2010 Ring fan polls: Fight of the Year
RingTV.com, in association with Yahoo! Sports, is offering boxing fans the opportunity to vote for their favorites from 2010 and determine a winner in eight categories.
One category will appear each day on Yahoo! Sports and the result will be announced the following day at http://www.ringtv.com/.
Note: These are not the official Ring awards. Those will be announced in the magazine itself.
The following are the candidates for Fight of the Year.
1. Juan Manuel Marquez TKO 9 Michael Katsidis - The 37-year-old lightweight champ got up from a third-round knockdown to engage in scintillating exchanges that wore down the younger, stronger, harder-punching challenger.
2. Humberto Soto UD 12 Urbano Antillon - Soto's masterful boxing and combination punching barely held off the relentless pressure and body punching from Antillon in an action-packed lightweight title bout.
3. Giovani Segura KO 8 Ivan Calderon - Anticipated matchup between aging Puerto Rican boxing master and young Mexican power puncher lived up to expectations with youth winning out as Segura's non-stop pressure and body attack overwhelmed the game Calderon.
4. Amir Khan UD 12 Marcos Maidana - Khan boxed boldly after scoring first-round body shot knockdown but the British star had to survive a furious final-rounds assault from the relentless Argentine puncher beginning with a near-disastrous 10th round.
5. Antonio Escalante UD 10 Miguel Roman - El Paso grudge match between Juarez, Mexico, rivals was a brutal give-and-take affair that featured constant action.
