2017 - Best year in boxing ever?

[Boxing56]

1982 was pretty awesome.

[Citizen Koba]

Out the years I can think of clearly enough, that I actually experienced live, 2013 is the only year that compares. And I would definitely pick 2017 over it. It's almost like we all collectively paid our dues in 2016, which was a pretty big dud, to get a year twice as good as we could have guessed afterwards.

It's hard for me to think of other years because my knowledge of what fights occurred in which exact years is a little shaky.

1990 is probably the craziest one I can think of, what with Douglas-Tyson and Chavez-Taylor. Plus you had Nigel Benn - Iran Barkley that year which was ****in nuts.

Whichever year Arguello-Pryor I was in is probably an honorable mention on that fight alone. (Same for the year where Morales-Barrera 1 took place)

Yeah 2013 was the one I remember personally as a recent stand out, though it was only in early 2012 that I returned to the sport in any serious way. I'd say that '17 beats '13 in terms of quality fights though - even if my personal enjoyment of them hasn't been fired up with the same excitement.

[BrometheusBob.]

Yeah 2013 was the one I remember personally as a recent stand out, though it was only in early 2012 that I returned to the sport in any serious way. I'd say that '17 beats '13 in terms of quality fights though - even if my personal enjoyment of them hasn't been fired up with the same excitement.

Yeah there are only a couple fights this year so far that have been exceptionally memorable on their own. But taken together, there have been so many excellent matchups on paper that wound up being solid fights in the ring this year. And we still have a few months to go.

[El Gitano]

Match-ups wise, probably, at least since I've been following it, 1991 - 1999 casually and 2000 to present hardcore. I still think 2000 was better with just Barrera/Morales 1, De La Hoya/Mosley 1 and Trinidad/Vargas alone - you had other less known fighters have great fights too.