Boxing Awards 2017

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Fighter of the year: Srisaket
Sor Rungvisai
Honourable mentions:
Lomachenko, Crawford, Mikey Garcia, Andre Ward

Fight of the year: Gonzalez vs Sor Rungvisai 1
Honourable mentions:
AJ-Klitschko, Valdez-Marriaga, Khytrov-Aleem, Brezeale-Ugonoh, DeGale-Jack, Molina-Redkach

KO of the year: Sor Rungvisai KO’s Gonzalez
Honourable mentions: Lemieux KO’s Stevens, Garcia KO’s Zlaticanin, Tete KO’s Gonya, Beltran KO’s Macielo, Benavidez KO’s Medina

Upset of the year: Horn defeating Pacquiao
Honourable mentions: Ali defeating Cotto, Truax defeating DeGale, Sor Rungvisai defeating Gonzalez, Kimura defeating Shiming.

Trainer of the year: Derrick James
Honourable mentions: Anatoly Lomachenko, Robert Garcia, Virgil Hunter, Lou Del Valle

Prospect of the year: Teofimo Lopez
Honourable mentions: Ryan Garcia, Josh Kelly, Daniel Dubois, Nico Hernandez, Devin Haney

What are other people’s picks for these categories?

[Redd Foxx]

I'm ok with most (though it's a little Rung-heavy).
The "upset" is pretty ridiculous because that outcome is disputed by most. I think Degale's fight is a much better choice for upset. Indongo KO'd that Russian (Troya?) this year too, right? Or, was that last year?

[Madison Boxing]

you got upset of the year mixed up with robbery of the year. i wouldnt have sor rungvasi top of any of them awards either

[Golden Boi 360]

Centeno KO Aleem is my KOTY

[Redd Foxx]

Centeno KO Aleem is my KOTY

Few things more beautiful that two simultaneous left hooks, and one guy drops.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Horn won that fight IMO, I’ve watched it twice scored it 115-113 Horn both times. I can see why people could score it for Pac as it was a close fight certainly NOT a robbery. Pac was expected to destroy Horn easily, like a prime Pac would have. What transpired was a fighter, who was essentially unknown as of a year ago, defeated a modern day legend. It’s the clear upset of the year IMO

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I'm ok with most (though it's a little Rung-heavy).
The "upset" is pretty ridiculous because that outcome is disputed by most. I think Degale's fight is a much better choice for upset. Indongo KO'd that Russian (Troya?) this year too, right? Or, was that last year?

That was Dec 2016 maybe late Nov but definitely 2016. I see your point but personally I scored the fight for Horn, he won fair and square in my eyes. It was a close fight but not the robbery some of the US media portrayed it as.
It is Rungvisai heavy tbf, but he deserved them all IMO, it was his year definitely. I could’ve arguably gave fight of the year to AJ-Klitschko but I watched it back the other day and there were a lot of lull periods in it. And Gonzalez-SSR was just an all out, non-stop technical war.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

you got upset of the year mixed up with robbery of the year. i wouldnt have sor rungvasi top of any of them awards either

SSR had two wins over an elite fighter this year. No one else has more than 1. He beat the generally considered p4p number 1 fighter at the start of 2017 in a big upset, then completely dominated him in the rematch. I think he’s the clear fighter of the year. The other two I’ll admit are debatable.

[Sadiqkingofko]

Fighter of the year: Srisaket
Sor Rungvisai
Honourable mentions:
Lomachenko, Crawford, Mikey Garcia, Andre Ward

Agree

Fight of the year: Gonzalez vs Sor Rungvisai 1
Honourable mentions:
AJ-Klitschko, Valdez-Marriaga, Khytrov-Aleem, Brezeale-Ugonoh, DeGale-Jack, Molina-Redkach

Klitschko-Joshua

KO of the year: Sor Rungvisai KO’s Gonzalez
Honourable mentions: Lemieux KO’s Stevens, Garcia KO’s Zlaticanin, Tete KO’s Gonya, Beltran KO’s Macielo, Benavidez KO’s Medina

Wilder-Stiverne2

Upset of the year: Horn defeating Pacquiao
Honourable mentions: Ali defeating Cotto, Truax defeating DeGale, Sor Rungvisai defeating Gonzalez, Kimura defeating Shiming.

Truax-DeGale

Trainer of the year: Derrick James
Honourable mentions: Anatoly Lomachenko, Robert Garcia, Virgil Hunter, Lou Del Valle

Andre Rozier

Prospect of the year: Teofimo Lopez
Honourable mentions: Ryan Garcia, Josh Kelly, Daniel Dubois, Nico Hernandez, Devin Haney

Josh Kelly

What are other people’s picks for these categories?

Good work but that's my take

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Good work but that's my take

Fair enough man, all reasonable picks. I was considering giving Rozier an honourable mention for trainer of the year but I couldn’t really think of a standout performance he had as a trainer aside from GGG-Jacobs, and GGG still won the fight so the game plan was effective but obviously didn’t work well enough.
What made you pick him?