End of year awards 2019

[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

[Alpha]

2019 Awards:

Fighter: Josh Taylor

Fight of 2019: Inoue vs Donaire

Upset of 2019: Ruiz vs Joshua 1

Comeback of 2019: Jean Pascal

Prospect of 2019: Vergil Ortiz

KO: Wilder vs Ortiz 2

Round: Ruiz vs Joshua 1 RD3

[Fatboxingfan]

Referee of 2019 Award: Michael Griffin

[powerpuncher]

2019 Awards:

Fighter: Josh Taylor

Fight of 2019: Inoue vs Donaire

Upset of 2019: Ruiz vs Joshua 1

Comeback of 2019: Jean Pascal

Prospect of 2019: Teofimo Lopez

KO: Wilder vs Ortiz 2

Round: Ruiz vs Joshua 1 RD3

I’ll have to think about this one. But I don’t think that Lopez can be considered a prospect since he won a belt. I think he is past the prospect stage.