FOTY Candidates?

[ICB]

id throw berto collazo in the mix

Always thought that was 2008 but i just checked it up, and your right good call.

[LEGION]

id throw berto collazo in the mix

Always thought that was 2008 but i just checked it up, and your right good call.

I thought it was 08' as well. Seems like forever ago for some reason lol.

[markb018]

id throw berto collazo in the mix

Always thought that was 2008 but i just checked it up, and your right good call.

I thought it was 08' as well. Seems like forever ago for some reason lol.

I just remember it starting off 09 and thought ok now thats how you start off a new year of boxing

[LEGION]

Always thought that was 2008 but i just checked it up, and your right good call.

I thought it was 08' as well. Seems like forever ago for some reason lol.

I just remember it starting off 09 and thought ok now thats how you start off a new year of boxing

Yeah I remember thinking "this is going to be another great year" after that fight now I have though about it. Good call man That very well may be the FOTY.

[ICB]

I thought it was 08' as well. Seems like forever ago for some reason lol.

I just remember it starting off 09 and thought ok now thats how you start off a new year of boxing

Yeah I remember thinking "this is going to be another great year" after that fight now I have though about it. Good call man That very well may be the FOTY.

Nah not FOTY Juan Diaz/JMM is a better fight IMO, but Victor Ortiz vs Marco Rene Maidana round 1 maybe the ROTY at this moment.

[LEGION]

I just remember it starting off 09 and thought ok now thats how you start off a new year of boxing

Yeah I remember thinking "this is going to be another great year" after that fight now I have though about it. Good call man That very well may be the FOTY.

Nah not FOTY Juan Diaz/JMM is a better fight IMO, but Victor Ortiz vs Marco Rene Maidana round 1 maybe the ROTY at this moment.

Yeah it's tough. Both were great though but JMM gettting bullied around and then doing a stun gun on Diaz was great stuff. Still Collazo/Berto was pure entertainment almost every round. Agree about ROTY with Maidana/Ortiz. Shame that fight didn't go the distance; not that it would have anyways

[ICB]

Yeah I remember thinking "this is going to be another great year" after that fight now I have though about it. Good call man That very well may be the FOTY.

Nah not FOTY Juan Diaz/JMM is a better fight IMO, but Victor Ortiz vs Marco Rene Maidana round 1 maybe the ROTY at this moment.

Yeah it's tough. Both were great though but JMM gettting bullied around and then doing a stun gun on Diaz was great stuff. Still Collazo/Berto was pure entertainment almost every round. Agree about ROTY with Maidana/Ortiz. Shame that fight didn't go the distance; not that it would have anyways

The last few rounds in the Andre Berto/Luis Collazo fight were quality. The 11th round in that fight is also a candiate for ROTY, so is the 1st round.

[CFH]

Marquez - Diaz by a mile for me. I don't understand why Cotto-Clottey is getting some votes, it was an ok fight but IMO it was nowhere near FOTY material.

[ElTerribleMorales]

Marquez - Diaz by a mile for me. I don't understand why Cotto-Clottey is getting some votes, it was an ok fight but IMO it was nowhere near FOTY material.

same here, i thought it was a really good fight, but IMO didn't reach the level i was hoping and probably mainly due to the cut

[Spicoli]

Slept on this one but Luis carlos Abregu vs. Irving Garcia aired by showtime in April was a tough shootout.Stoppage a bit iffy but both dropped and stunned bad over 4 rounds

[SweetPea]

Marquez - Diaz by a mile for me.

Yep.

There is no such thing as a FOTY competition for 2009 at the moment. It's Marquez-Diaz in a landslide.

[holmcall]

Torres vs. Pinzon in Colombian shoot out!!
Dunn vs. Mercado-oh my!!

[holmcall]

In 2005, an unbeaten kid from Magangua with heavy hands and fighting out of Barranquilla took a dangerous fight on short notice. His name was Ricardo "Mochuelo" Torres and he traveled to New Jersey to meet WBO light welterweight super champion Miguel Cotto. Not knowing who he was or how many rounds he could stay in front of the Puerto Rican idol, Larry Merchant wondered: "Who knows what we have here." Merchant got his answer 1:99 seconds into the first round, when Torres hurt Cotto with a jolting left hook. Twenty-four seconds into the second and another rattling left hook made it crystal clear: "This guy has a tremendous punching power!" Eventually, Cotto survived the surprise life-and-death battle, but that fight once again put Colombian fighters on the boxing landscape--this time as bombers and bangers.

After winning WBO light welterweight title against tough Mike Arnaoutis, Torres defended it twice (once against Kendall Holt in Barranquilla) before losing it to Holt a year later in Las Vegas. Many observers thought Holt had been the victim of a punishing head butt that finished him at the 1:01 mark of the first round after he decked Holt twice and had him ready to go. Then, 10 months later, he faced countryman Raul Pinzon, 16-2(15) coming in, and this one surprisingly turned out to be a war of epic proportions (and the fact it was fought under the radar in Barranquilla made it all the more intriguing). As James Slater describes it in a May 12, 2009 piece:

Knocked down in the opening round, the fourth round and in the seventh round, Torres was behind on all three official cards going into the 10th and last round. Told by his corner he needed to score a KO to save the day, the fighter who has never been short on guts and courage did just that. Downing a tired Pinzon three times in an amazing final round, Torres pulled out a comeback win courtesy of a stoppage at 2 minutes and nine-seconds of the 10th round.

Dramatic and admirable Torres' win was, but this much of a handful was not what he needed in such a fight. Was the ten month layoff at least partly to blame? Was welterweight too high a weight for Torres to box at? Did Torres underestimate Pinzon? Or, least appealing of all, is the former WBO champ shot or close to it? We will find out in the coming months, as there seems little to no chance the Barranquilla native will retire. 29-year-old Torres is now 33-2(29), 29-year-old Pinzon - who may have made a real name for himself - is now 16-3(15).

Anyone who was lucky enough to have seen this one will never forget it, particularly the backward somersaults that Pinzon took when he got blasted in the tenth and final stanza. In any normal year, it would be a fight-of-the-year winner, but this is not a normal year because this is the year when Irishman Bernard Dunne stopped Ricardo "Maestrito" Cordoba in even more dramatic fashion in March. Thus, Torres-Pinzon probably will be relegated to mere closet classic status, but what a closet classic it was.

[Violent Demise]

Bernard Dunne-Ricardo Cordoba was a pretty good fight