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Best Boxer ESPY Award
Annual athletic award
Annual athletic award
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Best Boxer ESPY Award |
| awarded_for | best boxer |
| presenter | ESPN |
| year | 1993 |
| holder | Katie Taylor |
| website |
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.
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 | ||
| 2022 | Tyson Fury (2) | Heavyweight | ||
| 2023 | Claressa Shields | Welterweight | ||
| 2024 | Terence Crawford | Welterweight | ||
| 2025 | Katie Taylor | Super lightweight |
Notes
References
References
- Because of the [[ESPY Awards#Timing. rescheduling]] of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in [[2002 in sports. 2002]] was given in consideration of performance betwixt February [[2001 in sports. 2001]] and June 2002.
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