Fighter of the Year 2024

[DrDuke]

Usyk?

[Ruthless-RKO]

No doubt.

Again, a lot of top boxers fought only once.
Some didn't even. PBC guys. shame.

Bam Rodriguez had a good year

[DrDuke]

Gotta be the second grab by Usyk btw. Firstly in 2018.

[joshj909]

Usyk
Ramirez
Beterbiev
Catterall

[giacomino]

Oscar Collazo
Beterbiev
Bam Rodriguez

[DrDuke]

Not Beterbiev, not with that kind of a win. If they scored for Bivol, everyone would also agree with that.

Usyk won Fury more decisively for the first time, also for the undisputed championship, and he repeated it.

[NazNaci1]

Oscar Collazo
Beterbiev
Bam Rodriguez

Uysk, I would say.
Bam Bam is always good value.
Beterbiev , on paper, for a big win.
Oscar Collazo for his wins and sheer activity. A rare thing, nowadays.

[klitoris]

I would say Usyk, because he beat the other consensus #1 HW twice in a year, but Dubois honestly deserves it just as much for beating undefeated Hrgovic and Joshua in one year.
Also shoutout to Bam and Inoue. Collazo at Minimumweight as well.

[felinoboxing]

Usyk wins.
For me it was Usyk, twice against the other best in his weight. Inoue, his KO over Luis Nery, a bigger guy, has weight. Bam has a clearly aged Estrada. Furthermore, his association with SNAC makes me suspect his extraordinary physical performance. Beterviev over Bivol was close, I think the victory could have gone either way.

[ordsalloriginator]

1 Oleksandr Usyk
2 Artur Beterbiev
3 Gilberto Ramirez
4 Nick Ball
5 Anthony Cacace
6 Daniel Dubois
7 Bakhram Murtazaliev
8 Jack Catterall
9 Jesse Rodriguez
10 Jai Opetaia

[giacomino]

I would say Usyk, because he beat the other consensus #1 HW twice in a year, but Dubois honestly deserves it just as much for beating undefeated Hrgovic and Joshua in one year.
Also shoutout to Bam and Inoue. Collazo at Minimumweight as well.

Collazo also just unified by dominating an undefeated beltholder who’d held his belt for 10 years.

[gregregegg]

Usyk wins that by a mile.

Bert is a very clear 2nd if you think he beat Bivol

DDD 3rd.

Depending on my mood I can happily swap 2nd/3rd as I think Bivol probably won…

[margaret thatcher]

bam just barely missed out on having edwards in his 2024, if it had been 16 days later he'd have edwards, jf estrada, guevvera all in 2024. woulda given anyone a run for their money with that year.

similar story inoue, he unified vs tapales with only 5 days left in 2023. as it was, with that coming in 2023 and inoue missing his december 2024 fight, i think he isnt in the convo seriously this year, though beating nery was very nice.

collazo a really good year, although the first two opponents were too weak for me to edge it to him. in fact knockout freshmart was the first non knockover he'd faced since winning the title from jerusalem. but 3 fights with at least one top opponent for the weight in there makes him an honorable mention

i thought bert beat bivol fairly so i dont really hold the closeness of the fight against him. the win over smith was decent too.

canelo taking 0s of berlanga and munguia was nice, though defo not up with some of the other years, and mung win lost some lustre already.

usyk of course with his year becoming undisputed king, though i do like fighters to beat more than 1 opponent. that said id still have to rate a second win over fury as better than, say, collazo's can crushing

[margaret thatcher]

I would say Usyk, because he beat the other consensus #1 HW twice in a year, but Dubois honestly deserves it just as much for beating undefeated Hrgovic and Joshua in one year.
Also shoutout to Bam and Inoue. Collazo at Minimumweight as well.

Collazo also just unified by dominating an undefeated beltholder who’d held his belt for 10 years.

its a shame his other opponents since becoming champ were so crap, he coulda had a serious claim to this one had he beaten a better opponent earlier this year. the 3 he beat in between winning a title and unifying vs freshmart were hardly even fringe contenders in an already shallow division

also doesnt help that the win was buried on an undercard and hardly anyone talked about it

[giacomino]

I would say Usyk, because he beat the other consensus #1 HW twice in a year, but Dubois honestly deserves it just as much for beating undefeated Hrgovic and Joshua in one year.
Also shoutout to Bam and Inoue. Collazo at Minimumweight as well.

Collazo also just unified by dominating an undefeated beltholder who’d held his belt for 10 years.

its a shame his other opponents since becoming champ were so crap, he coulda had a serious claim to this one had he beaten a better opponent earlier this year. the 3 he beat in between winning a title and unifying vs freshmart were hardly even fringe contenders in an already shallow division

also doesnt help that the win was buried on an undercard and hardly anyone talked about it

Nobody talks about minimumweight fights anyway. But yeah, I was bragging on him about his last fight, not the two crap opponents he beat up earlier in the year

[gilgamesh]

Usyk is Fighter of the Year for sure.

Dubois could easily get Comeback of the Year. At the start of January 2024, I don't think any Boxing fan would've predicted the tremendous success that Dubois had in that year. He'd had a few setbacks in recent years, and was starting to be thought of as a guy that just wasn't quite up to snuff at the top level, and then he pulls off 2 upsets over 2 high level opponents in back to back upsets. So Comeback of the Year for Dubois.

Fighter of the Year though is Usyk.

[Perkin Warbeck]

Usyk is fighter of the year for 2024.

Honorable mention to Rodriguez, Opetaia and Beterbiev.

Prospect of the year is Itauma.

[Evander]

Not everyone is entirely convinced Usyk won this fight.
I'm doing a forensic, my sketchy scientific results will be published next few days in the form of a scorecard

[margaret thatcher]

Not everyone is entirely convinced Usyk won this fight.
I'm doing a forensic, my sketchy scientific results will be published next few days in the form of a scorecard

all 3 judges, the vast majority of fans, and my own card is good enough for me, 2-0 baby

[joshj909]

Not everyone is entirely convinced Usyk won this fight.
I'm doing a forensic, my sketchy scientific results will be published next few days in the form of a scorecard

Don't bother mate. Your forensic scorecard will hold no weight against everyone else with a pair of eyes and common sense.

[Lenny Cravats]

Not everyone is entirely convinced Usyk won this fight.
I'm doing a forensic, my sketchy scientific results will be published next few days in the form of a scorecard

It would be hard not to be.

I was scoring as I watched, the commentary on TNT was praising Fury for everything. Even watching that, I had it to Usyk by 2.
After watching it again on YouTube (the version for non-English speakers, the commentary volume is practically muted) I scored it the same, but could easily see it wider for Usyk, whereas I think my card was as legitimately generous to Fury as you could be.

Fury getting that fight would have been an awful decision.

[JamesPhilips]

Usyk is Fighter of the Year for sure.

Dubois could easily get Comeback of the Year. At the start of January 2024, I don't think any Boxing fan would've predicted the tremendous success that Dubois had in that year. He'd had a few setbacks in recent years, and was starting to be thought of as a guy that just wasn't quite up to snuff at the top level, and then he pulls off 2 upsets over 2 high level opponents in back to back upsets. So Comeback of the Year for Dubois.

Fighter of the Year though is Usyk.

Dubois’s turnaround is one of the best for years

[joshj909]

Usyk is Fighter of the Year for sure.

Dubois could easily get Comeback of the Year. At the start of January 2024, I don't think any Boxing fan would've predicted the tremendous success that Dubois had in that year. He'd had a few setbacks in recent years, and was starting to be thought of as a guy that just wasn't quite up to snuff at the top level, and then he pulls off 2 upsets over 2 high level opponents in back to back upsets. So Comeback of the Year for Dubois.

Fighter of the Year though is Usyk.

Dubois’s turnaround is one of the best for years

If he goes on to beat Parker, his record of Miller, Hrgovic, Joshua and Parker is one of the best runs for the entire careers all active heavyweights. Hopefully he doesn't take any easy fights after than. Zhang/Kabayel or Bakole/Ajagba would amplify his record even more.

[tonyevs]

Usyk is fighter of the year for 2024.

Honorable mention to Rodriguez, Opetaia and Beterbiev.

Prospect of the year is Itauma.

Agreed.

Will be interesting how they try to develop Itauma. I think hard lessons have been learnt previously about needing the solid foundation of early tests before getting a world title.

[dogheart]

I Like Bam!