FOTY controversies?

[squiggy]

Just a curiosity: Have any of you ever really disagreed with Ring Magazine's choices for Fight of the Year? (Or for that matter Fighter of the Year, Round of the Year etc.?)

[I Feel Fine]

Tunney won it in a year where all he did was beat Heeney, Louis won it in the year he lost to Schmeling, Ali should have won the award in 66 but he probably shouldn't have won it in 78. There are a lot of examples you can disagree with for Fighter of the Year. Fight of the Year probably more so.

[squiggy]

You're right, Ali was named fighter of '78, presumably just for being the first to get the heavyweight title a third time. Maybe it was harder to see at the time that Leon Spinks really wasn't anything at all.
I don't know everything that was going on that year, but I see that Holmes beat Shavers, Norton and Evangelista in '78, which is more impressive than splitting two fights with Spinks.

[kovit]

For the upset of the year in 1977 Jimmy Young over George Foreman supposed to win that award but they vote Jorge Lujan over Alfonso Zamora what's up with that. Foreman is the bigger name than Zamora.

[I Feel Fine]

You're right, Ali was named fighter of '78, presumably just for being the first to get the heavyweight title a third time. Maybe it was harder to see at the time that Leon Spinks really wasn't anything at all.
I don't know everything that was going on that year, but I see that Holmes beat Shavers, Norton and Evangelista in '78, which is more impressive than splitting two fights with Spinks.

I agree, I would probably have given it to Holmes or someone else. But, on the other side of that, Ali should have won it in '66 but Ring Magazine would not give it to him because of the draft controversy and the politics of the time.

[Ezzard]

Don Curry sharing it with Hagler was a joke. Curry did not deserve it.

[dempseyfire]

For the upset of the year in 1977 Jimmy Young over George Foreman supposed to win that award but they vote Jorge Lujan over Alfonso Zamora what's up with that. Foreman is the bigger name than Zamora.

They made Foreman-Young FOTY which is certainly was not.That same year had Saad Muhammad-Marvin Johnson 1 which blows Young-Foreman out of the water. Hell, I think Ali-Shavers was better than Young-Foreman.

[granberry]

For the upset of the year in 1977 Jimmy Young over George Foreman supposed to win that award but they vote Jorge Lujan over Alfonso Zamora what's up with that. Foreman is the bigger name than Zamora.

Easy answer to that.

Jimmy Young was not supposed to exist.

And not a single halfwit posting here knows that Nat Fleischer died in the early 1970's and from that moment what remained of the RING went down the toilet immediately as it became the plaything of incompetent Bert Sugar, Steve Farhood, and then rabid lefty Nigel Collins.

The RING magazine ended when Fleischer died.

[BoxBuzz]

For the upset of the year in 1977 Jimmy Young over George Foreman supposed to win that award but they vote Jorge Lujan over Alfonso Zamora what's up with that. Foreman is the bigger name than Zamora.

Easy answer to that.

Jimmy Young was not supposed to exist.

And not a single halfwit posting here knows that Nat Fleischer died in the early 1970's and from that moment what remained of the RING went down the toilet immediately as it became the plaything of incompetent Bert Sugar, Steve Farhood, and then rabid lefty Nigel Collins.

The RING magazine ended when Fleischer died.

I don't emphatically disagree with this.....will this qualify me for 3/4 wit?

[Flump]

Didn't they have Foreman-Frazier as fight of the year in 73? Not exactly a great see-saw battle was it.

[I Feel Fine]

Fights of the Year don't have to be competitive, though they usually are.