Comments Thread For: BoxingScene.com's 2013 Fight of The Year

[JakeNDaBox]

As long as I've been reading BoxingScene, I don't think I've ever agreed with their #1 FOTY candidate. They're always so predictable and 'safe'. Bradley-Provodnikov had some stretches without much action at all, whereas Figueroa-Arakawa was the kind of non-stop savage brutality of which Gatti and Ward would be proud.

2008: Adamek-Cunningham
2009: Maidana-Ortiz
2010: Soto-Antillon
2011: Ortiz-Berto
2012: Rios-Alvardo
2013: Figueroa-Arakawa

Maybe 2014 will break the streak.

Predictable and safe?
Our 2011 pick was Yaegashi-Porpramook. How the hell is that a predictable and safe pick?
Segura-Calderon 1 was our 2010 Pick.

[HeroBando]

Predictable and safe?
Our 2011 pick was Yaegashi-Porpramook. How the hell is that a predictable and safe pick?
Segura-Calderon 1 was our 2010 Pick.

Marquez Concepcion was also tops in 2011, IMO better than Ortiz Berto, and better than Segura Marquez. How about Abregu vs Irving Garcia, was this ever in contention in 2009?

[young_rascal]

Has "Fight of the Year" always been synonymous with brutal slugfest with poor defensive performances? I was extremely disappointed with Bradley and unimpressed with the way he allowed a fighter who he should have easily outboxed brutalize him and nearly ruin his career. Stunned when I see boxing fans give him props for his dumb performance.

[HeroBando]

Has "Fight of the Year" always been synonymous with brutal slugfest with poor defensive performances? I was extremely disappointed with Bradley and unimpressed with the way he allowed a fighter who he should have easily outboxed brutalize him and nearly ruin his career. Stunned when I see boxing fans give him props for his dumb performance.

It's not "Best technical performance of the year". FOTY's gotta be exciting, for one. That usually means someone gets hurt. If it beats the odds, even better. Crazy heart shown, furious finish, all pluses. This one had it all. I agree Bradley shouldn't be scoring p4p or Fighter or the Year points for it though.

[SUBZER0ED]

Where's Tim Bradley? I'm not hearing anything from him. He's the WW champ, but I don't hear him asking for any fights. He could get paid for Bradley vs. Provo II, probably a PPV event if TR makes a decent card to go with it! It doesn't seem like Pac is really interested in fighting him anymore because he's not a crowd pleaser. Bradley man up, call out Provo before Pac beats you to the punch!

Bradley doesn't want Provodnikov again. Provo gave Bradley the beating of his career.

[young_rascal]

It's not "Best technical performance of the year". FOTY's gotta be exciting, for one. That usually means someone gets hurt. If it beats the odds, even better. Crazy heart shown, furious finish, all pluses. This one had it all. I agree Bradley shouldn't be scoring p4p or Fighter or the Year points for it though.

I hear you-- I wouldn't nominate a Guillermo Rigondeaux or Floyd Mayweather performance but I think there should be a happy medium. Just weird to me that the same hardcore boxing fans and pundits spend so much time lecturing casual fans about the subtle craft of the sweet science go ape$h!t over brawls and slugfests.