Fighter of the year, round of the year and contest of the year are all up for debate as Mike Costello and Steve Bunce discuss 2019.
Steve Bunce and Mike Costello have travelled the world calling the biggest fights for BBC Sport in 2019"What a year. We may say we didn't get this or that - but what a year," says BBC Radio 5 Live Boxing's Steve Bunce.
Here, BBC boxing correspondent Mike Costello and his 5 Live side-kick Bunce hand out their awards for the year, and go one further as they name their pound-for-pound top five global fighters.Watch: Costello's brilliant commentary of Joshua shockThere was round four when Errol Spence Jr beat Shawn Porter in Los Angeles in September - a cracking fight - and in that round you could see the sheer amount of talent.
I will go for Taylor and Prograis at home and overseas I am sticking with Wilder's knockout of Ortiz because of all the elements attached to it.Because of the upset nature of it, Joshua-Ruiz has to qualify as one of the fights of the year. Then there is Naoya Inoue's win over Nonito Donaire in Japan in November. Inoue picked up two of the world bantamweight titles and I'm not sure there is a better fight.
Fight of the year at home for me was Prograis against Taylor and abroad it has to be Donaire against Inoue.Golovkin and Alvarez shared a draw in 2017 before the Mexican landed a win in 2018A fight not happening is my disappointment of the year as I felt we would get a trilogy fight between Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.
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