The Best Boxer ESPY Award is presented annually to the professional or amateur boxer, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. Active between 1993 and 2006, the Best Boxer ESPY Award was subsumed from 2007-2018 by the Best Fighter ESPY Award, for which both boxers and mixed martial arts fighters were eligible, and then revived in 2019 when a separate ESPY Award was created for Best MMA Fighter. In 2026, the Best Boxer ESPY Award was again subsumed by the Best Fighter ESPY Award following the reunification of the boxing and mixed martial arts categories.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and ESPN personalities, termed collectively experts; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter was exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter were conferred in June and reflected performance from the June previous.Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.

List of winners YearFighterNation representedWeight class represented1993Riddick BoweHeavyweight1994Evander HolyfieldHeavyweight1995George ForemanHeavyweight1996Roy Jones Jr.Super middleweight1997Evander Holyfield (2)Heavyweight1998Evander Holyfield (3)Heavyweight1999Oscar De La HoyaWelterweight2000Roy Jones Jr. (2)Light heavyweight2001Félix TrinidadJunior middleweight2002Lennox Lewis/Heavyweight2003Roy Jones Jr. (3)Light heavyweight/Heavyweight2004Antonio TarverLight heavyweight2005Bernard HopkinsMiddleweight2006Oscar De La Hoya (2)Junior middleweight 2019 Canelo ÁlvarezMiddleweight 2020Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 Tyson FuryHeavyweight2022Tyson Fury (2)Heavyweight2023Claressa Shields Welterweight2024Terence Crawford Welterweight2025Katie Taylor Super lightweight

See also The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year Sugar Ray Robinson Award, by the Boxing Writers Association of America

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