Top 10 Candidates for FOTY

[soul_survivor]

So, a lot of talk about who it should be, a thread on Crawford and a top 5 article on BS but I wanted to get everyone's opinion and to know who you guys think should be recognised as the top 10 contenders for the title? Here's mine:

1. Manny Pacquiao
2. Sergey Kovalev
3. Nicholas Walters
4. Terrence Crawford
5. Miguel Cotto
6. Gennady Golovkin
7. Roman Gonzalez
8. Wladimir Klitschko
9. Naoya Inoue
10. Saul Alvarez

Poll added: can only have 10 options so if anyone wants to vote Amnat Ruenroeng or Lomachenko can just post a comment. I can't see either guy being rated above the 10 I just did but they did have good years, just not good enough.

[jas]

tony bellew

if not bellew then pacquaio for being the only guy who beat PRIME ELITE fighter

and i would have herrera in there instead of canelo

[Check_hooks]

Its a two man race between Pacquiao or Kovalev

[bojangles1987]

I think it's Crawford or Walters.

Pacquiao and Kovalev both had really good individual wins, but those wins weren't good enough IMO. Both Crawford and Walters went from potential to champs with multiple impressive wins this year.

And there's definitely no way Cotto or Golovkin had better years than Gonzalez.

[LacedUp]

Crawford.

If not him then Gonzalez.

[Century Tuna]

1. Mayweather
2. Crawford
3. Walters

[Hitman Hodgson]

Anyone think Lomachenko could be in with a shout?

Whomever wins I hope it goes to some new blood like Crawford, Gonzales or Kovalev.

[jas]

Anyone think Lomachenko could be in with a shout?

Whomever wins I hope it goes to some new blood like Crawford, Gonzales or Kovalev.

for beating who?

[Sancho Puncho]

Kovalev.
If he gets FOTY, it will be major karma justice, for all ducking that - Stevenson - last year fighter of the year did this year.

[PK3434]

1. Crawford - 3 wins against 3 good opponents
2. Walters..sick knockouts of Vic and Nonaire
3. Kovalev...Huge power and showing that he is a very good boxer and a vastly underrated athlete
4. Pacquaio...Looked good against Algieri and won 8 or 9 rounds against Bradley, which I'm not sure anyone else can do.
5. Golovkin - Say what you want about his opposition but nobody else in the world is knocking out Geale in 3 and Rubio in 2...Adama had also never been stopped in his career and GGG stopped him, knocked him down multiple times even with a jab.


Cotto only fought once which disqualifies him.
Roman Gonzalez should probably be on the list but I actually only saw one of his fights.
Mayweather had 2 wins, but just didn't look as good as he did in 2013.