Ring Magazine fighters of the year

Ring Magazine fighters of the year

Ring Magazine was established in 1922. Since 1928, it has named a fighter as fighter of the year, based on the magazine's writers' criteria. Here is a list of Ring Magazine's fighters of the year:

Fighters of the year by decade

1920s

* 1922 – Harry Greb
* 1923 – Jack Dempsey
* 1924 – Harry Greb
* 1925 – Paul Berlenbach
* 1926 – Gene Tunney
* 1927 – Mickey Walker
* 1928 - Gene Tunney
* 1929 - Tommy Loughran

1930s

* 1930 - Max Schmeling
* 1931 - Tommy Loughran
* 1932 - Jack Sharkey
* 1933 - No award was given
* 1934 - Tony Canzoneri & Barney Ross
* 1935 - Barney Ross
* 1936 - Joe Louis
* 1937 - Henry Armstrong
* 1938 - Joe Louis
* 1939 - Joe Louis

1940s

* 1940 - Billy Conn
* 1941 - Joe Louis
* 1942 - Sugar Ray Robinson
* 1943 - Fred Apostoli
* 1944 - Beau Jack
* 1945 - Willie Pep
* 1946 - Tony Zale
* 1947 - Gus Lesnevich
* 1948 - Ike Williams
* 1949 - Ezzard Charles

1950s

* 1950 - Ezzard Charles
* 1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson
* 1952 - Rocky Marciano
* 1953 - Bobo Olson
* 1954 - Rocky Marciano
* 1955 - Rocky Marciano
* 1956 - Floyd Patterson
* 1957 - Carmen Basilio
* 1958 - Ingemar Johansson
* 1959 - Ingemar Johansson

1960s

* 1960 - Floyd Patterson
* 1961 - Joe Brown
* 1962 - Dick Tiger
* 1963 - Cassius Clay
* 1964 - Emile Griffith
* 1965 - Dick Tiger
* 1966 - No award was given
* 1967 - Joe Frazier
* 1968 - Nino Benvenuti
* 1969 - Jose Napoles

1970s

* 1970 - Joe Frazier
* 1971 - Joe Frazier
* 1972 - Muhammad Ali & Carlos Monzon
* 1973 - George Foreman
* 1974 - Muhammad Ali
* 1975 - Muhammad Ali
* 1976 - George Foreman
* 1977 - Carlos Zarate
* 1978 - Muhammad Ali
* 1979 - Sugar Ray Leonard

1980s

* 1980 - Thomas Hearns
* 1981 - Sugar Ray Leonard & Salvador Sanchez
* 1982 - Larry Holmes
* 1983 - Marvin Hagler
* 1984 - Thomas Hearns
* 1985 - Marvin Hagler & Donald Curry
* 1986 - Mike Tyson
* 1987 - Evander Holyfield
* 1988 - Mike Tyson
* 1989 - Pernell Whitaker

1990s

* 1990 - Julio César Chávez
* 1991 - James Toney
* 1992 - Riddick Bowe
* 1993 - Michael Carbajal
* 1994 - Roy Jones Jr.
* 1995 - Oscar de la Hoya
* 1996 - Evander Holyfield
* 1997 - Evander Holyfield
* 1998 - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
* 1999 - Paulie Ayala

2000s

* 2000 - Félix Trinidad
* 2001 - Bernard Hopkins
* 2002 - Vernon Forrest
* 2003 - James Toney
* 2004 - Glen Johnson
* 2005 - Ricky Hatton
* 2006 - Manny Pacquiao
* 2007 - Floyd Mayweather Jr.

ee also

*Ring Magazine fights of the year
*Edward J. Neil Trophy, given annually to the fighter adjudged by the Boxing Writers Association of America to be the best


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