SI FOTD and WBN FOTD which is more prestigious?

[pacphobia]

Floyd is World Boxing News FOTD while Andre Ward is Sports Illustrated FOTD.

[Roadblock]

Just another trophy to elite athletes, everybody handing them out these days, means more to the fanboys than it does to the fighters .

[Roadblock]

Just another trophy to elite athletes, everybody handing them out these days, means more to the fanboys than it does to the fighters .

[boliodogs]

There is enough different fighter of the decade awards for every potential winner to get a few of them. The only award I think Ward should get is dirtiest fighter of the decade but FOTD it's just opinion so nobody is really right or wrong.To me Mayweather wins it even though he did not fight the entire decade. He went undefeated and beat lots of champions including two other fighter of the decade candidates Pacquiao and Canelo.

[pillowfists98]

WBN is a tabloid site. They put out fake/clickbait articles all the time.

[IronDanHamza]

Neither are prestigious

[CHOWWOKKA]

They are both equally useless accolades.

[kafkod]

Floyd is World Boxing News FOTD while Andre Ward is Sports Illustrated FOTD.

Andre Ward fighter of the decade?!!!

[The Big Dunn]

Andre Ward fighter of the decade?!!!

If you read the article on it, Mannix is like trying to make it sound convinceable but even he doesn't believe it.

[kafkod]

If you read the article on it, Mannix is like trying to make it sound convinceable but even he doesn't believe it.

There's no way you could make a convincing case for Ward as FOTD, even leaving out the qualifying asterisks against every one of his career highlights, which Mannix does.

Here they are with the asterisks:

Winning the SMW Supersix tournament. * The tournament did not include Lucian Bute, who was the undefeated IBF champion and ranked No1 in the division by Ring Magazine when it began. Ward was the only contestant who was allowed home advantage for all his fights.

Beating Chad Dawson, "arguably" the best 175 fighter in the world, at 168 lbs. * Dawson was severely weight drained at 168, and turned out to be nowhere near as good as he was touted as being prior to fighting Ward.

Moving up to 175 himself 3 years later and beating WBA, WBO and IBF champion Sergey Kovalev twice. * Both Ward's wins over Kovalev were highly controversial, to say the least. In fact, they would both be strong contenders for "controversial result of the decade"

Kovalev was the only 175 lb fighter that Ward ever fought at 175.