Worst Ring Magazine Year-End Winners

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1996 Fight of the Year: Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson 1

Not even a top 5 fight of 1996. Rid**** Bowe-Andrew Golota 2, Arturo Gatti-Wilson Rodriguez, Marco Antonio Barrera-Kennedy Mckinney, Tim Littles-Frankie Liles 2, and Kevin Kelley-Derrick Gainer 1 were all better.

1977 Fight of the Year: Jimmy Young-George Foreman

Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad)-Marvin Johnson 1 is one of the greatest fights in boxing history.

2002 Knockout of the Year: Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson

A knockout with a guy already beaten half to death, and needs a shove to fall down? Please. James Toney-Jason Robinson was better. Compare the two.






2003 Fight of the Year: Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward 3

A rather one-sided fight in which a guy with one non-broken hand wins 8 of 10 rounds. The rounds he loses? When he breaks his hand, and when he gets dropped after winning the first 2:55 of the round.

James Toney-Vassily Jirov and Michael Gomez-Alex Arthur were better.


Some of the old winners were strange. Foreman-Frazier I as fight of the year? Sure, if you like watching a man vs. boy beatdown.

[crold1]

78 was the WORST as Ali-Spinks beat out Holmes-Norton. That was some nut gurgling stuff.

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78 was the WORST as Ali-Spinks beat out Holmes-Norton. That was some nut gurgling stuff.

That was also the year that Franklin/Saad fought Kates, which was another terrific fight.

[TheGreatA]

Norris' KO of Mugabi in 1990 which won the KO of the year didn't compare to Douglas' KO of Tyson in my opinion.

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The best KOs of 1990, IMO, were Ruddock-Dokes (my all-time favorite) and Jackson-Graham.

[TheGreatA]

The best KOs of 1990, IMO, were Ruddock-Dokes (my all-time favorite) and Jackson-Graham.

I forgot that those KO's were in 1990. Those were definitely better than the Mugabi KO in which Mugabi was basically out on his feet for the whole first round and was finally finished at the end of it.

[JAB5239]

The best KOs of 1990, IMO, were Ruddock-Dokes (my all-time favorite) and Jackson-Graham.

The Ruddock-Dokes ko might be ko of the century. That was just brutal! Nice thread. I agree with everything you've said. Seems more like a popularity contest than an award for an actual acheivment.