Top 10 Candidates for FOTY

[#1Assassin]

But Ricky Bums doe
But Raymundo Beltran doe

Terence Crawford went to fight in Scotland so he should be FOTY

going to scotland DOES make the win more impressive, nobody is saying simply travelling should get someone FOTY so stop being silly. if you however beat a good fighter and happen to go half way across the world to beat them in their backyard that makes the win all the more impressive. especially a place like scotland thats both had recent controversy in a similar situation (burn-beltran) and which has such a ruckus and passionate home crowd.

but more importantly burns is just a good fighter, many people were considering him the premier lightweight before the beltran fight and crawford just beat him too. those are both impressive wins, neither is the best win of the year or even close. but combine those and the gamboa fight and you have a great year overall.

unless you have a marquez-pacquiao 4 type performance its hard to win FOTY with one fight and it should be. as the name states it awards a fighter for his body of work over the course of the entire year.

why wasnt dawson considered for FOTY when he beat a younger, fresher and better hopkins than kovalev did? because he lost in the same year and that detracts from his overall performance. just as every win crawford and gonzalez pulled of collectively put them in a very good position despite not being able to rival walters, pacquiao or even kovalev for individual wins.

[arraamis]

Who did PAC beat?

I had to check again, because I had the same question

Bradley & Algieri .......... FOTY worthy? I don't think so - Sorry!!

One candidate is Crawford with wins over (Burns, Gamboa & Beltran)
Another legitimate candidate is Kovalev (Agnew, Caparello & Hopkins)

[HanzGruber]

I had to check again, because I had the same question

Bradley & Algieri .......... FOTY worthy? I don't think so - Sorry!!

One candidate is Crawford with wins over (Burns, Gamboa & Beltran)
Another legitimate candidate is Kovalev (Agnew, Caparello & Hopkins)

Yea those are the only candidates.

[Divine Hammer]

1. pac
2. crawford
3. kovalev
4. wlad
5. roman gonzalez
6. lomachenko
7. walters
8. miguel cotto
9. carl frampton
10. gennady golovkin

[Divine Hammer]

I had to check again, because I had the same question

Bradley & Algieri .......... FOTY worthy? I don't think so - Sorry!!

One candidate is Crawford with wins over (Burns, Gamboa & Beltran)
Another legitimate candidate is Kovalev (Agnew, Caparello & Hopkins)

pac's win against algieri > kovalev's wins against agnew and caparello

algieri was ranked #3 at jr. welter, world champion, and coming off a big upset win against provodnikov. what did agnew and caparello do prior to fighting kovalev and how high were they ranked?

kovalev's win against hopkins was good but hopkins is obviously way past his prime, and not ranked in the top ten p4p like bradley was.

pac is the only fighter this year to beat two undefeated (officially) world champions in their prime.

[Johnny Rubber]

Kov, Crawford or Walters. Pac should be in with a shout also.

[Johnny Rubber]

1. pac
2. crawford
3. kovalev
4. wlad
5. roman gonzalez
6. lomachenko
7. walters
8. miguel cotto
9. carl frampton
10. gennady golovkin

Good list

[soul_survivor]

You have missed one of the strongest contenders: Amnat Ruenroeng

Didn't he lose this year? I thought he did but cba to check boxrec

Good post

Winner of the fight between the 2 next year can get FOTY or winner of you know who

This year PAC is the ONLY guy to beat a PRIME ELITE opponent.

spot on

The way Roman Gonzalez is getting overrated on here is unbelievable. Well, for what he's done in 2014.

Roman Gonzalez's 2014:

Juan Kantun TKO6 - Bum
Juan Purisima TKO3 - Bum
Akira Yaegashi TKO9 - Great Win
Rocky Fuentes TKO6 - Fringe Contender

And other than Yaegashi, all of Gonzalez's opponents were coming off of losses.

Meanwhile Juan Francisco Estrada has done virtually the same thing, yet I haven't seen his name mentioned once.

Juan Francisco Estrada's 2014:

Richie Mepranum TKO10 - Fringe Contender
Giovani Segura TKO11 - Great Win
Joebert Alvarez on Saturday - Undefeated Bum

havent seen enough of estrada so I wont comment on that

I had to check again, because I had the same question

Bradley & Algieri .......... FOTY worthy? I don't think so - Sorry!!

One candidate is Crawford with wins over (Burns, Gamboa & Beltran)
Another legitimate candidate is Kovalev (Agnew, Caparello & Hopkins)

of all those name mentioned in your post, who is the best at this stage in time?

[soul_survivor]

1. pac
2. crawford
3. kovalev
4. wlad
5. roman gonzalez
6. lomachenko
7. walters
8. miguel cotto
9. carl frampton
10. gennady golovkin

why is loma above walters?