Harry Markson Award

Harry Markson Award

The Harry Markson Award, known alternatively as the Boxing Writers Association of America Fight of the Year Award, has been conferred annually since 2003 by the Boxing Writers Association of America on the fight, irrespective of the weight class or nationality of the fighters and of the nature of the fight, adjudged by the membership of the Association to have been the best in boxing in a given year.

Named for Harry Markson, a boxing promoter and publicist who served for five years the president of boxing operations at Madison Square Garden, garnered the BWAA's James J. Walker Award for "long and meritorious service" to boxing in 1963, earned induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992 [cite web |url=http://www.ibhof.com/markson.htm |title=Harry Markson |accessdate=2008-06-28 |publisher=International Boxing Hall of Fame] , the award is announced with other honors given by the BWAA at an annual awards dinner in the spring of the year following that for performance in which the award is given.

List of winners

ee also

*"The Ring" Fight of the Year
*Al Buck Award, given annually by the BWAA to the fighter adjudged to be best
*"The Ring" Fighter of the Year Award

References

External links

* [http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Boxing_Writers_Association_of_America_Fight_of_the_Year_Award List of award winners and winner biographies from] boxrec.com
* [http://www.bwaa.org/all_awards.htm List of award winners from the official site of the Boxing Writers Association of America]
* [http://www.ibhof.com/ibhfbwaa.htm List of BWAA awards from the official site] of the International Boxing Hall of Fame


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