Ring Magazine fighters of the year
Ring Magazine was established in 1922. Since 1928, it has named a fighter as fighter of the year, based on the magazine's writers' criteria. Here is a list of Ring Magazine's fighters of the year:
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1920s
1930s
- 1930 – Max Schmeling
- 1931 – Tommy Loughran
- 1932 – Jack Sharkey
- 1933 – No award was given
- 1934 – Tony Canzoneri & Barney Ross
- 1935 – Barney Ross
- 1936 – Joe Louis
- 1937 – Henry Armstrong
- 1938 – Joe Louis
- 1939 – Joe Louis
1940s
- 1940 – Billy Conn
- 1941 – Joe Louis
- 1942 – Sugar Ray Robinson
- 1943 – Fred Apostoli
- 1944 – Beau Jack
- 1945 – Willie Pep
- 1946 – Tony Zale
- 1947 – Gus Lesnevich
- 1948 – Ike Williams
- 1949 – Ezzard Charles
1950s
- 1950 – Ezzard Charles
- 1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson
- 1952 – Rocky Marciano
- 1953 – Bobo Olson
- 1954 – Rocky Marciano
- 1955 – Rocky Marciano
- 1956 – Floyd Patterson
- 1957 – Carmen Basilio
- 1958 – Ingemar Johansson
- 1959 – Ingemar Johansson
1960s
- 1960 – Floyd Patterson
- 1961 – Joe Brown
- 1962 – Dick Tiger
- 1963 – Cassius Clay
- 1964 – Emile Griffith
- 1965 – Dick Tiger
- 1966 – No award was given
- 1967 – Joe Frazier
- 1968 – Nino Benvenuti
- 1969 – Jose Napoles
1970s
- 1970 – Joe Frazier
- 1971 – Joe Frazier
- 1972 – Muhammad Ali & Carlos Monzon
- 1973 – George Foreman
- 1974 – Muhammad Ali
- 1975 – Muhammad Ali
- 1976 – George Foreman
- 1977 – Carlos Zarate
- 1978 – Muhammad Ali
- 1979 – Sugar Ray Leonard
1980s
- 1980 – Thomas Hearns
- 1981 – Sugar Ray Leonard & Salvador Sanchez
- 1982 – Larry Holmes
- 1983 – Marvin Hagler
- 1984 – Thomas Hearns
- 1985 – Marvin Hagler & Donald Curry
- 1986 – Mike Tyson
- 1987 – Evander Holyfield
- 1988 – Mike Tyson
- 1989 – Pernell Whitaker
1990s
- 1990 – Julio César Chávez
- 1991 – James Toney
- 1992 – Riddick Bowe
- 1993 – Michael Carbajal
- 1994 – Roy Jones Jr.
- 1995 – Oscar De La Hoya
- 1996 – Evander Holyfield
- 1997 – Evander Holyfield
- 1998 – Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- 1999 – Paulie Ayala
2000s
- 2000 – Félix Trinidad
- 2001 – Bernard Hopkins
- 2002 – Vernon Forrest
- 2003 – James Toney
- 2004 – Glen Johnson