Fighter of the year?

what on Earth for???

 

Baker.

 

:hammert:

 

Hopkins!

 

Jon Jones

 

Ward

Donaire and Peterson are honorable mentions

 

Don't you need to get a KO to be fighter of the year?

 

Didn't Wlad win,............ the BIGGEST HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT IN YEARS!!! :scratcher:

:crafty:

 

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Let me thump my chest ::

When was Ward's last KO? World loves a puncher!!!!:Chainsaw:

 

No Brainer...

The Super 6 has Been Boxing's Most Significant "Event" Since Inception...Andre Ward Won the Super 6 in 2011 & is Therefore 2011's "Fighter of the Year"....



REED:cheer:

 

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You don't get "FOTY" for winning something that took two years to complete. You get FOTY for what you did in any calendar year.

Ward beat Froch and Arthur Abraham in the pertinent calendar year. Kessler took Frochs "O" in the Calendar year of 2010 in what was a short-list contender for Fight-OTY and that didn't make him Fighter-OTY for 2010. And you can't get FOTY for 2011 by beating Kessler in 2010.

FOTY is Miguel Cotto. If people want to invest so much time in "backgrounds" and and "ongoing enterprises" then this is surely it. Super 6 was a chameleon of a competition. Cotto vs Margarito was a comparative saga.

Our year would have collectively been so much dried dogshit if Cotto didn't have the guts to face up to and beat Margarito. If he had lost that fight I would have written a lot of the year off.

I would say:

Cotto- The defeat of Margarito and all that this entailed. The very picture of dignity during the "Faceoff".

Ward- Winning Super 6, 2nd man to beat Froch, 20th man to beat Abraham. Big try.

Wlad- Lose to Haye and his entire career goes down the pisser, big ask, he got it right on the night. Hint of the Cottos the way he eradicated the stench of Haye. Unified HVY titles, 3/4.


Nonito Donaire Stoppage of Montiel might just be the KO of the year, not his fault Narvaez showed up to spoil.

Lamont Peterson- Just misses out on being much further up the list- if his gutsy draw with Ortiz happens a month later, he's got the Khan and Cayo wins and the Ortiz draw in the same 12 months. Upset of Khan gets him a mention.

Guys like Viloria, Cleverly, etc get hon mentions.

 

Ward



REED:hammert:

 

Of course not.

 

:shit:

 

For having one complete fight this year? Against a guy that Froch beat?

 

I give the award to Roy Jones Jr.

Came back after a controversial KO loss to win a unanimous decision against the highly impressive Max Alexander.

 

Good shout, Roy should at least get comeback of the year.

 

Do you guys remember when that retard Kenneth Bouhairie said "Roy isn't shot, he's just changed his style?" ::

 

:: I remember. Wasn't he picking Roy in the Tarver rubbermatch?

 

And against Calzaghe ::

 

:laughing:

Who's Kenneth Bouhaire?

 

Any fucking time pal. Anytime.

 

Fuck off. Yes, lets score points for being dignified during a Faceoff. Idiot.

 

Did I say that? I gave a background for each fighter and then the fights themselves. Donaire shouldn't get Fighter of the Year for having KO of the year, but the fact that it was KO of the Year in the style he did it, vs the guy he did it against, counts for a lot.

And as if the Cotto vs Margarito thing was just any old other fight.

Cotto was finished, finished if he failed to turn the trick, massive pressure, wife and kids ringside, Hero if he wins, Zero if he loses, he never backed down to that shit-eater right from the time of the pre-fight hype, he stuck to his game plan, boxed beautiful and probably won every round bar 2 very close ones. Reminded me a bit of Norris vs Brown II- he did everything right on the night and was Arguello-esque in his grace and his poise and demeanour. Its called "Fighter of the Year". Not "Guy who just had the single best wins this year". They count too, of course, but my favourite fighter this year was Cotto. On demeanour, on attitude, on performance, on competition, all in. No set points-scoring, just consideration.

Who was this years best fighter? I'm saying Cotto. I'm saying Ward second and Wlad third.

Cotto was the business right throughout, right up to the very end where he didn't even celebrate profusely, he just stood still and took it all in. None of this whupping and hollering.

Fucking hell, I really like boxing.

 

He used to post here as IMDAZED.

 

Was Denzel Washington at the Ward vs Froch fight?

 

Yes. You said it in plain English. All that stuff is nice, but Froch is a much better fighter than Margarito in 2011.

 

Cotto :bears:

 

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