World Boxing News Awards 2024: The Winners in a subpar year

December 31, 2024

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World Boxing Information declares the winners of this 12 months’s Awards after a less-than-stellar twelve months for the game.

Aside from undisputed title fights at heavy and light-heavyweight, boxing struggled to placed on aggressive reveals on the high degree. Many high stars had been additionally inactive as promoters had been left in limbo in the course of the transition from TV to streaming providers.

When big fights did recover from the road, like Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury or Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol, the undercards left lots to be desired. Boxing wants an enormous shake-up in 2025 as the typical age of champions rises and the pound-for-pound scene lies static for a lot of the time.

Nevertheless, the one shining mild above all others in 2024 was Usyk. The unbelievable and seemingly unbeatable king of boxing cemented his place by far and away because the P4P primary. Usyk wins the WBN Fighter of the Yr trophy for the second time in three years for his two dominant victories over Fury.

The primary battle in Could will get the nod for Battle of the Yr.

The Ladies’s Award goes to Claressa Shields, who added one other benchmark for others to observe to her resume. Shields grew to become light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion concurrently to raise herself to the rank of a five-weight world champion.

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano get a particular point out for his or her struggle. Nevertheless, Taylor was concerned in one more controversial resolution and was by no means within the working for FOTY.

Younger Fighter of the Yr [23 or under during 2024] goes to Brian Norman Jr. [turned 24 in November] for his ascent into the mainstream. The P4P Breakthrough goes to Junto Nakatani, who went from nowhere to quantity ten in 2024.

Knockout of 2024 is, doubtless, Lucas Bahdi’s pulverization of Ashton Sylve, whereas heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois will get the Comeback of 2024 recognition for his return following defeat to Usyk in August 2023. Dubois defeated Jarrell Miller on the again finish of 2023 however adopted that up by stopping Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua.

The World Title Prospect of 2025 is Xander Zayas, who will intention to observe 2023’s recipient Angel Ayala Lardizabal in successful a world title as predicted by WBN.

Lastly, the Upset of 2024 can solely go to 1 man—step ahead, Bruno Surace. The Frenchman’s stoppage win over Jaime Munguia in December got here out of left subject, and there was solely going to be one winner.