~Saddos 2009 Boxing Awards~

[amat]

Here are the categories:
1. Fighter of the year: Manny Pacquiao I can't wait for anyone to vote different
2. Fight of the year: This is going to be hard for me. Mtgawa-Lopez a real sleeper pick but I'm not making a decision yet. Diaz-Marquez
3. Round of the year: Bradley/Peterson round 3
4. Knockout of the year: Margarito-Mosley. The last punch that dropped him was the best, and a very good way to start the year off.
5. Upset of the year: Miguel Acosta KO9 Urbano Antillon. That was stunning to me. It's not that I'm surprised that Antillon was beat, I just didn't think it would be like that and definitely not by the hands of Acosta.
6. Comeback fighter of the year:
7. Event of the year : If Pacquiao-Mayweather is made official before the end of the year, that's it. Otherwise I'd say it was the formation of the Super 6. Tomasz Adamek fighting Bobby Gunn in New Jersey was great aswell.
8. Worst fight of the year: This is going to require some thinking. First one that jumped to my mind was Green-Sims.
9. Prospect of the year: I'd love to say Rico Ramos, who I'm a big fan of, but I think it has to be Erislandy Lara. Guillermo Rigondeaux and Korobov canidates too.
10. Robbery of the year: Carl Froch SD Andre Dirrell. Stickin to my guns, U-S-A.

[ICB]

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. JMM vs Juan Diaz although JML vs Rogers Mtagwa and Paul Williams vs Sergio Martinez were cracking fights aswell.
3. Marcos Rene Maidana vs Victor Ortiz Round 1
4. Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton
5. Juan Carlos Salgado vs Jorge Linares
6. The Super Six
7. Miguel Cotto vs Manny Pacquiao
8.
9. Andre Ward
10. Joan Guzman vs Ali Funeka nothing can beat that surely

The rest need some thinking.

[TheBranMan]

Good. Sydney, Australia. No plane ticket required here.
These are mine (thus far):

1. Fighter of the year- Timothy Bradley. I won't vote Pac while he's refusing more conclusive blood testing (I previously had him as my FOTY). While I would like to believe he's done everything clean, I have always wondered about PEDs and this saga just reinforces my worries. Back on topic, Bradley has proven he belongs in the elite few.

2. Fight of the year- Diaz vs Marquez. Very exciting fight, at a very high level of the sport.

3. Round of the year- Round 1, Victor Ortiz vs Marcos Maidana. Both fighters down. Both are ferocious punchers. Need I say more?

4. Knockout of the year- Marquez knocks out Diaz. Great uppercut and great ending to a great fight.

5. Upset of the year- Antonio Margarito vs Shane Mosley. Dominating performance by Shane. Margacheato just couldn't get off.

6. Comeback fighter of the year - Floyd Mayweather. Assuming this counts. He did come... back... and in dominating form.

7. Event of the year - Plaster found in Margarito's hand wraps. This ended his cheating-spree (one assumes) and let the sport progress (albeit, maybe a little late for Cotto).

8. Worst fight of the year - Timothy Bradley vs Nate Campbell. Don't only end the fight early and take away Bradley's probable KO, change his win to a NC because of Don King's influence.

9. Prospect of the year - Anthony Peterson. A great prospect, who seems to have the similar tools to his brother.

10. Robbery of the year- Kermit Cintron vs Sergio Martinez. Poor Martinez was robbed twice in this fight.

[ICB]

Carl Froch vs Andre Dirrell as robbery of the year ? come on fellas i admit i thought Andre Dirrell won, but only by 2 rounds at the most, it was mostly an ugly fight and Andre Dirrell should of pressed more, especially when he had Carl Froch gone at one point in the later rounds.

Joan Guzman vs Ali Funeka is a pure robbery, it was no worse than 8-4 for Ali Funeka, and Mike Arnaoutis vs Tim Coleman deserves a mention aswell.

[Dizaster]

Awesome! Considering i'm such a bum I havn't been able to fork out the dough to make the previous awards.. But shit yeah, this year just one hour away i'll be there!

Nice choice of Venue Mick..

I'll be back here with my votes after a think

[Howlin Mad Missy]

what happened to GAY of the year, Mod of the year? etc.

[TheBranMan]

Carl Froch vs Andre Dirrell as robbery of the year ? come on fellas i admit i thought Andre Dirrell won, but only by 2 rounds at the most, it was mostly an ugly fight and Andre Dirrell should of pressed more, especially when he had Carl Froch gone at one point in the later rounds.

Joan Guzman vs Ali Funeka is a pure robbery, it was no worse than 8-4 for Ali Funeka, and Mike Arnaoutis vs Tim Coleman deserves a mention aswell.

When I voted for Froch vs Dirrell as Robbery of the Year, it wasn't that it was the fight with the score disparities farthest from the truth, there were OBVIOUSLY much worse robberies in that respect. It was, however, at a very high level of the sport. It was also in round 1 of the Super Six, a very prestigious tournament; thus it sets the bar low for judging in the remainder of the tournament. IMO, Dirrell obviously won that fight. I don't have any idea how Froch fans can defend that win.
I thought we were just voting here. Not having to defend every one of our nominations
EDIT: While I stand by the fact that the Dirrell/Froch fight was an absolute robbery, due to the reminder of Martinez/Cintron (where Martinez was actually robbed TWICE in that fight), I'll have to go with that.