Best Boxer ESPY Award
The Best Boxer ESPY Award is presented annually to the professional or amateur boxer, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year. Active between 1993 and 2006, the Best Boxer ESPY Award was subsumed from 2007-2018 by the Best Fighter ESPY Award, for which both boxers and mixed martial arts fighters were eligible, and then revived in 2019 when a separate ESPY Award was created for Best MMA Fighter.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and ESPN personalities, termed collectively experts; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter was exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter were conferred in June and reflected performance from the June previous.[1]
List of winners[]
Year | Fighter | Nation represented | Weight class represented |
---|---|---|---|
1993 | Riddick Bowe | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
1994 | Evander Holyfield | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
1995 | George Foreman | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
1996 | Roy Jones Jr. | ![]() |
Super middleweight |
1997 | Evander Holyfield (2) | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
1998 | Evander Holyfield (3) | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
1999 | Oscar De La Hoya | ![]() |
Welterweight |
2000 | Roy Jones Jr. (2) | ![]() |
Light heavyweight |
2001 | Félix Trinidad | ![]() |
Junior middleweight |
2002 | Lennox Lewis | ![]() ![]() |
Heavyweight |
2003 | Roy Jones Jr. (3) | ![]() |
Light heavyweight/Heavyweight |
2004 | Antonio Tarver | ![]() |
Light heavyweight |
2005 | Bernard Hopkins | ![]() |
Middleweight |
2006 | Oscar De La Hoya (2) | ![]() |
Junior middleweight |
2019 | Canelo Álvarez | ![]() |
Middleweight |
2020 | Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||
2021 | Tyson Fury | ![]() |
Heavyweight |
See also[]
- The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year
- Sugar Ray Robinson Award, by the Boxing Writers Association of America
Notes[]
References[]
- Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-02-23)
- ESPY Awards
- Boxing awards
- Awards established in 2003
- Awards disestablished in 2006