The Ring magazine Fight of the Year

Template:Use mdy dates The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has named a Fight of the Year since 1945.

Fights of the Year by decade

1940s

• 1945Template:Snds Rocky Graziano KO 10 Red Cochrane I
• 1946Template:Snds Tony Zale KO 6 Rocky Graziano I
• 1947Template:Snds Rocky Graziano KO 6 Tony Zale II
• 1948Template:Snds Marcel Cerdan KO 12 Tony Zale
• 1949Template:Snds Willie Pep W 15 Sandy Saddler II

1950s

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Sugar Ray Robinson being held aloft by Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio in 1965. Basilio engaged in five straight Fight of the Year contests from 1955 to 1959, with three of them contested against either Robinson or Fullmer.

• 1950Template:Snds Jake LaMotta KO 15 Laurent Dauthuille II
• 1951Template:Snds Jersey Joe Walcott KO 7 Ezzard Charles III
• 1952Template:Snds Rocky Marciano KO 13 Jersey Joe Walcott I
• 1953Template:Snds Rocky Marciano KO 11 Roland La Starza II
• 1954Template:Snds Rocky Marciano KO 8 Ezzard Charles II
• 1955Template:Snds Carmen Basilio TKO 12 Tony DeMarco II
• 1956Template:Snds Carmen Basilio TKO 9 Johnny Saxton II
• 1957Template:Snds Carmen Basilio W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson I
• 1958Template:Snds Sugar Ray Robinson W 15 Carmen Basilio II
• 1959Template:Snds Gene Fullmer KO 14 Carmen Basilio I

1960s

• 1960Template:Snds Floyd Patterson KO 5 Ingemar Johansson II
• 1961Template:Snds Joe Brown W 15 Dave Charnley II
• 1962Template:Snds Joey Giardello W 10 Henry Hank II
• 1963Template:Snds Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) W 10 Doug Jones
• 1964Template:Snds Muhammad Ali KO 7 Sonny Liston I
• 1965Template:Snds Floyd Patterson W 12 George Chuvalo
• 1966Template:Snds José Torres W 15 Eddie Cotton
• 1967Template:Snds Nino Benvenuti W 15 Emile Griffith I
• 1968Template:Snds Dick Tiger W 10 Frank DePaula
• 1969Template:Snds Joe Frazier KO 7 Jerry Quarry I

1970s

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Muhammad Ali was involved in more Fight of the Year contests than any other boxer in history; six spanning almost two decades.

• 1970Template:Snds Carlos Monzón KO 12 Nino Benvenuti I
• 1971Template:Snds Joe Frazier W 15 Muhammad Ali I
• 1972Template:Snds Bob Foster KO 14 Chris Finnegan
• 1973Template:Snds George Foreman TKO 2 Joe Frazier I
• 1974Template:Snds Muhammad Ali KO 8 George Foreman
• 1975Template:Snds Muhammad Ali TKO 14 Joe Frazier III
• 1976Template:Snds George Foreman KO 5 Ron Lyle
• 1977Template:Snds Jimmy Young W 12 George Foreman
• 1978Template:Snds Leon Spinks W 15 Muhammad Ali I
• 1979Template:Snds Danny Lopez KO 15 Mike Ayala

1980s

• 1980Template:Snds Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 14 Yaqui Lopez II
• 1981Template:Snds Sugar Ray Leonard TKO 14 Thomas Hearns I
• 1982Template:Snds Bobby Chacon UD 15 Rafael Limon IV
• 1983Template:Snds Bobby Chacon W 12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards II
• 1984Template:Snds José Luis Ramírez KO 4 Edwin Rosario II
• 1985Template:Snds Marvelous Marvin Hagler TKO 3 Thomas Hearns
• 1986Template:Snds Stevie Cruz W 15 Barry McGuigan
• 1987Template:Snds Sugar Ray Leonard W 12 Marvelous Marvin Hagler
• 1988Template:Snds Tony Lopez W 12 Rocky Lockridge I
• 1989Template:Snds Roberto Durán W 12 Iran Barkley

1990s

• 1990Template:Snds Julio César Chávez TKO 12 Meldrick Taylor I
• 1991Template:Snds Robert Quiroga W 12 Akeem Anifowoshe
• 1992Template:Snds Riddick Bowe W 12 Evander Holyfield I
• 1993Template:Snds Michael Carbajal KO 7 Humberto González I
• 1994Template:Snds Jorge Castro KO 9 John David Jackson I
• 1995Template:Snds Saman Sorjaturong TKO 7 Humberto González
• 1996Template:Snds Evander Holyfield TKO 11 Mike Tyson I
• 1997Template:Snds Arturo Gatti KO 5 Gabriel Ruelas
• 1998Template:Snds Ivan Robinson W 10 Arturo Gatti I
• 1999Template:Snds Paulie Ayala W 12 Johnny Tapia I

2000s

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Arturo Gatti at the post-fight press conference after his third fight with Micky Ward, 2003

• 2000Template:Snds Erik Morales W 12 Marco Antonio Barrera I
• 2001Template:Snds Micky Ward W 10 Emanuel Augustus
• 2002Template:Snds Micky Ward W 10 Arturo Gatti I
• 2003Template:Snds Arturo Gatti W 10 Micky Ward III
• 2004Template:Snds Marco Antonio Barrera W 12 Erik Morales III
• 2005Template:Snds Diego Corrales TKO 10 José Luis Castillo
• 2006Template:Snds Somsak Sithchatchawal TKO 10 Mahyar Monshipour
• 2007Template:Snds Israel Vázquez TKO 6 Rafael Márquez II
• 2008Template:Snds Israel Vázquez W 12 Rafael Márquez III
• 2009Template:Snds Juan Manuel Márquez TKO 9 Juan Diaz I

2010s

• 2010Template:Snds Giovani Segura KO 8 Ivan Calderon I
• 2011Template:Snds Victor Ortiz W 12 Andre Berto I
• 2012Template:Snds Juan Manuel Márquez KO 6 Manny Pacquiao IV
• 2013Template:Snds Timothy Bradley W 12 Ruslan Provodnikov
• 2014Template:Snds Lucas Matthysse KO 11 John Molina, Jr.
• 2015Template:Snds Francisco Vargas TKO 9 Takashi Miura
• 2016Template:Snds Francisco Vargas D 12 Orlando Salido
• 2017Template:Snds Anthony Joshua TKO 11 Wladimir Klitschko
• 2018Template:Snds Canelo Álvarez W 12 Gennady Golovkin II
• 2019Template:Snds Naoya Inoue W 12 Nonito Donaire

2020s

• 2020Template:Snds Jose Zepeda KO 5 Ivan Baranchyk
• 2021Template:Snds Tyson Fury KO 11 Deontay Wilder III
• 2022Template:Snds Leigh Wood TKO 12 Michael Conlan
• 2023Template:Snds Luis Nery KO 11 Azat Hovhannisyan
• 2024Template:Snds Raymond Ford TKO 12 Otabek Kholmatov

See also

• Ali–Frazier Award, an equivalent by the Boxing Writers Association of America

References

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External links

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