Comments Thread For: BoxingScene's 2017 Fighter of The Year: Anthony Joshua

[crold1]

The Klitschko win was big and meaningful.

But the award is for Fighter of the Year not for Fight of the Year.

In his other outing this year Joshua had trouble against a Takam who took the fight on short notice.

Crawford on the other hand unified all 4 belts in 2017, becoming only the second man to ever do it in the four belt era.

I was one of the ones on staff who voted for AJ. Tell you why. I think Fighter, like say the Time Person of the Year, historically for both, can take into account some extras. In ring, Wlad was as good a win as any this year especially considering Joshua was really just a hair past a prospect.

Add to that his emergence as no less than the second biggest global active star, and as the biggest ticket seller in boxing, and his impact on the sport in 2017 was massive. For the first one in a long time, we have a potential heavyweight rainmaker that EVERYONE is lining up to fight and that comes up in pretty much every fight people really want to see in the class that still matters the most of all of them.

No one moved the needle more in 2017, no one was more impactful on the business, and he won a fight of the year in a genuine superfight.

Made him a no brainer pick for me.

[Mooshashi]

I've just burned my Boxing Scene welcome card and deleted my password.

Seriously B.S. call here.....I'm actually kind of shocked. And this win comes after his racist "superior race" comment.

Shame on you, Boxing Scene.

[Lomasexual]

You know Rungvisai had the best wins and deserved it.

I have him third on my list. He beat the best ranked fighter, but he didn't do it in the same devastating fashion.

I'm not just looking at who was beaten - that is part of the equation, but I'm also looking at how they were beaten.

Loma beat good or great fighters and had by far the most dominating victories. He humiliated his opponents. I'm not overlooking that factor.

[Robbie Barrett]

I have him third on my list. He beat the best ranked fighter, but he didn't do it in the same devastating fashion.

I'm not just looking at who was beaten - that is part of the equation, but I'm also looking at how they were beaten.

Loma beat good or great fighters and had by far the most dominating victories. He humiliated his opponents. I'm not overlooking that factor.

He dominated and knocked Gonzalez out. What you talking about? Gonzalez was P4P 1 and top 5 in the 2 fights. Those wins **** all over Lomachenko's.

[ashadam]

im utterly embarrassed by this, if you think Joshua is the fighter of the year you have no business in reporting on boxing as you are a ****in groupie

What fighter did you have then?

[Lomasexual]

He dominated and knocked Gonzalez out. What you talking about? Gonzalez was P4P 1 and top 5 in the 2 fights. Those wins **** all over Lomachenko's.

He had one close win - which people disputed was even a win, and one great KO against the same fighter.

Loma humiliated three good or great fighters. It helps that he had three fights to demonstrate his ability instead of just two.

Three displays of dominance against a variety of fighters, or one display of dominance and one display of matching versus the same fighter.

Rungvisai had a great year, which is why I have him third on my list. Crawford and Loma had better years.

I take three wins where Loma humiliated a variety of good or great opponents over two wins, one of which was disputed and one was a dominant display over the same great guy.

[ShoulderRoll]

I was one of the ones on staff who voted for AJ. Tell you why. I think Fighter, like say the Time Person of the Year, historically for both, can take into account some extras. In ring, Wlad was as good a win as any this year especially considering Joshua was really just a hair past a prospect.

Add to that his emergence as no less than the second biggest global active star, and as the biggest ticket seller in boxing, and his impact on the sport in 2017 was massive. For the first one in a long time, we have a potential heavyweight rainmaker that EVERYONE is lining up to fight and that comes up in pretty much every fight people really want to see in the class that still matters the most of all of them.

No one moved the needle more in 2017, no one was more impactful on the business, and he won a fight of the year in a genuine superfight.

Made him a no brainer pick for me.

I can see that I guess. If you're going to take the Time Person of the Year approach then its hard to argue against the bells and whistles of a ticket selling heavyweight champion.

As far as in the ring, though, I do feel other guys performed better and put in more work than him in 2017.

[takenotes]

Should have been Loma.

[Jkp]

That's just hating. There were 4 legit winners - Joshua, Loma, Crawford and Mikey Garcia.

Joshua is bigger than all of them and sold more tickets in 2 fights in 2017 than the other 3 sold in their entire careers - combined.

He got the biggest, most talked about win of 2017.

Loma a great fighter, but he beat a super bantamweight, a featherweight coming off a loss and a club fighter in Sosa.

Garcia and Crawford had bigger claims to FOTY than he did.

AJ defintely HYPE JOB of the year.

[OgTripleOg]

Crawford the real fighter of 2017 and will be in 2018.