The Ring magazine Fight of the Year
The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has since named a Fight of the Year, which this list covers.
Sugar Ray Robinson being held aloft by Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio in 1965. Basilio engaged in five straight Fight of the Year contests from 1955 to 1959, with three of them contested against either Robinson or Fullmer.
Muhammad Ali was involved in more Fight of the Year contests than any other boxer in history; six spanning almost two decades.
Arturo Gatti at the post-fight press conference after his third fight with Micky Ward, 2003
The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing-oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises division of Golden Boy Promotions, which acquired it in 2007. Ring began publishing annual ratings of boxers in 1924. With its November/December 2022 issue, the magazine stopped publication of its regular monthly print issues and will remain a digital publication, offering occasional special interest print issues.
Cover of the first issue
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