Best Fighter of the Year Since 2000?

[Fox McCloud]

Obviously they all had good years, but some were clearly better than others.

I personally find Glen Johnson beating Clinton Woods, Roy Jones Jr. and Antonio Tarver in 2004 to be more impressive than Floyd Mayweather Jr. beating Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton in 2007. Which one do you think is the best since 2000?

[Fox McCloud]

I voted Forrest over Johnson by a hair, only because Mosley was coming off beating Oscar De La Hoya and was considered the best in the sport at the time. It also helps that the first fight between Forrest and Mosley was an absolute wipeout for Forrest.

Johnson beating Woods, Jones Jr. and Tarver is tremendously impressive though.

[supermandathoe]

Glen beat Clinton Woods Antonio Tarver and Roy Jones Jr. **** that is what I call fighting the best.

[My Name Is...]

Glen beat Clinton Woods Antonio Tarver and Roy Jones Jr. **** that is what I call fighting the best.

Im right there with you homie, thats who I picked

[Fox McCloud]

Shoutout to Felix Trinidad in 2000 too.

Undefeated Reid, one loss some guy I've never heard of, and undefeated Vargas. Reid and Vargas alone is a great year, and fighting a nobody can't actually hurt that, and considering he only had one loss, I can't imagine that it doesn't get him at least a fraction more of credit.

[Kilrain]

Money May seeing how Oscar is still a great fighter, it was 24Lbs north of his original weight class, and DLH had put in one of his best ever performances vs Mayorga - also Hatton was unbeaten and coming off a big win.

Forrest's was impressive but styles make fights, he beat the same guy twice, admitedly Shane was p4p high at the time, but I favour May

[-EX-]

I voted for Glen Johnson. Pacquiao is close too.

[My Name Is...]

Shoutout to Felix Trinidad in 2000 too.

Undefeated Reid, one loss some guy I've never heard of, and undefeated Vargas. Reid and Vargas alone is a great year, and fighting a nobody can't actually hurt that, and considering he only had one loss, I can't imagine that it doesn't get him at least a fraction more of credit.

Yeah but Reid only had 14 fights and Vargas only 15, he caught them too early in their careers. They were both kicking his ass (yes look at the middle rounds of the Vargas fight, and the fist six with Reid) but they weren't seasoned enough for Tito's dirty tactics. In BOTH fight Tito got dropped and came back BOTH times will LOW BLOWS to get time to recover, while Reid and Vargas took their time for the low blow.

[Fox McCloud]

Money May seeing how Oscar is still a great fighter, it was 24Lbs north of his original weight class, and DLH had put in one of his best ever performances vs Mayorga - also Hatton was unbeaten and coming off a big win.

Forrest's was impressive but styles make fights, he beat the same guy twice, admitedly Shane was p4p high at the time, but I favour May

I thought Mayweather should have gotten FOTY last year, but... I honestly thought both Cotto and Pavlik were close. Oscar was pretty old and Hatton really does not carry himself well when he comes in at 147. It looks better on paper than it actually was IMO. Still a good year though.

I voted for Glen Johnson. Pacquiao is close too.

Morales was so far gone in the third fight, and he had just gotten widely outpointed by a fairly mediocre Raheem. I'm not too sure that Pacquiao's 2006 was exceptional when it comes to great years.

[Kilrain]

Vargas had 20 I recall, he'd won the title on 15 against Campas. But you're pretty on the money, Vargas was still a relative pup, he shoulda had a couple more fights, that being said Tito woulda always exposed his dodgy chin. And I had Vargas taking over from 3-5 but after that Trinidad pretty much began to dominate (after low blows, ouch 'Nando felt them)

Yeah [/RIGHT]but Reid only had 14 fights and Vargas only 15, he caught them too early in their careers. They were both kicking his ass (yes look at the middle rounds of the Vargas fight, and the fist six with Reid) but they weren't seasoned enough for Tito's dirty tactics. In BOTH fight Tito got dropped and came back BOTH times will LOW BLOWS to get time to recover, while Reid and Vargas took their time for the low blow.