Contenders for "Fighter of the Year" honors...

As of this moment, who is your pick for Fighter of the Year honors?

And who (if anyone) do you think could possibly snatch that award away with one of the big fights coming up in the next three months?

 

If the year ended right now it would be Pavlik for sure.

However i think the winner of Mayweather-Hatton will be the choice. (espeically if they win in impressive fashion)

 

As of now, I think Kelly Pavlik deserves the award. Mayweather would be a close second choice IMO if he beats Hatton, and behind him would be Cotto if he beats Mosley.

 

What about Hatton if he beat Floyd? Unseating the #1 P4P guy would surely have to give him the honor. (not that i think it will happen)

 

Good point.

Hatton will have beaten JL Castillo by impressive KO, and then upset Mayweather. Couldn't argue with that.

 

Field-Marshall Pavlik gets my vote.

 

Then don't. :warning:

 

Right now Pavlik would be the favorite.

Kessler would be a serious candidate if he beats Calzaghe.

If Hatton beats Mayweather w/o controversy, then he's pretty much a lock.

If Mayweather beats Hatton, then I don't know. Even if he dominates, I'd still be reluctant to give him the honor over Pavlik.

Those favoring Pavlik will bring up how Mayweather looked unimpressive in beating a part-time fighter in Oscar and Hatton moving up in weight, and the fact that Pavlik impressively stopped the legit champ and a top contender.

Those favoring Mayweather will bring up Oscar being a bigger guy and Taylor being such a vulnerable and flawed guy who was fortunate to be the champ due to some questionable scorecards in the past.

 

Winner of Mayweather-Hatton its a lock

 

If they win without controversy i agree.

 

Pavlik is the leading candidate for FOTY and by quite a bit.

With Floyd-Hatton, I'd say a Hatton win would greater disrupt things than a Floyd win. Floyd would have to damn near pitch a shutout in order to go beyond expectations of the fight, whereas all Hatton has to do is merely win.

If the Calzaghe-Kessler winner wins in dominant fashion (as in, the way Joe beat up Jeff Lacy), then he warrants consideration, but perhaps not enough to upend Pavlik.

 

I think Mayweather will pitch a shutout and win the award.
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I will say this... if Floyd-Hatton does anywhere near the projected PPV numbers (which seem to be anywhere from 600,000 - 1,000,000) and Floyd wins, there's almost no way he won't win the award. He'll have won the two biggest/most viewed fights of the year. If Pavlik's win over Taylor carries extra weight due to its significance, then so too will Floyd's wins in PPVs totalling over $150 million in sales (and another $30 million at the gate).

 

Pavlik beat the legit #1 contender and the undisputed undefeated MW champion in his last two fights. I don't care if Floyd's fights were viewed by more people, they just aren't as important.

 

I don't disagree - my personal pick is Pavlik right now, and that it's gonna take something major to change my mind. I'm just saying how the "experts" will view things come year end. With Floyd involved in the two biggest fights of the year, naming him the top fighter sells more magazines and generates more web hits.

Last year, the knock was that he wasn't popular enough to forgive his dull performance over Baldomir, whereas Pac generated excitement every time he fought (though I'm in the minority in not being particularly impressed w/ the Larios fight, and not just it going the distance). That same claim can't hold true this year. Yes, you can still claim that Floyd is a safety-first pot-shotter. But winning what the general public will consider to be the two biggest fights of the year will carry a lot of weight to those whose businesses are subscription-driven.

 

Huh?

 

ricky hatton is a better fighter than jermain taylor. not even close.

 

Well, one thing's for sure, if Cotto beats Shane Mosely, he will have far surpassed Fraud's stinking split decision over Shane's bitch, the full-time promoter. :doh: But, Cotto did fight Judah, and that equates to absolutely nuthin', it perhaps even scores negatively against him,...so I'd consider it a dead-lock if Cotto wins a split decision in a sprint-fest over Mosely, but Cotto should get fighter of the year if he get's a majority decision in a stinking sprint fest over Mosely, because we all know Fraud's going for his second straight sprint against Hatton, and seeing as Shane is the superior denominator, then Cotto it is, IF he beats Shane,..which he wont.

 

I think If floyd beats Hatton he sure be a lock. But Just like last year they won't give it to him because he isn't exciting enough.:dunno:


Pacquiao is facing a guy coming of a loss who he already beat. Just give it to him again.:dunno: ::

 

:notallthere: WTF!!!,...ah?..how about they didn't give it to him because he fought the journeyman's bitch and then the journeyman?. If Scrubdomir is a crucial component to end of year honours, then it's Vernon Forrest all the way...

 

Long story short on Pavlik. Here's the list of the past 20 winners of Fighter of the Year:

1987 - Evander Holyfield
1988 - Mike Tyson
1989 - Pernell Whitaker
1990 - Julio César Chávez
1991 - James Toney
1992 - Riddick Bowe
1993 - Michael Carbajal
1994 - Roy Jones Jr.
1995 - Oscar de la Hoya
1996 - Evander Holyfield
1997 - Evander Holyfield
1998 - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
1999 - Paulie Ayala
2000 - Félix Trinidad
2001 - Bernard Hopkins
2002 - Vernon Forrest
2003 - James Toney
2004 - Glen Johnson
2005 - Ricky Hatton
2006 - Manny Pacquiao

Now how many of those fighters hadn't been on a pay-per-view?

 

(In reverse order)

Glen Johnson
Vernon Forrest
Floyd Mayweather

and Hatton's lone PPV of 2005 was a low-rent afternoon special, hardly a superfight. But for the sake of strictly answering the question, 3 in the last nine years. One every three years since 1998.

The last one was 3 years ago. Which means Pavlik is all the more due.

Not sure where you were going with that exercise

 

Well, think about it this way. Don't you think that Golden Boy, which owns Ring magazine, would favor the guy who helped them make $80 million? I mean, that's enough to buy Ring magazine ten times over.

 

"Like I said before" (fitting considering who we're discussing) it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see Floyd wind up with top honors - IF he wins AND the Hatton PPV is a success. A very big IF, but if Floyd-Hatton does 1 million PPV buys, Floyd will be the only non-heavyweight ever to register two PPV events with 1 million or more buys in the same year. With that in mind, and going 2-0 in the fights, one against a fellow P4P contender, it's going to be impossible for most publications to resist naming him the top dog.

My pick is Pavlik. Even though I picked him to win every bout he was in this year, the fact is that he was underdog in two of them, and won all three by knockout, and all three being highly entertaining througout. What's more, he was also the first to stop all three, two of which were in the heart of their prime (even if Miranda was limited to begin with).

I don't agree with Floyd winning the honors (again, if/when he beats Hatton), but again, it wouldn't shock me in the least to see it happen.

 

:nono:

 

Floyd-Hatton Winner (as Loooooooong as the Win is IMPRESSIVE), then Pavlik...



REED

 

What do you mean huh? Did you not see Pavlik destroy Miranda? If Miranda wasn't the most clear cut #1 contender then who was?

 

Abraham, or Winky.

 

Winky had moved up to fight Hopkins, Abraham is hiding and fighting nobody.

 

Eliminating the common opponent Eastman and each other.

Only Jantuah, Ikeke, Gardner, Demers, Velazco and Gevor.

That´s nothing in comparison to Green and Gibbs.