Why is everyone calling Williams-Martinez the fight of the year?

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't see this as a fight of the year contender. It was a real solid, even a great fight, but definitely nothing too special. One guy was calling it Ward-Gatti on a higher skill level! I think that was Lou DiBella, so that's understandable I guess. But seriously, what about this fight had you jumping out of your seat and shouting? Round 4 was awesome, and there were a few others with good two-way action, but it wasn't as amazing as people are making it out to sound. I was at a party watching it and it wasn't getting that much reaction from the people there. Just for comparison's sake, I thought Agbeko-Perez was a better fight than this. I thought Marquez-Diaz was better. Hell, even Berto-Collazo was almost as good as this. Lopez-Mtagwa was far better. Just wondering if a lot of you saw some of those other fights. I think some casual boxing fans expected Williams to walk through Martinez and since it turned out not to be that way added to the excitement when Martinez nearly had Williams out at he end of round 1. As for me I thought it was a good fight and agree though wasnt the fight of the year candidate, the only thing that added to the suspense was wondering how many hooks Paul was going to be able to take and also when Martinez started tiring and wondering about the scoring.

Good. I'm not the only one. I've always said boxing fans have short, short memories, but it's kind of shocking that nobody can even remember a fight that happened not even two months ago (Lopez-Mtagwa and Agbeko-Perez)

great fight, i wasn't really thinking foty, it got sloppy for extended durations, but was still a great fight.

agreed exciting, not foty. this was a good fight though, i was screaming whenever martinez landed. he landed with bad intentions!

I hope Dunne-Cordoba wins foty. That was a great fight. But I don't think too many people have seen it. Shame.

Fight of the year goes to Marquez-Diaz, no doubt. No way Williams-Martinez is even a candidate.

I don't think Diaz-JMM was fight of the year because it was one sided for JMM right before the KO, and Diaz didn't ever really hurt JMM except for in one of those early rounds.

Its a contender but there hasn't been a better fight than JMM/Diaz IMO with JML/Mtagwa a close 2nd. Why were you watching a fight at a party and not partying.. ?

I though it was a pretty good fight, but not quite FOTY, IMO. There are some others that I thought were better.

It was on par with Berto-Collazo, which is an underrated fight. Marquez/Diaz was still better though.