The Cus D'Amato Award, known alternatively as the Boxing Writers of America Manager of the Year Award and previously known as the Al Buck Award from 1967 to 2008, has been conferred annually since 1967 by the Boxing Writers Association of America on the manager, irrespective of nationality or class of fighter represented, adjudged by the membership of the Association to have been the best in boxing in a given year.
Named after Cus D'Amato, an American boxing manager, the award is presented with other honors given by the BWAA at an annual awards dinner held in the spring of the year following that for performance in which the award is given. The award was named till 2008 after Al Buck, an American sportswriter, long of The Ring.
Past recipients YearManagerNation1967Gil Clancy1968Angelo Dundee1969Yancey Durham1970Dick Sadler1971Yancey Durham 1972Paddy Flood Gregorio Benitez 1973Gil Clancy 1974Herbert Muhammad1975Eddie Futch1976Bob Biron1977Bill Slayton1978Richie Giachetti1979Angelo Dundee 1980Emanuel Steward1981Janks Morton Michael Trainer1983Goody & Pat Petronelli1990Shelly Finkel1991Al Certo1992Rock Newman1993Lou Duva Shelly Finkel 1994George Foreman1995Fred Levin Stanly Levin1996No award conferred1997Pat Lynch1998Floyd Mayweather Sr.1999Panos Eliades Frank Maloney2000Felix Trinidad Sr.2001Ricardo Maldonado 2002Norman Stone Klaus Peter-Kohl 2003No award conferred2004Bernard Hopkins2005Al Haymon2006No award conferred2007Cameron Dunkin2008Joe Calzaghe2009No award conferred2010No award conferred2011No award conferred2012Al Haymon 2013Al Haymon 2014Al Haymon 2015Al Haymon 2019Keith Connolly2020David McWater2021Eddy Reynoso2022Peter Khan2023Bill Haney2024Egis Klimas2025Keith Connolly
See also Eddie Futch-John F.X. Condon Award, conferred by the BWAA on the trainer adjudged to be the best in boxing in a given year The Ring annual awards
References
External links List of award winners and winner biographies from boxrec.com List of award winners from the official site of the Boxing Writers Association of America List of BWAA awards from the official site of the International Boxing Hall of Fame