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Basically a list of the best fight from every year as a follow up to my original thread about the topic. This time I’m making a formalized list starting from the 50’s since that’s the first decade where it became easy to find footage of most of the significant fights and even the lesser known ones. Link to the Wikipedia article for Ring Magazine’s Fight of the Year is up at the top if you want to make your own. This list isn’t permanent and will update if I see a fight that changes my mind.
Time to create our ideal Fight of the Year list.
Replacements are marked with a *
1950s
Basically a list of the best fight from every year as a follow up to my original thread about the topic. This time I’m making a formalized list starting from the 50’s since that’s the first decade where it became easy to find footage of most of the significant fights and even the lesser known ones. Link to the Wikipedia article for Ring Magazine’s Fight of the Year is up at the top if you want to make your own. This list isn’t permanent and will update if I see a fight that changes my mind.
Time to create our ideal Fight of the Year list.
Replacements are marked with a *
1950s
- 1950 – Jake LaMotta KO 15 Laurent Dauthuille II
- 1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson TKO 13 Jake LaMotta VI*
- 1952 – Rocky Marciano KO 13 Jersey Joe Walcott I
- 1953 – Rocky Marciano KO 11 Roland La Starza II
- 1954 – Rocky Marciano KO 8 Ezzard Charles II
- 1955 – Carmen Basilio KO 12 Tony DeMarco II
- 1956 – Carmen Basilio KO 9 Johnny Saxton II
- 1957 – Carmen Basilio W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson I
- 1958 – Archie Moore KO 11 Yvon Durelle I*
- 1959 – Gaspar Ortega W 10 Benny Paret I*
- 1960 – Floyd Patterson KO 5 Ingemar Johansson II
- 1961 – Floyd Patterson KO 6 Ingemar Johansson III*
- 1962 – **** Tiger W 10 Henry Hank*
- 1963 – Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) W 10 Doug Jones
- 1964 – Muhammad Ali KO 7 Sonny Liston I
- 1965 – Fighting Harada W 15 Éder Jofre I*
- 1966 – José Torres W 15 Eddie Cotton
- 1967 – Nino Benvenuti W 15 Emile Griffith I
- 1968 – **** Tiger W 10 Frankie DePaula
- 1969 – Joe Frazier KO 7 Jerry Quarry I
- 1970 – Carlos Monzón KO 12 Nino Benvenuti I
- 1971 – Joe Frazier W 15 Muhammad Ali I
- 1972 – Bob Foster KO 14 Chris Finnegan
- 1973 – Muhummad Ali W 12 Ken Norton II*
- 1974 – Roberto Durán KO 11 Esteban DeJesús II*
- 1975 – Muhammad Ali TKO 14 Joe Frazier III
- 1976 – George Foreman KO 5 Ron Lyle
- 1977 – Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 12 Marvin Johnson I*
- 1978 – Larry Holmes W 15 Ken Norton*
- 1979 – Danny Lopez KO 15 Mike Ayala
- 1980 – Roberto Durán W 15 Sugar Ray Leonard I*
- 1981 – Sugar Ray Leonard KO 14 Thomas Hearns I
- 1982 – Bobby Chacon UD 15 Rafael Limon IV
- 1983 – Bobby Chacon W 12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards II
- 1984 – Jung-Koo Chang TKO 9 Katsuo Tokashiki*
- 1985 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler KO 3 Thomas Hearns
- 1986 – Evander Holyfield W 15 Dwight Muhummad Qawi I*
- 1987 – Sugar Ray Leonard W 12 Marvelous Marvin Hagler
- 1988 – Tony Lopez W 12 Rocky Lockridge I
- 1989 – Roberto Durán W 12 Iran Barkley
- 1990 – Chris Eubank TKO 9 Nigel Benn I*
- 1991 – James Toney D 12 Mike McCallum I*
- 1992 – Rid**** Bowe W 12 Evander Holyfield I
- 1993 – Michael Carbajal KO 7 Humberto González I
- 1994 – Jorge Castro KO 9 John David Jackson I
- 1995 – Saman Sorjaturong KO 7 Humberto González
- 1996 – Evander Holyfield TKO 11 Mike Tyson I
- 1997 – Ike Ibeabuchi W 12 David Tua*
- 1998 – Ivan Robinson W 10 Arturo Gatti I
- 1999 – Paulie Ayala W 12 Johnny Tapia I
- 2000 – Erik Morales W 12 Marco Antonio Barrera I
- 2001 – Micky Ward W 10 Emanuel Augustus
- 2002 – Micky Ward W 10 Arturo Gatti I
- 2003 – James Toney W 12 Vassiliy Jirov*
- 2004 – Manny Pacquiao D 12 Juan Manuel Márquez I*
- 2005 – Diego Corrales TKO 10 José Luis Castillo
- 2006 – Somsak Sithchatchawal TKO 10 Mahyar Monshipour
- 2007 – Kelly Pavlik TKO 7 Jermain Taylor I*
- 2008 – Israel Vázquez W 12 Rafael Márquez III
- 2009 – Juan Manuel Márquez KO 9 Juan Diaz I
- 2010 – Amir Khan W 12 Marcos Maidana*
- 2011 – Delvin Rodriguez MD 10 Pawel Wolak*
- 2012 – Juan Manuel Márquez KO 6 Manny Pacquiao IV
- 2013 – Timothy Bradley W 12 Ruslan Provodnikov
- 2014 – Lucas Matthysse KO 11 John Molina, Jr.
- 2015 – Francisco Vargas TKO 9 Takashi Miura
- 2016 – Francisco Vargas D 12 Orlando Salido
- 2017 – Srisaket Sor Rungvisai W 12 Román González I*
- 2018 – Canelo Álvarez W 12 Gennady Golovkin II
- 2019 – Naoya Inoue W 12 Nonito Donaire I
- 2020 – Jose Zepeda KO 5 Ivan Baranchyk
- 2021 – Tyson Fury KO 11 Deontay Wilder III
- 2022 – Leigh Wood TKO 12 Michael Conlan
- 2023 – Luis Nery KO 11 Azat Hovhannisyan
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