End of year awards 2019

[Spicoli]

Meteoric rise up and burn down fighter of year...Dogboe
Poor mans war...glowaki v Martin
Comeback...Fury. Maybe Donaire
Upset...Harrison and Charlo in every meaning of the word. Maybe HBO going out so lame.
Boxer...Usyk really
Award for just spinning your wheels to call yourself a driver 2018...Gervonta Davis, Jarrell Miller, Saunders or Khan.

[KickMuck]

Copied and pasted from ring magazine.

Nominees are:

FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Canelo Alvarez
Tyson Fury
Naoya Inoue
Vasiliy Lomachenko
Aleksandr Usyk



FIGHT OF THE YEAR
Alex Saucedo-Lenny Zappavigna
Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez 2
Jarrett Hurd-Erislandy Lara
Murat Gassiev-Yuniel Dorticos
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai-Juan Francisco Estrada



KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR
Aleksandr Usyk TKO 8 Tony Bellew
Dillian Whyte KO 6 Lucas Browne
Jermall Charlo KO 2 Hugo Centeno
Naoya Inoue KO 1 Juan Carlos Payano
Teofimo Lopez KO 1 Mason Menard



TRAINER OF THE YEAR
Ben Davison
Robert Garcia
Shingo Inoue
Anatoly Lomachenko
Eddy Reynoso



UPSET OF THE YEAR
Cristopher Rosales TKO 9 Daigo Higa
Josh Warrington SD 12 Lee Selby
Maurice Hooker SD 12 Terry Flanagan
Eleider Alvarez KO 7 Sergey Kovalev
Rob Brant UD 12 Ryota Murata




COMEBACK OF THE YEAR
Nonito Donaire
Tyson Fury
Kazuto Ioka
Manny Pacquiao
Cristofer Rosales



EVENT OF THE YEAR
Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin 2
DAZN launch
HBO leaves boxing
World Boxing Super Series
Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder



PROSPECT OF THE YEAR
Murodjon Akhmadaliev
Joshua Buatsi
Jaron Ennis
Filip Hrgovic
Teofimo Lopez



ROUND OF THE YEAR
Alex Saucedo vs. Leonardo Zappavigna (Round 4)
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs. Juan Francisco Estrada (Round 12)
Murat Gassiev vs. Yunier Dorticos (Round 12)
Sho Kimura vs. Kosei Tanaka (Round 2)
Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder (Round 12)



MOST INSPIRATIONAL
Cecilia Braekhus (first Ring pound-for-pound female champ)
Don Chargin (boxing maven who was a mentor to many)
Tyson Fury (mental health awareness)
Daniel Franco (survived near-fatal head injury and now advocates on behalf of boxer safety)
Brendan Ingle (pioneering British boxing trainer who passed away in 201.

Winners as well as our next Fighter of the Year cover star will be revealed soon . . .

[Gandalf]

Poster of the year is Brockton Blockbust. KO of the year is all the Mods who have lied to cover their false tracks. Comeback of the year is obviously Beanz.

[Gandalf]

In boxing terms I don't see the need for awards. It ends up like the Brit awards where it is any big selling album and you randomly pick one. There are good and bad fights. Interesting knockouts and dodgy decisions. There are comebacks on all kinds of scale. It's boxing and as long as there are good fights that is all that matters. Another is that mythical P4P thing. It doesn't mean anything. At any one time you have a number of fighters across a range of divisions who are good. Doesn't matter really who the best might be as you will never know.

Also in terms of KO of the year it can get a bit sick like with Hatton/Pac or even with Stevenson recently. It is shocking and exciting but let's not forget that they put their lives and health on the line to do it. You give a prize to someone for getting brain damage and that is kind of dark.

As 2018 draws to a close James Toney is healthy and there is a new year with more fights to look forward to. That's enough for me. I just hope we do not see too much damage like with Stevenson.

Brock for comeback of the year.

[ykdadamaja]

Poster of the year is Brockton Blockbust. KO of the year is all the Mods who have lied to cover their false tracks. Comeback of the year is obviously Beanz.

I miss Brock. A shame I don't know what happened to him? Reminds me of another friend that went missing from this board back in 2005- The GrimReefer. The sheep-shagging, son of a gun he was!

[Memphis]

Donaire comeback of the year? On paper I spose he came back from a loss and 'won' a World title. But he was getting soundly out boxed until Burnett went lame, Nonaire had very little influence on the fight to that point. No offence to Donaire but c'mon.

I feel the same about Fury. Yes technically he came back and had some success, but his hiatus from boxing was entirely self inflicted. To add to matters he retained his lineal title (to sell a fight) so can we call it a come back at all? Don't get me started on the mental health side of things.

They'll be picking up awards left right and center for sure. Doesn't sit right with me though.

[powerpuncher]

Poster of the year is Brockton Blockbust. KO of the year is all the Mods who have lied to cover their false tracks. Comeback of the year is obviously Beanz.

I miss Brock. A shame I don't know what happened to him? Reminds me of another friend that went missing from this board back in 2005- The GrimReefer. The sheep-shagging, son of a gun he was!

Did Brock get banned?

[Master]

FIGHTER OF THE YEAR
Aleksandr Usyk



FIGHT OF THE YEAR
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai-Juan Francisco Estrada

KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR
Naoya Inoue KO 1 Juan Carlos Payano

UPSET OF THE YEAR
Eleider Alvarez KO 7 Sergey Kovalev

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR
Tyson Fury

EVENT OF THE YEAR
World Boxing Super Series

PROSPECT OF THE YEAR
Joshua Buatsi

ROUND OF THE YEAR
Alex Saucedo vs. Leonardo Zappavigna (Round 4)

MOST INSPIRATIONAL
Brendan Ingle

[Alpha]

Fighter: Usyk

Fight of 2018: Tanaka vs Kimura

Upset of 2018: Rosales/Higa

Comeback of 2018: Ioka

Prospect of 2018: Teofimo Lopez

KO: Inoue/ Payano

Round: Wilder/Fury RD12