Cus D'Amato Award

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The Cus D'Amato Award, known alternatively as the Boxing Writers of America Manager of the Year Award and previously known as the Al Buck Award from 1967 to 2008,[1] has been conferred annually since 1967 by the Boxing Writers Association of America on the manager, irrespective of nationality or class of fighter represented, adjudged by the membership of the Association to have been the best in boxing in a given year.

Named after Cus D'Amato, an American boxing manager, the award is presented with other honors given by the BWAA at an annual awards dinner held in the spring of the year following that for performance in which the award is given. The award was named till 2008 after Al Buck, an American sportswriter, long of The Ring.

List of winners[]

Year Manager Nation
1967 Gil Clancy  United States
1968 Angelo Dundee United States
1969 United States
1970 Dick Sadler United States
1971 Yancey Durham (2) United States
1972
United States
 Puerto Rico
1973 Gil Clancy (2) United States
1974 United States
1975 Eddie Futch United States
1976 United States
1977 United States
1978 Richie Giachetti United States
1979 Angelo Dundee (2) United States
1980 Emanuel Steward United States
1981 Janks Morton
United States
United States
1983 Goody & Pat Petronelli USA
1990 Shelly Finkel United States
1991 United States
1992 United States
1993 Lou Duva
Shelly Finkel (2)
United States
United States
1994 George Foreman United States
1995
United States
United States
1996 No award conferred
1997 United States
1998 Floyd Mayweather, Sr. United States
1999
Frank Maloney


 England
2000 Felix Trinidad Sr. Puerto Rico
2001  Mexico
2002 Norman Stone
United States
 Germany
2003 No award conferred
2004 Bernard Hopkins United States
2005 Al Haymon United States
2006 No award conferred
2007 United States
2008 Joe Calzaghe  Wales
2009 No award conferred
2010 No award conferred
2011 No award conferred
2012 Al Haymon (2) United States
2013 Al Haymon (3) United States
2014 Al Haymon (4) United States
2015 Al Haymon (5)[2] United States
2019 Keith Connolly United States
2020 David McWater United States

See also[]

  • Eddie Futch-John F.X. Condon Award, conferred by the BWAA on the trainer adjudged to be the best in boxing in a given year
  • The Ring annual awards

References[]

  1. ^ "Boxing Writers Association of America Manager of the Year". Box Rec. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Cus D'Amato Award Manager of the Year". BWAA. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

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