Ring Magazine Boxer of the Year
Ring Magazine Boxer of the Year | |
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Awarded by Ring Magazine | |
Art | Boxing award |
Data | |
First awarded | 1922 |
Awards | 99 |
Precedence |
Ring Magazine has been awarding the World Boxer of the Year award every year since 1922 .
Boxer of the year after decade
1920s
year | boxer | nationality | annotation |
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1922 | Harry Greb | United States | won the US light heavyweight title by a unanimous victory over Gene Tunney |
1923 | Jack Dempsey | United States | defended his world heavyweight title against Tommy Gibbons and Luis Ángel Firpo |
1924 | Harry Greb (2) | United States | defended his world middleweight title against Johnny Wilson , Fay Keizer and Ted Moore |
1925 | Paul Berlenbach | United States | won the light heavyweight title by beating Mike McTigue on points at Yankee Stadium in New York City ; defended the title against Jimmy Slattery , Emilio Solomon and Jack Delaney |
1926 | Gene Tunney | United States | won the heavyweight world title by a unanimous victory over Jack Dempsey in front of more than 120,000 spectators at Sesquicentennial Stadium in Philadelphia |
1927 | Mickey Walker | United States | defended his middleweight world title by knocking out Tommy Milligan ; also won his other four fights that year, including against Paul Berlenbach, Boxer of the Year 1925 |
1928 | Gene Tunney (2) | United States | defended his world heavyweight title against Tom Heeney; resigned a few days after the fight |
1929 | Tommy Loughran | United States | defended his light heavyweight title against Jim Braddock , later world heavyweight champion and the boxer of 1927 Mickey Walker , lost the fight for the US heavyweight title against Jack Sharkey |
1930s
year | boxer | nationality | annotation | |
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1930 | Max Schmeling | German Empire | became the first German and only the second European to win the heavyweight world title by winning a disqualification against Jack Sharkey | |
1931 | Tommy Loughran (2) | United States | ||
1932 | Jack Sharkey | United States | defeated Max Schmeling in a controversial fight on points and thus became the new world heavyweight champion | |
1933 | no awards | |||
1934 | Tony Canzoneri | United States | ||
Barney Ross | United States | defended his light welterweight title five times; also won the welterweight championship against Jimmy McLarnin , but lost the rematch | ||
1935 | Barney Ross (2) | United States | defended his light welterweight title against Henry Woods and Frankie Klick , then dropped that title; won the third duel with Jimmy McLarnin unanimously on points and was thus again world champion in welterweight | |
1936 | Joe Louis | United States | defeated Jack Sharkey , among others , but lost to Max Schmeling | |
1937 | Henry Armstrong | United States | won all of his 27 professional fights that year; Knocked out Petey Sarron and became world featherweight champion, but dropped the title shortly after the fight in order to fight in light and welterweight can | |
1938 | Joe Louis (2) | United States | won his title defense of the heavyweight title against Nathan Mann , Harry Thomas and Max Schmeling prematurely; He knocked Schmeling out in the first round after 2:04 minutes and was celebrated as a hero by the Afro-American population | |
1939 | Joe Louis (3) | United States | his title defense against John Henry Lewis , Jack Roper , Tony Galento and Bob Pastor prematurely |
1940s
year | boxer | nationality | annotation |
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1940 | Billy Conn | United States | defended his light heavyweight title against Gus Lesnevich |
1941 | Joe Louis (4) | United States | defended his world title seven times and won all seven fights prematurely, one of them by disqualifying his opponent; in the fight against Billy Conn he was even behind on points before knocking him out in the thirteenth round |
1942 | Sugar Ray Robinson | United States | won, among other things, the first meeting with Jake LaMotta |
1943 | Fred Apostoli | United States | the former middleweight world champion was named boxer of the year, although he did not complete a single fight that year, as he was fighting in World War II at the time |
1944 | Beau Jack | United States | lost his world championship lightweight title in a narrow points defeat to Bob Montgomery , from whom he recaptured the title in 1943 after Montgomery previously took his belt; in a total of fourth meeting of the two in August 1944, Beau Jack won, but the world title was not at stake in this fight |
1945 | Willie Pep | United States | defended his featherweight title |
1946 | Tony Zale | United States | Comeback four years after losing to Billy Conn; his knockout win against Rocky Graziano in the fight for the middleweight world title was named fight of the year by Ring Magazine |
1947 | Gus Lesnevich | United States | defended his light heavyweight title against Billy Fox through TKO |
1948 | Ike Williams | United States | Defending his lightweight title against Enrique Bolanos, Beau Jack and Jesse Flores |
1949 | Ezzard Charles | United States | won the vacant NBA heavyweight title against Jersey Joe Walcott ; defended the title against Gus Lesnevich and Pat Valentino |
1950s
year | boxer | nationality | annotation |
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1950 | Ezzard Charles (2) | United States | defended his NBA title against Freddie Beshore ; won against Joe Louis by a clear point victory and became the generally recognized world heavyweight champion |
1951 | Sugar Ray Robinson (2) | United States | defended his middleweight title against Jake LaMotta by TKO, then lost the title after a point loss to Randy Turpin and recaptured it two months later with a TKO win |
1952 | Rocky Marciano | United States | conquered the world heavyweight title against Jersey Joe Walcott , although he was on the ground in the first round and was clearly behind on points. He was able to knock Walcott out in the thirteenth round; the fight became fight of the year 1952. |
1953 | Carl Olson | United States | first won the vacant US middleweight title against Paddy Young and then the vacant world middleweight title against Randy Turpin |
1954 | Rocky Marciano (2) | United States | two victories in defending his world title against Ezzard Charles , the first by a unanimous victory on points, in the second victory he knocked Charles out in the eighth round, but had to fear a fight break before he had suffered a badly bleeding nose injury |
1955 | Rocky Marciano (3) | United States | won his two title defenses against Don Cockell and Archie Moore by TKO and knockout in the ninth round; in the fight against the reigning light heavyweight champion Archie Moore, he was in the second round on the ground, but brought Moore himself down five times; resigned after the fight against Archie Moore at the height of his career and thus ended his career as the first world heavyweight champion undefeated |
1956 | Floyd Patterson | United States | won the fight for the vacant world heavyweight title by knocking out Archie Moore |
1957 | Carmen Basilio | United States | first defended his world welterweight title against Johnny Saxton in their third meeting and then won the middleweight title against Sugar Ray Robinson by a narrow point win; the fight against Robinson became fight of the year 1957 |
1958 | Ingemar Johansson | Sweden | remained European heavyweight champion and knocked out the hitherto undefeated Eddiemachen in the first round; first non-American since Max Schmeling, who became boxer of the year |
1959 | Ingemar Johansson (2) | Sweden | beat Floyd Patterson in the heavyweight championship fight by knockout in the third round, had him down a total of seven times in this round |
1960s
year | boxer | nationality | annotation | |
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1960 | Floyd Patterson (2) | United States | conquered the heavyweight world champion belt from Ingemar Johansson with a knockout victory in round five; Patterson was the first to win the heavyweight title a second time | |
1961 | Joe Brown | United States | defended his lightweight world title against Dave Charnley and Bert Somodio ; the fight against Charnley became fight of the year 1961 | |
1962 | Dick Tiger | Nigeria | won the vacant WBA middleweight title by beating Gene Fullmer on points | |
1963 | Cassius Clay | United States | Victories against Charley Powell, Doug Jones and Henry Cooper; his point win over Jones was fight of the year | |
1964 | Emile Griffith | American Virgin Islands | defended his WBA and WBC welterweight titles against Luis Rodríguez and Brian Curvis | |
1965 | Dick Tiger (2) | Nigeria | regained his WBA and WBC belts from Joey Giardello, to whom he lost the title in 1963 | |
1966 | no awards | |||
1967 | Joe Frazier | United States | ||
1968 | Nino Benvenuti | Italy | got the WBA and WBC middleweight titles from Emile Griffith back with a points win and defended the title against Don Fullmer at the end of the year | |
1969 | José Nápoles | Cuba | won the WBA and WBC welterweight titles from Curtis Cokes ; defeated Cokes also in the rematch, in both fights Cokes gave up, and later defended the title against Emile Griffith |
1970s
- 1970 - Joe Frazier (2)
- 1971 - Joe Frazier (3)
- 1972 - Muhammad Ali (2) & Carlos Monzón
- 1973 - George Foreman
- 1974 - Muhammad Ali (3)
- 1975 - Muhammad Ali (4)
- 1976 - George Foreman (2)
- 1977 - Carlos Zárate
- 1978 - Muhammad Ali (5)
- 1979 - Sugar Ray Leonard
1980s
- 1980 - Thomas Hearns
- 1981 - Sugar Ray Leonard (2) & Salvador Sánchez
- 1982 - Larry Holmes
- 1983 - Marvin Hagler
- 1984 - Thomas Hearns (2)
- 1985 - Marvin Hagler (2) & Donald Curry
- 1986 - Mike Tyson
- 1987 - Evander Holyfield
- 1988 - Mike Tyson (2)
- 1989 - Pernell Whitaker
1990s
- 1990 - Julio César Chavez
- 1991 - James Toney
- 1992 - Riddick Bowe
- 1993 - Michael Carbajal
- 1994 - Roy Jones junior
- 1995 - Óscar de la Hoya
- 1996 - Evander Holyfield (2)
- 1997 - Evander Holyfield (3)
- 1998 - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- 1999 - Paulie Ayala
2000s
- 2000 - Félix Trinidad
- 2001 - Bernard Hopkins
- 2002 - Vernon Forrest
- 2003 - James Toney (2)
- 2004 - Glen Johnson
- 2005 - Ricky Hatton
- 2006 - Manny Pacquiao
- 2007 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2)
- 2008 - Manny Pacquiao (2)
- 2009 - Manny Pacquiao (3)
2010s
- 2010 - Sergio Gabriel Martínez
- 2011 - Andre Ward
- 2012 - Nonito Donaire
- 2013 - Adonis Stevenson
- 2014 - Sergey Kovalev
- 2015 - Tyson Fury
- 2016 - Carl Frampton
- 2017 - Vasyl Lomachenko
- 2018 - Oleksandr Usyk
- 2019 - Saúl Álvarez