It was another great year for boxing, which is very much alive and well with exciting fights, fighters, and bigger events coming from multiple promotions. Bloody Elbow’s boxing team (Mookie Alexander and Fraser Coffeen) looks back at 2018 and hands out awards for the best moments in the ring.
Mookie Alexander: I’m really torn. There were just so many great fights in 2018. Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jorge Linares was outstanding technical stuff that featured Loma down for the first time in his career, only to stop Linares with the sneakiest of body shots. Deontay Wilder rallied from being badly hurt to KO Luis Ortiz.