Was 2023 a great year for boxing?

Just a few more weeks before the end of the year. Would you say this year was great for boxing? I'd say it was. Sure there were some blunders like Fury vs Ngannou, Shakur vs Santos, and the countless Youtuber fights (Paul bros, KSI) but overall this year we've seen some of the fights that fans have been wanting and actually living up to the expectations.

Terence Crawford vs Errol Spence Jr
Naoya Inoue vs Stephen Fulton
Gervonta Davis vs Ryan Garcia
Teofimo Lopez vs Josh Taylor
Devin Haney vs Vasyl Lomachenko
David Benavidez vs Caleb Plant & Demetrius Andrade
Leigh Wood vs Mauricio Lara & Josh Warrington
Jose Ramirez vs Richard Commey
Brandon Figueroa vs Mark Magsayo
Joe Joyce vs Zhilei Zhang
Emmanuel Navarrete vs Oscar Valdez
Subriel Matias vs Jeremias Ponce & Shohjahon Ergashev

And we still have Haney vs Prograis, Bam Rodriguez vs Sunny Edwards, and Inoue vs Marlon Tapales to look forward to.

 

It was a great year through July...



Paramount and Fury ruined it.

 

none of them fights listed were great, competitive outcomes that warrant FOTY consideration. some big (money) matchups got made, but none resulted in anything classic. good year that had more promise going into the fights than it delivered afterward.

 

Bud, Inoue, and Fimo (in that order) had the three best performances of the year.

 

all 3 in one sided fights. none of the shit listed here warrants fight of the year merit

 

Nah, no fights really stick out this year for FOTY.

 

foster vs hernandez was definitely round of the year, if not the best fight recently.

 

Idk about a great year, but even with the issues from Fury vs Ngannou and Showtime pulling out of boxing, it's been one of the better years in a while.

 

It wouldn't get any worse than 2022.

 

If You're REALLY Complaining About 2023, "Y'all Musta 4-Got" the SHITShow 2022 Was...




REED

 

2023 is like The Dark Knight Rises.

Brilliant over the first half. Fell apart near the end.

 

Fury arguably losing to fucking Francis Ngannou make it a pretty bad year for boxing. In terms of fight getting made, it was a great year, but the results in the ring was pretty ho-hum

 

Despite some of the bigger notable fights being a bit one sided that doesn't take away from the number of very good/great fights that took place and helped make up for 2022's lackluster year. There's at least a good number of FOTY contenders, some fights with astonishing comebacks.

Artur Beterbiev vs Anthony Yarde
Leigh Wood vs Mauricio Lara 1
Leigh Wood vs Josh Warrington
Luis Nery vs Azat Hovhannisyan
Subriel Matias vs Jeremías Ponce
Brandun Lee vs Pedro Campa
Emmanuel Navarrete vs Liam Wilson
Joe Cordina vs Shavkat Rakhimov
Devin Haney vs Vasyl Lomachenko
Jaime Munguia vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko
O'Shaquie Dominique Foster vs Eduardo Hernández
Robeisy Ramirez vs Rafael Espinoza