Fighter of the Year Nominations

[Ruthless-RKO]

Just to name some..

Terence Crawford

Sor Rungvisai

Gennady Golovkin

Vasyl Lomachenko

Anthony Joshua

Mikey Garcia

Name others..

[Mexi-Box]

Sor Rungvisai so far, at this moment. My pick would be Estrada if he beats Sor Rungvisai, though. Crawford and Lomachenko don't have a win equivalent to Rungvisai or Chocolatito.

Nevermind, I just remember that Sor Rungvisai/Estrada won't be this year. Okay, it's hands down Sor Rungvisai then.

[Jip]

Winner of lom rig

[gilgamesh]

Winner of lom rig

They'll definitely be a strong candidate. Especially if one of them wins in lopsided fashion.

[Mexi-Box]

Winner of lom rig

How? Only Rigodoneaux winning will be better than what Sor Rungvisai did. Lomachenko and Crawford are completely out of the discussion. Golovkin would be in the discussion if he officially got a win over Canelo.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Winner of lom rig

How? Only Rigodoneaux winning will be better than what Sor Rungvisai did. Lomachenko and Crawford are completely out of the discussion. Golovkin would be in the discussion if he officially got a win over Canelo.

Why are they out? Is it because of the opposition?

[Thomastearns]

They are certainly not out of the equation. Things can change fast in boxing and if Rigo wins in style, who would argue?

Personally, so far though, I'd go for AJ. That Klitschko fight was a classic. Afterwards I almost felt as though I'd been in the ring myself!

[Mexi-Box]

Winner of lom rig

How? Only Rigodoneaux winning will be better than what Sor Rungvisai did. Lomachenko and Crawford are completely out of the discussion. Golovkin would be in the discussion if he officially got a win over Canelo.

Why are they out? Is it because of the opposition?

Felix Diaz and Indongo are complete nobodies in terms of p4p achievements. I'm not sure if you can even put Indongo as one of Crawford's top 5 best wins.

Compare that to having a win over an ATG like Chocolatito. Lomachenko beating Rigondeaux would be a very good win, but we can't forget that Lomachenko is dragging him up 2 weight classes. Now, Rigondeaux beating Lomachenko is a different story altogether. That would be a huge upsets and one of the greatest wins in quite some time. Easily, Rigondeaux beating Lomachenko would surpass Sor Rungvisai's win over Chocolatito.

Wins over Diaz/Indongo<Klitschko<Rigondeaux<Chocolatito.

[Mexi-Box]

They are certainly not out of the equation. Things can change fast in boxing and if Rigo wins in style, who would argue?

Personally, so far though, I'd go for AJ. That Klitschko fight was a classic. Afterwards I almost felt as though I'd been in the ring myself!

Competition-wise, yes they are! AJ is also completely out of the equation. Beating a guy coming from retirement and off a loss isn't what makes someone a FoTY.

Rungvisai pulling off a major upset over an ATG in a razor-close fight and then knocking him out in the rematch. Only thing that would come close to this is if Golovkin had an official win over Canelo and Rigondeaux upsets Lomachenko. Discounting those two, no one is touching Sor Rungvisai's accomplishment. Anyone arguing differently is completely clueless.

[Badhusker]

Just to name some..

Terence Crawford

Sor Rungvisai

Gennady Golovkin

Vasyl Lomachenko

Anthony Joshua

Mikey Garcia

Name others..

Why not wait until the end of the year before nominations? Just a thought.

With that said, I picked GGG with is "win" over Canelo for the fighter of the year. If you think Canelo won, well....that speaks volumes.

[Heretic]

Beating Canelo and Jacobs is hard to surpass

GGG for me

[Ruthless-RKO]

Just to name some..

Terence Crawford

Sor Rungvisai

Gennady Golovkin

Vasyl Lomachenko

Anthony Joshua

Mikey Garcia

Name others..

Why not wait until the end of the year before nominations? Just a thought.

We're in the last. It's just an idea to start thinking about what we've seen so far. Thread will still be here after Lom/Rig fight. so you can always comment afterwards.

[Tanzio]

They are certainly not out of the equation. Things can change fast in boxing and if Rigo wins in style, who would argue?

Personally, so far though, I'd go for AJ. That Klitschko fight was a classic. Afterwards I almost felt as though I'd been in the ring myself!

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3G should be right there but for the gift draw to Gingerhead. If Rigo defeats Lomassiah it puts him right there also. But AJ by KTFO over WKlit after that back and forth will likely get him fighter of the year and it should probably also be fight of the year given that it will be remembered as one of the greatest HW fights of all time (no matter what some on here think).

[Impractical Poster]

Sor takes it for me.

Maybe breakout fighter of the year would be more fitting, though.

[The Asleep Lamps]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

[Cent0089]

For now, definitely Terrence Crawford. If Lomachenko can decisively beat Rigo, he will take it

[Ruthless-RKO]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

Why have you never posted in 2 years?

[Tanzio]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

Welcome, but you need to be figuratively slapped back into reality. Chocolatito just went a weight class too far. Rungvisai just proved it, barely the first fight.

3G should have Ws over the two best fighters in his division; both P4Pers.

AJ defeated the best HW of this millennium, so far, in an epic foty candidate war that will be remembered longer than any othe fight in this year of many big fights.

[jamamb]

rigo should win it if he beats loma. to me that would p4p be best win by far. ya the thai beat roman but i feel roman had over stretched his weight to a point where it means much less p4p. he also had a bad style for giving away size and strength. probably moot though because i feel rigo will be clearly beaten.

also there are some less radar guys doing well. ryan burnett unified vs okay opponents. ken shiro has had a standout year and can make it even better. milan melindo won title by knocking out 3x champ yaegisha in 1, defended vs recent champ budler, now going back to japan this year to try and unify vs another japanese champion. true that titles dont necessarily mean much these days but all 3 of these opponents were or recently were top 10 and are solid. i feel, by division, if melindo does that he may have the best rounded resume of the year though true none of those guys are elite p4p talents.

also nery with a really good year but failed dat ped test. berchelt good year too. wouldve been perhaps strongest contender if salido had gone ahead and hed won that.

[The Asleep Lamps]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

Welcome, but you need to be figuratively slapped back into reality. Chocolatito just went a weight class too far. Rungvisai just proved it, barely the first fight.

3G should have Ws over the two best fighters in his division; both P4Pers.

AJ defeated the best HW of this millennium, so far, in an epic foty candidate war that will be remembered longer than any othe fight in this year of many big fights.

You bring up a good point which is that I don't consider his bout against Canelo a win either.

[The Asleep Lamps]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

Why have you never posted in 2 years?

I just made this account to look at boxing records when boxrec started flagging you for looking at too many pages. I've spent numerous hours on this website looking at records but not at the forum.

[jujigatame]

Should be Rungvisai or possibly Golovkin. I'm sure some people will call for Lomachenko when he beats Rigo, but IMO the Marriaga win was worthless and Rigo is past his prime and jumping 2 weight classes.

[Lackeos]

Miguel Berchelt should not be a mere afterthought in this discussion. He beat Franciscos Vargas and Takashi Miura this year, and his boxrec rating more than quintupled in 2017. That is easily better than the 2017 accomplishments of Crawford, Garcia, and Golovkin. In fact, I am not certain that Crawford, Garcia, and Golovkin are better FotY candidates than Andre Ward, Leo Santa Cruz, and Ken Shiro.

Otherwise, I consider Sor Rungvisai (Wangek), Lomachenko - Rigondeaux winner, and Anthony Joshua to also be major candidates.

[Heretic]

Hi this is my first post. Are you people forgetting GGG struggled with Jacobs? More votes are needed for Rungvisai.

Are you forgetting that Rungvisai struggled with Roman in the first fight?

Jacobs vs GGG was really close fight. Close enough that in todays boxing the winner was actually decided by the economics.