The Nat Fleischer Award is an award conferred annually by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) for Excellence in Boxing Journalism. The award is named after Nat Fleischer, founder of The Ring Magazine.
History Established in 1972, the award honors Nat Fleischer, who helped found the Boxing Writers Association of America and served as its president. Voting for the Nat Fleischer Award is restricted to past honorees, while BWAA members vote on all other awards. The BWAA presents the award each year at its annual honors dinner.
The first person to receive the award was American sportswriter Barney Nagler. The first non-American recipient of the award was Hugh McIlvanney in 1986.
The late Red Smith, known for influencing a generation of writers, is among its most distinguished honorees.
Past recipients Source: 1972 – Barney Nagler 1973 – Dave Anderson 1974 – Jack Hand, Murray Rose 1975 – Red Smith 1976 – Jesse Abramson 1977 – Bob Waters 1978 – Jerry Izenberg 1979 – Ed Schuyler Jr. 1980 – Tom Cushman 1981 – Michael Katz 1982 – Pat Putnam 1983 – Vic Ziegel 1984 – John Schulian 1985 – George Kimball 1986 – Hugh McIlvaney 1987 – Elmer Smith 1988 – Tom Archdeacon 1989 – Jim Murray 1990 – Bert Sugar 1991 – Stan Hochman 1992 – Ken Jones 1993 – Ron Borges 1994 – Wallace Matthews 1995 – Robert Seltzer 1996 – Royce Feour 1997 – Alan Goldstein 1998 – Bernard Fernandez 1999 – Tim Dahlberg 2000 – Jay Searcy 2001 – Richard Hoffer 2002 – Steve Springer 2004 – Thomas Hauser 2005 – Tim Smith 2006 – Kevin Iole 2007 – Steve Sneddon 2008 – Norm Frauenheim 2009 – None 2010 – Steve Farhood 2011 – Colin Hart 2012 – Dave Kindred 2013 – Dan Rafael 2014 – Mark Whicker 2015 – William Gildea 2016 – Bill Dwyre 2017 – Michael Rosenthal 2018 – Thom Loverro 2019 – Graham Houston 2020 – Joe Maxse 2021 – Mark Kriegel 2022 – Lance Pugmire 2023 – Nigel Collins 2024 – Tom Gerbasi
See also Boxing Writers Association of America
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