Three-time super-middleweight champion Carl Froch has named his 2023 Fighter of the Year after a standout twelve months for boxing that has left most fans picking between three fighters for the award.
Naoya Inoue became just the second man to claim an undisputed title in two different weight-divisions since the dawn of the four-belt era after he knocked out Marlon Tapales in the tenth-round of their Boxing Day showdown.
This came just five months after his super-bantamweight debut, where he stopped the poster boy of the division Stephen Fulton in one of the performances of the year.
Meanwhile, Devin Haney defeated pound-for-pound great Vasily Lomachenko by decision back in April in the second defence of his own undisputed title. Then, ‘The Dream’ vacated his belts to step up to super-lightweight, where he whitewashed Regis Prograis to claim the WBC 140lbs title.
However, in an interview with TalkSport, Froch picked Terence Crawford for the award, after ‘Bud’ became the first four-belt welterweight champion in a beatdown of long-term rival Errol Spence Jr in his lone contest of 2023.
Many fans claim that Crawford’s inactivity could cost him in his bid to win the award, but the unbeaten 36-year-old has responded to that argument on social media.
