Boxing event/development of the year!

Hi guys,

It's the end of the year. A good time to post your memorable moment of the 2013 campaign. Boxing news and events that shaped/will shape the next year.

The event of the year for me has to be the Broner loss to Maidana. This will surely shape up the Welter division and bring clarity when issues were going to be complicated if he remained and campaigned.

It kinda shook me and it shook the world. Some people believed to a certain degree that, while he wasn't the best of the best, he could put up a run for 2013 and end up in mega-fights with other notable names. All of this has changed.

A second event/development of the 2013 year was the Money Mayweather Showtime deal. The BIGGEST news of the 2013 campaign.

Any other items, large or small, do you feel we missed and would like to share?

Cheers...

Donaire getting whipped by Rigo

Garcia putting a first class chin on display against Matthysse.

Paulie really coming on to be a great color man for SHOWTIME.

Arum getting there first in China. That will turn out to be big.

Anyone, at all, defending Broner's behavior is a real shocker to me. Is that really the kind of behavior we want to see anywhere. A foul mouthed, preening, disrespectful, goofy jackass who is constantly doing something bizarre in and out of the ring.

Arum's China angle.... BRILLIANT by Arum, the scum he is.
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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Arum's China angle.... BRILLIANT by Arum, the scum he is.
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Arum going to China is genuinely BRILLIANT. I don't know why so many are against this whole thing but it's genius.

Yes you need to put up with some crap, Zou, but then you also get some brilliant stuff such as Viloria v Estrada, Ishimoto v WV2, Samor v Tso and Tomiyama v Servania. The fact the next show will be the first chance the US audience have to see Murata should be applauded as well.

Sure Arum is doing it because he sees the big bucks and I understand folk being cynical about that but it's a chance for the American audience to finally see some genuine Asian talent and THAT should be applauded.

Broner vs. Maidana wins every category except "KO of the year".

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Originally Posted by Hulk

Broner vs. Maidana wins every category except "KO of the year".

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It was great to see for sure. We really have to stop jumping up and down on the guy. I'll think about it on 1-1-2015 some more. Lol

I really respect anyone who can get in the ring at the pro level. For many different reasons, we're not all up to it, anyway Broner is the first pro fighter I'd never want to meet. The guy absolutely turns me off.

i liked seeing alexander lose

i think there are too many fighters considered top level who rely heavily on holding tactics, alexander being one of the major names

Im not so sure im happy broner lost, I like there being the "untouchable" types around, he's a dick outside the ring but his boxing style isnt dislikeable

the fight/event of the year for me was groves froch and everything that has gone with it, the build up, a cracking fight, the stoppage, the british public opinion swaying so far in the opposite direction

Donaire losing to Rigo was surprising for me.