The Ring The Ring may refer to: Arts and entertainment *The Ring (franchise), ''The Ring'' (franchise), a Japanese horror media franchise Literature * ''The Ring'', a 1967 novel by Richard Chopping * ''The Ring'', a 1988 book by Daniel Keys Moran * ''The R ...

'' magazine was established in 1922 and has named a notable boxing Event of the Year since 1993, based on the magazine's writers' criteria.

Event of the Year by decade

1990s

* 1993 Fan Man at Bowe-Holyfield II * 1994 Revenge: The Rematches * 1995 Tyson returns * 1996Riot at the Garden (see Riddick Bowe vs. Andrew Golota) * 1997

The Bite a.k.a. ''Bait'' (1966) is a Japanese ''pink film'' directed by Hiroshi Mukai, credited as "Kan Mukai" in the international English-dubbed version, and starring Senjo Ichiriki and Michiko Shiroyami. Synopsis A gigolo is paid by a rich older woma ...

* 1998 Tyson's reinstatement * 1999The IBF indictments

2000s

* 2000 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Shane Mosley * 2001 Middleweight World Championship Series * 2002The Lewis–Tyson press conference brawl * 2003

Roy Jones Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. As an amateur he r ...

fights at heavyweight * 2004

Lennox Lewis Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965) is a British-Canadian boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division from 1989 to 2003. He was a three-time world champion, a two-time lineal champion, ...

retirement * 2005'' The Contender'' * 2006 Corrales- Castillo III weigh-in * 2007

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr., billed as ''The World Awaits'', was a professional boxing match contested on May 5, 2007, for the WBC super welterweight championship.. At the time, the bout was the most lucrative boxing match ever, wit ...

* 2008The retirement of

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. He list of undefeated boxing world champions, retired with an undefeated record a ...

* 2009

Antonio Margarito Antonio Margarito Montiel (born March 18, 1978) is a Mexican-American former professional boxer and cheater who competed between 1994 and 2017. He held multiple welterweight world championships, including the WBO title from 2002 to 2007, the ...

caught cheating

2010s

* 2010The failure to make Mayweather vs. Pacquiao * 2011 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez III * 2012September 15:

HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based a ...

and

Showtime Showtime or Show Time may refer to: Film * ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film * ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur Television Networks and channels * Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...

both hold boxing events in

Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

: Chávez Jr. vs. Martínez and Álvarez vs. López * 2013 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez * 2014 Carl Froch vs. George Groves II * 2015

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as the ''Fight of the Century'' or the ''Battle for Greatness'', was a professional boxing match between undefeated five-division world champion and WBA (Unified), WBC, and ''The Ring'' welterwe ...

* 2016 The death of

Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and social activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "The Greatest", he is often regarded as the gr ...

* 2017 Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin * 2018 HBO leaves boxing (see

HBO World Championship Boxing ''HBO World Championship Boxing'' (in later years stylized in its title card as ''HBO Boxing – World Championship'') is an American sports television series on premium television network HBO. It premiered on January 22, 1973, with a fight that ...

and

Boxing After Dark ''Boxing After Dark'' is an HBO boxing program, premiered on February 3, 1996, that usually showed fights between well-known contenders, but usually not "championship" or "title" fights. Unlike its sister program, ''HBO World Championship Boxing ...

) * 2019 Andy Ruiz Jr. vs. Anthony Joshua II

2020s

* 2020

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* 2021 Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk * 2022 Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano * 2023 Anthony Joshua vs. Otto Wallin * 2024 Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk

References

External links

* Boxing awards Recurring events established in 1993 Event of the year {{boxing-stub