The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year

The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has named a Fighter of the Year since 1928, which this list covers. The award, selected by the magazine editors, is based on a boxer's performance in the ring.

Award winners Numbers in brackets indicate the number of times a boxer has won the award by that year.

1920s 1928: Gene Tunney 1929: Tommy Loughran

1930s

1930: Max Schmeling 1931: Tommy Loughran (2) 1932: Jack Sharkey 1933: no award given 1934: Tony Canzoneri and Barney Ross 1935: Barney Ross (2) 1936: Joe Louis 1937: Henry Armstrong 1938: Joe Louis (2) 1939: Joe Louis (3)

1940s 1940: Billy Conn 1941: Joe Louis (4) 1942: Sugar Ray Robinson 1943: Fred Apostoli 1944: Beau Jack 1945: Willie Pep 1946: Tony Zale 1947: Gus Lesnevich 1948: Ike Williams 1949: Ezzard Charles

1950s 1950: Ezzard Charles (2) 1951: Sugar Ray Robinson (2) 1952: Rocky Marciano 1953: Bobo Olson 1954: Rocky Marciano (2) 1955: Rocky Marciano (3) 1956: Floyd Patterson 1957: Carmen Basilio 1958: Ingemar Johansson 1959: Ingemar Johansson (2)

1960s

1960: Floyd Patterson (2) 1961: Joe Brown 1962: Dick Tiger 1963: Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1964: Emile Griffith 1965: Dick Tiger (2) 1966: Muhammad Ali (2) (originally not awarded; retroactively awarded in 2016) 1967: Joe Frazier 1968: Nino Benvenuti 1969: José Nápoles

1970s 1970: Joe Frazier (2) 1971: Joe Frazier (3) 1972: Muhammad Ali (3) and Carlos Monzón 1973: George Foreman 1974: Muhammad Ali (4) 1975: Muhammad Ali (5) 1976: George Foreman (2) 1977: Carlos Zarate 1978: Muhammad Ali (6) 1979: Sugar Ray Leonard

1980s 1980: Thomas Hearns 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard (2) and Salvador Sánchez 1982: Larry Holmes 1983: Marvin Hagler 1984: Thomas Hearns (2) 1985: Marvin Hagler (2) and Donald Curry 1986: Mike Tyson 1987: Evander Holyfield 1988: Mike Tyson (2) 1989: Pernell Whitaker

1990s 1990: Julio César Chávez 1991: James Toney 1992: Riddick Bowe 1993: Michael Carbajal 1994: Roy Jones Jr. 1995: Oscar De La Hoya 1996: Evander Holyfield (2) 1997: Evander Holyfield (3) 1998: Floyd Mayweather Jr. 1999: Paulie Ayala

2000s 2000: Félix Trinidad 2001: Bernard Hopkins 2002: Vernon Forrest 2003: James Toney (2) 2004: Glen Johnson 2005: Ricky Hatton 2006: Manny Pacquiao 2007: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2) 2008: Manny Pacquiao (2) 2009: Manny Pacquiao (3)

2010s 2010: Sergio Martínez 2011: Andre Ward 2012: Juan Manuel Márquez 2013: Adonis Stevenson 2014: Sergey Kovalev 2015: Tyson Fury 2016: Carl Frampton 2017: Vasiliy Lomachenko 2018: Oleksandr Usyk 2019: Canelo Álvarez

2020s 2020: Tyson Fury (2) and Teófimo López 2021: Canelo Álvarez (2) 2022: Dmitry Bivol 2023: Naoya Inoue 2024: Oleksandr Usyk (2) 2025: Terence Crawford

Fighter of the Decade Source: 1910s: Sam Langford 1920s: Benny Leonard 1930s: Henry Armstrong 1940s: Sugar Ray Robinson 1950s: Sugar Ray Robinson (2) 1960s: Muhammad Ali 1970s: Roberto Durán 1980s: Sugar Ray Leonard 1990s: Roy Jones Jr. 2000s: Manny Pacquiao 2010s: Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year

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