Ring Magazine Defunct Awards

As selected by The Ring magazine in each year. The Progress of the Year award went to the boxer who made the most significant progress during the preceding twelve months. In other words, the fighter who made the most impressive jump from comparative obscurity to international prominence.

Progress of the Year	Prospect of the Year	Manager of the Year
1953: Nino Valdes 1954: Pascual Perez 1955: Chuck Spieser 1956: Eddie Machen 1957: Roy Harris 1958: Don Jordan 1959: Charley Scott 1960: Giulio Rinaldi 1961-1963: No Award 1964: Vicente Saldivar 1965: Alan Rudkin 1966: Joe Frazier 1967: Jimmy Ellis 1968: Shozo Saijo 1969: Mac Foster 1970: George Foreman 1971: Chris Finnegan 1972: Bert Nabalatan 1973: Santos Luis Rivera 1974: Soo Hwan Hong 1975: Mike Colbert 1976: Ruben Castillo 1977: Eddie Gazo 1978: Leon Spinks 1979: Chan-Hee Park 1980-1982: No Award 1983: John Mugabi 1984: Francisco Quiroz 1985: Lonnie Smith 1986: Samart Payakaroon 1987: Kelvin Seabrooks 1988: Michael Nunn	1983: Kenny Baysmore 1984: Mark Breland 1985: Mike Tyson 1986: Michael Williams 1987: Engels Pedroza 1988: Michael Moorer 1989-2010: No Award 2011: Gary Russell Jr. 2012: Keith Thurman 2013: Vasyl Lomachenko 2014: Anthony Joshua 2015: Takuma Inoue 2016: Erickson Lubin 2017: Jaime Munguia 2018: Teofimo Lopez 2019: Vergil Ortiz	1983: Bennie Georgino 2011: Al Haymon 2012: Al Haymon (2)