Sports Illustrated: Pacquiao Boxer of the Year
SI has picked Pacquiao as its Boxer of the year over Hopkins, Margarito, and Calzaghe (who were also under consideration).
Other awards handed out:
Best Fight - Cotto vs. Margarito
Best KO - Marquez vs. Casamayor
Best Round - Holt-Torres, II, Rd. 1
Top Prospect - Victor Ortiz
Biggest Upset - Hopkins vs. Pavlik
Comeback - Vitali Klitschko
Congrats to Pacman. I also think Pac-Hoya should go as biggest upset.
Cupey
Yeah, i'm not even sure what the candidates were for each category. The list seems 'ok' to me at a glance but i figured Hopkins-Pavlik wasn't the upset of the year. I'm just trying to remember if there was a bigger one than Pac-Oscar.Originally Posted by cupey alto
Some quick contenders off the top of my head:
Quintana-Williams
Vera-Lee
Darchinyan-Mijares
Bradley-Witter
Mora-Forrest
Not sure any of those were bigger than Pacquiao-DLH...but there's some others.
"And a smart thing he's doing, he spit out his mouthpiece just like Diego Corrales" Mora
“Boxing is made up of weight classes,” De La Hoya criticized. “Stick to your weight classes.”
“Whitaker was so slick and to me, he felt like he was in a whole different class,” De La Hoya said. “He was a southpaw and he had all these tricky moves and everything. But he didn’t mind trading with you and Mayweather didn’t want to do that.”
I thought of Quintana Williams but not sure why i forgot about Darhinyan-Mijares.
Yeah i'd say Pac-ODLH should have received upset of the year.
Marquez vs. Vasquez III was this year.
....and Marquez/Casamayor wasn´t KO of the year, cause I can´t even remember that the fuckin fight ended in a KO.
KO of the year could very well be Mosley vs. Mayorga.
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I missed that. Definetly Marquez-Casa wasn't KO of the year. It was very surprising the fight didn't last the distance but it certainly wasn't KO of the year.Marquez vs. Vasquez III was this year.
....and Marquez/Casamayor wasn´t KO of the year, cause I can´t even remember that the fuckin fight ended in a KO.
KO of the year could very well be Mosley vs. Mayorga.
obviously
"A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be."- Roderick Haig-Brown
Yep, and if any Casamayor fight should be KO of the year it's his stoppage of Katsidis.Marquez vs. Vasquez III was this year.
....and Marquez/Casamayor wasn´t KO of the year, cause I can´t even remember that the fuckin fight ended in a KO.
KO of the year could very well be Mosley vs. Mayorga.
As much as I'd like to say Cotto/Margarito was FOTY because I was there, Vazquez/Marquez was a better fight.
That Mtagwa fight was better than it as well.
So was Adamek/Cunningham, arguably.
Cotto-Margarito was DRAMATIC, but NOT F.O.Y. Material...
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Pacquiao should indeed be boxer of the year, but Marge - Cotto isn't even close to being FOTY.
It was an impressive and interesting result, but the fight was pretty boring really.
wald pussy
What?
Yeah, if you take away the crowd and and the atmosphere and put it on Friday Night Fights in front of a few hundred fans it wouldn't be the seen the same way, but it's not like this was Trinidad-Mayorga, which got blown way out of proportion in the FOTY discussion in the immediate aftermath.
"And a smart thing he's doing, he spit out his mouthpiece just like Diego Corrales" Mora
“Boxing is made up of weight classes,” De La Hoya criticized. “Stick to your weight classes.”
“Whitaker was so slick and to me, he felt like he was in a whole different class,” De La Hoya said. “He was a southpaw and he had all these tricky moves and everything. But he didn’t mind trading with you and Mayweather didn’t want to do that.”
I was disappointed in the fight, big time.
Not just because Cotto lost (although I was rooting hard for him to beat Marge, he's never been one of my absolute favourite fighters, nowhere near people like Morales and Pacman).
More because I was expecting much more of an action fight. The fight was strange. It didn't have much action, or even much drama.
The first few rounds were cotto outclassing Marge, then Marge just slowly started to grind him down, but along the way there was never any furious action (a la Morales/Barrera or Vazquez/Marquez etc) - or even much drama. It was a gradual turning of the tide, and the only time one of them copped a big beating was Cotto in round 7. Apart from that, it was simply not very fun to watch, or exciting.
A pretty far cry from fights like Vazquez/Marquez and other FOTY candidates in recent years.
It was no more of an exciting fight than say... Hatton - Tszyu.
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