The Ring's "Fighter of the Year"... a curse?

[Kball15]

When u win fighter of the year, that fighter has put everything he has into his fights. his heart and sould. very few can do that twice, let alone a few years.

take frazier for example. Puts ever inch of what he has into training and beating Muhammad alit. When he fights foreman, he simply doesnt have "it" cause the heart just isnt there as much in training. the hunger i mean.

u know? thats what i think it is

[TheEvilSaint]

I've just been looking at the recent winners of this honour, and just from 2000 alone it seems that every fighter that has won the "Ring Fighter of the Year" has had their career go off the rails the following year. Take a look and see what I mean:

2000 - Felix Trinidad - The year after winning, gets sparked by Hopkins

2002 - Vernon Forrest - Spends the following year getting blasted out by Mayorga, then losing a contentious decision to him.

2003 - James Toney - injuries, winning a title but getting stripped, being so fat he got outboxed by Rahman, outboxing Peter but losing the decision anyway.

2004 - Glen Johnson - I thought the Tarver win was a slight gift, but since then he's lost his #1 status by losing to Tarver in the rematch and then failed in his bid to recapture his old IBF title.

2005 - Ricky Hatton - Not too keen on the physicality of his work, but I guess he did beat Costa Zoo, whatever the circumstances, then KO the never-been-sparked (only on cuts) Maussa, unifying half the welterweight belts and becoming The Man at 140. This year he's made three appearances in a boxing ring. Sadly, two of them were as the white James Toney to support Clinton Woods and Barrera, while the first saw him get his head wobbled all over the place by Collazo in an extremely close fight.



The only winner of the new millennium that has had any kind of upturned success since receiving it was arguably Bernard Hopkins in 2001, though by that stage he was beginning to slow down to the extent that he would eventually give away his belts to Taylor.

"sparked"? .... thats kinda cool. i like that term, sparked...

[bsrizpac]

Correlation is not causation. Take a basic statistics course.

[kg21mvp]

hatton aint got no fights since the collazo fight..

[TomRiddle]

Dont forget that JFK was on the "Ring" cover in 1962!

well, that's one of those strange coincidences related to him.
I dont know that.

[PATO 1]

little floyd was fighter of the year in 1998 werent he and hes still the p4p king

[Guest]

"sparked"? .... thats kinda cool. i like that term, sparked...

Don't you have that term?

[Guest]

Correlation is not causation. Take a basic statistics course.

**** your mother.

[bsrizpac]

**** your mother.

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Still got me in your sig, huh? And I understand more about stats than you ever will, it was just a fun thread. Stay out of my threads from now on, you bore me with your Yank-A-Matic declarations"
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You'll stay there as long as you act like a four year old spamming on a website trying to act tough.

And clearly you don't understand anything about statistics to have made this thread. If it was just a "fun thread" then you were missing the fun part a key. Maybe you should stick to unfinny gifs and photoshops that bash professional fighters instead. That at least is almost chuckle worthy.

You're easily bristled. One would have to assume you're either very old or very young. Either way for such a tough internet coolguy you should grow a thicker skin.

Nice comeback by the way. Real conducive to keeping it "mature" and the talking about "boxing" rather than "pwnage" or "lolz" or "haters". You remember that right? You know how you go on and on about intellegent mature boxing discussion?

Where did that go? Why "**** your mother"? Does that have anything to do with boxing?

Go take a stats course. Then get back here and let me know what that has to do with "Yank-a-Matic declarations".

[Guest]

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Still got me in your sig, huh? And I understand more about stats than you ever will, it was just a fun thread. Stay out of my threads from now on, you bore me with your Yank-A-Matic declarations"
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You'll stay there as long as you act like a four year old spamming on a website trying to act tough.

And clearly you don't understand anything about statistics to have made this thread. If it was just a "fun thread" then you were missing the fun part a key. Maybe you should stick to unfinny gifs and photoshops that bash professional fighters instead. That at least is almost chuckle worthy.

You're easily bristled. One would have to assume you're either very old or very young. Either way for such a tough internet coolguy you should grow a thicker skin.

Nice comeback by the way. Real conducive to keeping it "mature" and the talking about "boxing" rather than "pwnage" or "lolz" or "haters". You remember that right? You know how you go on and on about intellegent mature boxing discussion?

Where did that go? Why "**** your mother"? Does that have anything to do with boxing?

Go take a stats course. Then get back here and let me know what that has to do with "Yank-a-Matic declarations".

For the record of anyone not paying attention, this little pee wee here first stalked me at YouTube with some "Brit" bashing, which explains the "Yank" jibe. He's a total assclown, and continues to stalk me here.

I really couldn't give a **** what YOU think is "funny", or "fun". Your continued repeating of you not finding my avatars funny is alarming... what does it matter to you? It's like there's some issue there, like you're trying to offend me or something, LOL. Don't you understand that humour is a subjective opinion? You state it as if "funny" is an objective measurable fact.

As for me "acting tough" and "spamming"... oh Christ, I really can't even be bothered to answer. I dunno what you mean by "spamming" at all, you're just a twat, just a statistic. You have absolutely nothing new to say about any topic related to boxing whatsoever. Like I said, the Yank-A-Matic. Just a bog standard man with bog standard views being regurgitated.

Seriously, just **** off out of my threads. You're an *******. "I'll stay there" in your sig. What, like your opinion matters a **** or anyone on this entire forum gives a **** what you think?

This was just a fun discussion topic, there was absolutely NO NEED for the abuse whatsoever. OF COURSE I understand what stats are. You're just a ****ing stalking penis with a whore for a mother. **** off and leave me alone, go and post in some other thread. Twat.