Oleksandr Usyk leads the way in Ring Awards
The unbeaten Ukrainian wins the Fighter of the Year award for his two victories over Tyson Fury, while Gabriela Fundora picks up the top prize for women's boxing.
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BoxingScene roundtable: Who will be considered the pound-for-pound king in 12 months’ time?
The BoxingScene writers try to predict boxing's future pound-for-pound number one
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Fighting Words: Will 2025 bring more undisputed champions?
Four new undisputed champions were crowned in 2024 – two men and two women, ranging from the queen of the strawweights to the king of the heavyweights. Can we expect to see more in 2025?
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Who will be the Fighter of 2025? BoxingScene contributors make their picks
This year it was Oleksandr Usyk who dominated the Fighter of the Year stakes but who will win the gong at the end of 2025?
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BoxingScene roundtable: Will we still be talking about Usyk, Fury, Joshua and Wilder at the end of 2025?
Logic dictates that we're rapidly closing in on the end of the current heavyweight era, as each of Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder edge towards middle age. But might we still be talking about them this time next year?
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It’s Unanimous: Oleksandr Usyk is BoxingScene’s 2024 Fighter of the Year
As 2024 closed out, we were all talking about Oleksandr Usyk. The southpaw Ukrainian maestro has been unbeatable as a pro.
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Today vs. 25 years ago: Which heavyweight division was superior?
As 2024 gives way to 2025, we’re in an interesting place with these modern heavyweights – a place somewhat similar to where we were exactly 25 years ago, when 1999 became 2000 and all of our computers continued functioning despite great fears to the contrary.
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Ten takeaways from boxing in 2024
Here are 10 lessons (or things) that one boxing writer took away from the last year of boxing.
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Cross his heart: Usyk-Fury I is Fight of the Year
What we want each time we sit down to watch a main-event prizefight is something historic, something violent, something unforgettable. With stakes higher than any other bout of the past generation – the undisputed heavyweight title of the world – Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury delivered upon that promise in their first meeting, and that May 18 split-decision triumph by Usyk is BoxingScene’s Fight of the Year.
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Ranking the decades in heavyweight boxing
According to at least one BoxingScene commenter, we are presently in the midst of the “worst heavyweight era ever.” Not all opinions are good ones, of course, and brief recourse to a history book – and to the series of heavyweight main events to which we’ve been treated over the past five years – should be sufficient to disabuse anyone of that particular viewpoint.
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