2017 is a great year for boxing?

[soul_survivor]

Spence vs Brook is a very competitive fight imo. I think Khan / Pac and Canelo / Chavez Jr might be competitive, which is better than most Pac and Canelo fights tbh.

Seriously, I think you should be hyped for Brook/ Spence though. Even if you don't rate Spence (and I think you should) you've got two guys with huge KO ratios who both have some holes in their defences. Just think of it as a Provo-Matthysse type fight if you don't think that they're that skillful.

Anyway, I'm sure there are fights left to be announced in May because we're still 8 weeks for the start of the month. But even if that was it for May, can you really not say that the year has been great?

A level fights
Jack vs Degale
LSC vs Frampton
Dejan vs Mikey Garcia
Aj vs Klit
Thurman vs Garcia
Spence vs Brook

B level fights:
Broner vs Granados
Peterson vs Avansyan
Crolla vs Linares
Canelo vs Chavez
Vasquez vs Collazo
Pedraza vs Davis
Khan vs Pac
Harrison vs Hurd

There are probably others too, but that seems pretty good to me considering only 4 1/2 months of fights have been announced.

The Mikey figh twasnt A level lol

Crolla v Linares is A level as it decides who's the best in the division (probably Linares again).

I wont go into all the others. Like I said, its been a good year, especially in light of a poor 2016 but none of those ifghts have been all time standards in terms of skill, acion, grit, heart etc. The match ups on papers have been pretty solid though.

It still doenst touch some of the genuinely great years in boxing. Think of a year like 2007, which was truly great.

[stiff_back]

The Mikey figh twasnt A level lol

Crolla v Linares is A level as it decides who's the best in the division (probably Linares again).

I wont go into all the others. Like I said, its been a good year, especially in light of a poor 2016 but none of those ifghts have been all time standards in terms of skill, acion, grit, heart etc. The match ups on papers have been pretty solid though.

It still doenst touch some of the genuinely great years in boxing. Think of a year like 2007, which was truly great.

I had a look at Boxing in 2007 on wikipedia and, 2017 has had a much better first few months without a doubt.

But what I'll grant you is that 2017 is missing a ATG/ Mega fight like May/ ODH or May/ Hatton. AJ vs Klit is pretty close to that (especially if you're from the UK like me), but there's still a long way to go in the year.

Part of the problem with boxing atm is that there aren't enough stars to make big fights. Like if Degale and Jack were superstars (both are better than Canelo and Broner imo so no reason why they couldn't be stars, hypothetically) then people would be saying that was ATG fight. But I feel that a lot of guys get overlooked because they don't have that huge hype train/ super-stardom behind them.

As a boxing fan, I am just happy that the best available fights seem to be getting made right now.

What fights would excite you?

[BWC]

Add Brook-Spence to that list and it's a fight fans dream year so far..

GGG-Canelo seems to be finally happening plus maybe Ward-Kov 2. Hopefully if we get Wilder-Parker this year it's a banner year for sure. Best year in a decade..

[iamboxing]

Hating on Pac vs Khan (good competetive fight) and Canelo-Chavez but praise Haye vs Bellew

Because there's friction and genuine hate between Haye and Bellew which always makes any fight interesting. Sorry, but Chavez looks like he doesn't know where he is half the time.

[Eff Pandas]

It's for sure looking like a good year. Kinda weird you're bringing this up after Manny vs Khan looks possible doe as that seems like a middle of the road caliber fight. I'll consider it great once we see GGG vs Canelo and ideally some good elite HW fights happening after Klitschko vs Joshua.

[Canelo and GGG]

Because there's friction and genuine hate between Haye and Bellew which always makes any fight interesting. Sorry, but Chavez looks like he doesn't know where he is half the time.

Bellew will look worst after his fight with Haye ,it can be excating ,but if same time so wrong that fight like this is getting sanctioned ,Bellew maight get hurt.

[BWC]

Just a side note, I think the boxing world took a long look at the UFC and the huge year they had in 2016 and it kicked them in their collective behinds to get stuff moving. Complacency never breeds success..

[b00g13man]

I'm not mad at all.