fighter of 2008 so far

Id say Calzaghe as he has fought the best throughout his long career and not just waited till his last 3 fights to fight guys who are not clinically dead.

vote for margo its his year

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Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al

Id say Calzaghe as he has fought the best throughout his long career and not just waited till his last 3 fights to fight guys who are not clinically dead.

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Right but the "Fighter of the *Year*" is awarded to a fighter for his accomplishments on that given year. Not on a overall career.

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Originally Posted by antimoron

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Originally Posted by killersheep

This is going to sound crazy but I think Roman Gonzalez deserves a mention because of his jumping into the international scene over Niida.

Joan Guzman deserves a mention because he is on so many p4p lists and he hasn't even fought this year.

If Mijares beats Vic he will have picked up 2 extra straps in the puzzle, and that's against pretty good competition in his weight class (If he beats Vic he needs to go after Montiel next)

JuanMa if he looks good against Medina should be mentioned as well.

My final pick from your list is BCD though.

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Guzman who?
NO WAY he is to be considered.. He doesn't deserved it.. He better clean his act first and then we may consider him. No freebies here..

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Hmm I didn't think I would have to mention the sarcasm on that......

Has to be Tony Margarito. Destorying one of the biggest punches in Kermit Cintron then taking forcing Miguel Cotto (The heavy favourite may I add) in a FOTY candidate to quit. Great year for The Tijuana Tornado.

Also a lttle credit should go to Timothy Bradley I may add. Unknown to many fans at the start of 2008. He was a massive underdog against Junior Twitter and went into his backyard and gave him a bit of a lesson IMO. I had him up by 3/4 rounds. A great overhand right shot as well to put Twitter on his ass.

People were then wondering whether that was due to how bad Twitter looked and he then went up against The Cherry Bomb. He dominated that fight as well proving he deserves to be with the elite at 140 pounds. The kid has a bright future no doubt.

b hop took calzaghe to a very close decision and schooled pavlik

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b hop took calzaghe to a very close decision and schooled pavlik

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Nah, Hopkins made a fool of himself in the Calzaghe fight with the low blow play acting shit, I lost a lot of respect for him because of that. The Pavlic fight was a great performance though, so I'd have him second.

Margarito gets my vote though. Stopped a true champion and great P4P fighter in Cotto.

Hopkins for me but it was close with Margarito. Margarito-Cotto and Hopkins-Pavlik both left me in awe, but Hopkins did it with more boxing skills. Huge credit to both fighters though, both are in my top five or so favourite fighters now.

For me its Pacquiao, his close win over Marquez was just as good if not better than Calzaghe's over Hopkins, his distruction of Diaz & still with the DLH fight to come!!!