooker
4 Mikey Garcia
5 Terence Crawford

Who would you choose?

The heart would say Mikey Garica for going in between weights with bigger guys and winning titles. But there is no consistency.

It's easy to say Crawford as well- who is my top for p4p best in the world, and Loma is #2 to me.

But we simply cannot deny what Usyk has done THIS YEAR, even though Crawford did the same thing last year, and that is unify the belts- and did so against the top guys in the division and also blasting through a tough Marco Huck prior to 2018 and then chopping down a Tony Bellew who just recently RETIRED former WBA HW champion, David Haye.

Gatta be Usyk.

[Freedom]