Ring Magazine fights of the year
Ring Magazine was established in 1922. Since 1945, it has named a fight as fight of the year, based on the magazine's writers' criteria. Here is a list of Ring Magazine's fights of the year:
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1940s
- 1945: Rocky Graziano KO10 Red Cochrane
- 1946: Tony Zale KO6 Rocky Graziano
- 1947: Rocky Graziano KO6 Tony Zale
- 1948: Marcel Cerdan KO12 Tony Zale
- 1949: Willie Pep W15 Sandy Saddler
1950s
- 1950: Jake LaMotta KO15 Laurent Dauthuille
- 1951: Jersey Joe Walcott KO7 Ezzard Charles
- 1952: Rocky Marciano KO13 Jersey Joe Walcott
- 1953: Rocky Marciano KO11 Roland LaStarza
- 1954: Rocky Marciano KO8 Ezzard Charles
- 1955: Carmen Basilio KO12 Tony DeMarco
- 1956: Carmen Basilio KO9 Johnny Saxton
- 1957: Carmen Basilio W15 Sugar Ray Robinson
- 1958: Sugar Ray Robinson W15 Carmen Basilio
- 1959: Gene Fullmer KO14 Carmen Basilio
1960s
- 1960: Floyd Patterson KO5 Ingemar Johansson
- 1961: Joe Brown W15 Dave Charnley
- 1962: Joey Giardello W10 Henry Hank
- 1963: Cassius Clay W10 Doug Jones
- 1964: Muhammad Ali KO7 Sonny Liston
- 1965: Floyd Patterson W12 George Chuvalo
- 1966: Jose Torres W15 Eddie Cotton
- 1967: Nino Benvenuti W15 Emile Griffith
- 1968: Dick Tiger W10 Frank DePaula
- 1969: Joe Frazier KO7 Jerry Quarry
1970s
- 1970: Carlos Monzon KO12 Nino Benvenuti
- 1971: Joe Frazier W15 Muhammad Ali
- 1972: Bob Foster KO14 Chris Finnegan
- 1973: George Foreman KO2 Joe Frazier
- 1974: Muhammad Ali KO8 George Foreman
- 1975: Muhammad Ali KO14 Joe Frazier
- 1976: George Foreman KO4 Ron Lyle
- 1977: Jimmy Young W12 George Foreman
- 1978: Leon Spinks W15 Muhammad Ali
- 1979: Danny Lopez KO15 Mike Ayala
1980s
- 1980: Matthew Saad Muhammad KO14 Yaqui Lopez
- 1981: Sugar Ray Leonard KO14 Thomas Hearns
- 1982: Bobby Chacon W15 Rafael Limon
- 1983: Bobby Chacon W12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards
- 1984: Jose Luis Ramirez KO4 Edwin Rosario
- 1985: Marvin Hagler KO3 Thomas Hearns
- 1986: Stevie Cruz W15 Barry McGuigan
- 1987: Sugar Ray Leonard W12 Marvin Hagler
- 1988: Tony Lopez W12 Rocky Lockridge
- 1989: Roberto Duran W12 Iran Barkley
1990s
- 1990: Julio Cesar Chavez KO12 Meldrick Taylor (fight #1)
- 1991: Robert Quiroga W12 Akeem Anifowoshe
- 1992: Riddick Bowe W12 Evander Holyfield
- 1993: Michael Carbajal KO7 Humberto Gonzalez
- 1994: Jorge Castro KO9 John David Jackson
- 1995: Saman Sorjaturong KO7 Humberto Gonzalez
- 1996: Evander Holyfield KO11 Mike Tyson
- 1997: Arturo Gatti KO5 Gabriel Ruelas
- 1998: Ivan Robinson W10 Arturo Gatti (fight #1)
- 1999: Paulie Ayala W12 Johnny Tapia (fight #1)
2000s
- 2000: Erik Morales W12 Marco Antonio Barrera
- 2001: Micky Ward W10 Emanuel Burton
- 2002: Micky Ward W10 Arturo Gatti
- 2003: Arturo Gatti W10 Micky Ward III
- 2004: Marco Antonio Barrera W12 Erik Morales
(Note: Those fights with the message fight #1 in parenthesis are fights that had a rematch with the same fighter winning)