Early Nominations for Bad Left Hook Fight of the Year

by Scott Christ on Nov 2, 2009 4:31 PM EST in Boxing Commentary & Opinion

As we get closer to the end of 2009, I figure it's time to start taking a look at the various awards we'll be figuring out for Bad Left Hook this year, the first time we're going to do a full-scale awards "thing," and I want some input from everyone. We'll start with Fight of the Year, which is nowhere near close to done. There are a lot of strong contenders and there are a lot of great matchups yet to come in the final two months of the year, too.

I'm going to put up a short list right now, and you can nominate fights you think you should be considered -- even if you don't personally think they are better than any fight on this list -- in the comments for the post. I'm also going to figure out a voting process that isn't just site polls, because we all know those get skewed, and that just is what it is. It might require some extra effort to vote for the awards, but that's life.

Early Nominations: 2009 Bad Left Hook Fight of the Year

February 28: Juan Manuel Marquez v. Juan Diaz
March 21: Ricardo Cordoba v. Bernard Dunne
April 4: Vicente Escobedo v. Carlos Hernandez
April 18: Ulises Solis v. Brian Viloria
April 25: Carl Froch v. Jermain Taylor
June 27: Victor Ortiz v. Marcos Maidana
September 4: Jose Lopez v. Marvin Sonsona
October 10: Juan Manuel Lopez v. Rogers Mtagwa
October 23: Jamie Moore v. Ryan Rhodes
October 31: Joseph Agbeko v. Yonnhy Perez

For those of you who haven't seen Solis-Viloria or Lopez-Sonsona, do try to find some time and give those a look. Froch-Taylor won our April Fight of the Month poll, but I strongly believe Solis-Viloria was the superior fight, it just wasn't seen by as many people. Cordoba-Dunne is pretty terrific as well, if you missed that one.

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I’m going to take your advice before voting and watch Lopez-Sonsona. Right now, though, as much as I like Viloria vs Solis and Agbeko vs Perez, I’d still have to go with Diaz vs Marquez.

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by Matt Miller on Nov 2, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions

Diaz/Marquez

I was there live. It was an electrifying all out war from start to finish. I still have it on my DVR too!

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by xFenixKnightx on Nov 2, 2009 6:31 PM EST reply actions

Just to be clear, we’re not voting for anything yet. That’ll happen in late December or early January. These are just calls for nominations if you think there’s anything else that should be put on the ballot.

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by Scott Christ on Nov 2, 2009 6:47 PM EST reply actions

One more I'd add

Although it also falls into the category of ‘not enough people saw it’ is Cruz-Solis. Either that or Viloria-Solis is probably my #5 fight of the year so far, after Dunne-Cordoba, Marquez-Diaz, Perez-Agbeko and Rhodes-Moore. Still haven’t seen Lopez-Mtagwa though.

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by Brickhaus on Nov 2, 2009 7:09 PM EST reply actions