Boxing Year-End Awards

Saul Alvarez would get that from Dan Rafael.

 

- Southpaw of the year
- Best shutout on the scorecards
- Midwesterner of the year

 

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In regards to Avila, I will say that he and Rick Folstad are the last remaining reasons to still read TheSweetScience. Can't believe how quickly that site went from top-rated to borderline-irrelevant.

 

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Erik Jakubowski would get the Lifetime Award for that shit. Or maybe him and Tony Menefee could share it.

 

where's waldo of the year - winky wright

did he retire or no?

 

buck smith and reggie strickland trump any and all jacubowskis

 

I think we got us a tournament then.

Strickland vs Jackubowski
Menefee vs Buck Smith

 

He was actually campaigning for a shot at Sergio Martinez, believe it or not.

 

Bad Left Hook's awards...some new categories:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2010/12/21/1890607/the-2010-bad-left-hook-boxing-awards

2010 Bad Left Hook Fighter of the Year: Sergio Martinez
Bad Left Hook Fight of the Year: Humberto Soto UD-12 Urbano Antillon
2010 Bad Left Hook Knockout of the Year: Sergio Martinez KO-2 Paul Williams
2010 Bad Left Hook Boxing Network of the Year: Showtime
2010 Bad Left Hook Boxing Commentator of the Year: Al Bernstein
2010 Bad Left Hook Prospect of the Year: James DeGale
2010 Bad Left Hook Breakthrough Performance of the Year: Dmitry Pirog TKO-5 Daniel Jacobs
2010 Bad Left Hook Upset of the Year / 2010 Bad Left Hook Comeback Fighter of the Year: Jason Litzau SD-10 Celestino Caballero
2010 Bad Left Hook U.S. Pay-Per-View of the Year: Top Rank's In Harm's Way, December 4
2010 Bad Left Hook Trainer of the Year: Freddie Roach
2010 Bad Left Hook Arturo Gatti Memorial Award: Hugo Cazares

 

hulk hogan throwing out rocky outta the ring award: randall bailey nc2 said ouali

 

i'm sure he's weighing somewhere between 190-210. he should fight roy jones at 175 if he can make weight for the hasbeen title of florida.

 

LOL.

 

Jeff Lacy.

 

More of a Year-in-Review than an awards article, but it is a top 10 list from Bryan Armen Graham at SI.com:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/bryan_armen_graham/12/21/top10.stories/

Top 10 boxing stories of 2010

1. The year of Pacquiao.
2. Mayweather battles Mosley ... and himself.
3. Stadium-size boxing makes a comeback.
4. Maravilla breaks through.
5. The brothers Klitschko reign supreme.
6. Super Six falls apart (but stays standing).
7. Tyson, Chavez, Stallone headline star-studded Hall of Fame class.
8. Valero's tragic downfall.
9. Boxing and the arts.
10. The megafight that didn't happen.

 

I like it.

 

How many Fighter Of The Year awards has Pacquiao now won?

Going from memory here, but hasn't he won the mantle 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010? I know Mayweather has won it once in the last few years (pretty sure it was 07, for his successes against De La Hoya & Hatton), but I'm sure Pacquiao won it the year before, & every year since...pretty damn dominant.

 

This proves what a legend Pacquiao is. If you think for 2 seconds that Pac man is failing a drugs test anytime soon...with so much egg to go onto so many faces, then think again.

 

I'm guessing the K-Brothers get a little more faith on the subject than Pacquiao does, though?

 

Well Wlad agreed to WADA for Povetkin and did so with far less grief than Pacquaio did.

At the same time, its not a matter of steroids, or pac or any individual fighter- I was just making the point that too many people have too much face to lose if he were to get caught now.

 

^^^I can live with that contention, & I see your point. Let me ask you, though --- if you really had to wager on Pacquiao, would you go guilty, or innocent?

 

My gut tells me to go guilty. If you look back at the big threads we had on this when the accusations and counter-accusations were flying, you will see that what annoyed me was that people were using unreliable nonsense as the basis for their belief he was guilty.

They wanted to believe he was guilty, and allowed their desire to be reinforced by rubbish from the Mayweathers, rubbish from Ellerbee, rubbish from Schaefer and De La Hoya, rubbish about appearances and head size and all manner of pseudo-sciences.

What makes me think Pac is on gear?

Two words: Fred Roach.

 

Fair play.

 

No big deal Ramonza.

My education tells me that in any criminal endeavour, look for who has the most to lose, the most to gain, look at who might be most likely to justify to themselves the course of action in question.

There is only one thing more desperate than a sick man about to die and that's a sick man who is getting sicker and who still has to live.

Now, why would Fred Roach, good old face-first-Freddie, justify such a thing to himself.

Well.....he lived an honest existence, face-first, brave, and got......zippidy-do-da to show for it.

Time comes in a mans existence when his body is failing and his prime is over and his bank account is empty for that man to make some pretty hard but simple decisions.

I don't know how culpable Pac is. But this bolloxology in front of the cameras with Pac eating 3 and 4 meals, I dont buy it.

I see motive and I see necessity and I see a modern science that makes it possible.

 

Fair point.

 

One of my own disappointments of the year...the lame Tyson-Seldon/Tupac shooting documentary "One Night in Vegas" that was part of ESPN's 30 for 30.

The idea for the documentary was great, the actual footage that was used was great....most of the interviews, the comic book approach, and the poken-word segments were not.