What are your 2016 boxing of the year awards?

From my home boxing message board here are my choices.... Whatchew got?

There are some very good candidates but for:

The Kevin Sinclair (Rasta) TTR Fighter Of The Year 2016: my vote goes to Carl Frampton 23-0 (14 KO) who as an underdog unified the IBF & WBA super bantamweight titles vs. then undefeated champ in Scott Quigg 30-1-2.... Frampton followed that feat up by challenging himself again this time moving up in weight to challenge another highly regarded then undefeated champion in WBA Featherweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz 32-1-1... Again as an underdog Frampton won decisively.... Although he only fought twice in 2016 Frampton gets the nod from me.... Carl won't be sitting on the new title either as he has the rematch vs. Leo Santa Cruz already signed for 1-28-17.....

2016 TTR Comeback Fighter Of The Year: my vote here goes to Manny Pacquiao who in 2016 beat tough veteran Timothy Bradley Jr 33-1-1 decisively and followed that up by capturing yet another world title (WBO World welterweight title) vs. the highly regarded Jessie Vargas 27-1....

2016 TTR Fight Of The Year: Was thinking Salido - Vargas but after watching the Chizz vs. Whyte bout my vote goes to the Brits.... The most exciting heavyweight fight I've seen in years. Two heavyweights trading bombs in a phone booth round after round.... Honorable mention goes to McDonnell UD Kameda...

2016 TTR Knockout Of The Year: Vasyl Lomachenko Destroys Rocky Martinez at MSG ...



2016 TTR Boxing Network Of The Year: Astor's Living Room of course 8) but SHO has owned HBO the last few years by featuring better more competitive fights and more of them....


2016 TTR Boxing Commentator Of The Year: Al Bernstein


2016 TTR Prospect Of The Year: Ievgen Khytrov 14-0 (12 KO) Man, this kid's a beast looking to do damage w/ his fists


2016 TTR Breakthrough Performance Of The Year: Joe Smith Jr. KO 1 Andrej Fonfara


2016 TTR Upset Of The Year: Jezreel Corrales KO 2 Takashi Uchiyama


2016 TTR Trainer Of The Year: Robert Garcia


2016 TTR Arturo Gatti Memorial Award: Orlando Salido, and I hope he's still got one great fight left in him too...

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I think canelos ko of khan is knockout of the year, he sets it up very well with his feint to the body(after a good few rounds of doing body damage), khan falls for it and canelo puts a lot into it and lands it very well and puts khan totally out.


https://youtu.be/7Sj4TQj0F_g?t=646

I think overall that is the best of the year but there have been quite a few contenders, n'dams last week too.

Joe Smith jr is a good bet for breakout star of the year too


as for the other ones i would have to think about them :S

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I think canelos ko of khan is knockout of the year, he sets it up very well with his feint to the body(after a good few rounds of doing body damage), khan falls for it and canelo puts a lot into it and lands it very well and puts khan totally out.

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The fact that the punch was delivered on Khans jaw makes it KO of the year automatically for me

I would not give Manny the comeback fight of the year as he never went away.

I would give it to Ward for beating Kov.

Yes to give Manny comeback of the year is a strange one. Nobody seriously thought Tim Bradley or Vargas would be any threat to him. Tim is great but Manny previously proved he had his number despite the horrible decision.

Will probably go Canelo/Khan as KO of the year. Hard to top that one.

Conor Won two title belts

I think frampton definitely deserves the FOTY. He beat two good undefeated fighters. My main problem with him though is that he avoided rigo. Crawford and Loma have very strong cases though because of the way they destroyed their opponents.

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I would not give Manny the comeback fight of the year as he never went away.

I would give it to Ward for beating Kov.

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Really? I thought Kov won that fight in the ring and lost it on the cards to a bunch of crooked judges.... Kov vs. Ward gets my vote for worst decision of the year....

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Conor Won two title belts

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Conor fucking who mate ?

Event of the Year

"Go for what you want. If you dream it, you can achieveit.” -Ali


Muhammad Ali, the iconic three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on June 3, 2016 in a Phoenix-area hospital. He was 74.



Asked how he would like to be remembered, he once said:"As a man who never sold out his people . . . if that's too much, then
just a good boxer…I won't even mind if you don't mention how pretty Was."


The Eulogies were spiritual,beautiful and came from different quarters. Ali would have been proud of them.

Promoter of the Year



Eddie Hearn

Upset
of the Year


Panama’s Jezzreel Corrales stopped Takashi “KO Dynamite” Uchiyama’s and ended his six–year reign as a WBA super featherweight champion. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT745OI4GxY



Joe Smith Jr.’s blow-out TKO in the first round over Andrzej Fonfara was a very close second.

Trainer
of the Year:


Shane
McGuiganWatch Queue


McGuigan
was a promising amateur but switched his attention to training the talented ad
disciplined Carl “The Jackal” Frampton whom he has led to the IBF
super-bantamweight world title. McGuigan also recently started training high-profile
David Haye (taking over duties from Adam Booth who had been in Haye's corner
for 17 years), and George Groves (for his thus far highly successful comeback).


Anatoly Lomachenko has had a significant impact
on Ukrainian boxing that warrants mention.

More to follow

Round of the year


Round five: Chisora vs. Whyte,



Each took turns hurting the other in a round that was as explosive as any seen in recent years. Chisora stunned Whyte early with a right and then followed up by drilling a savage hook to the body. He then got Dillian back onto the ropes and launched a huge right and left hook combo. But Whyte responded with combinations of his own as the fight literally exploded with the crowd roaring its approval. At the end, Whyte pinned Chisora
on the ropes as he teed off with some withers shots. It was a spine-tingler in all respects ,and in terms of back and forth, as close to the Korean War as you could get.