2010 Ring fan polls: Event of the Year

RingTV.com, in association with Yahoo! Sports, is offering boxing fans the opportunity to vote for their favorites from 2010 and determine a winner in eight categories.



What was the Event of the Year? Results to be revealed at www.ringtv.com.Pacquiao-Floyd breakdown Pacquiao-Margarito Mayweather-Mosley Pacquiao-Clottey Death of Valero

One category will appear each day on Yahoo! Sports and the result will be announced the following day at http://www.ringtv.com/.


Note: These are not the official Ring awards. Those will be announced in the magazine itself.


The following are the candidates for Event of the Year.


1. Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. failed negotiations No boxing event was talked or written about as much as the failure of the potentially richest fight in history to take place in 2010.


2. Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito Nobody believed the disgraced Mexican brawler deserved a shot at Pacquiao but their high-profile showdown proved that controversy sells.

3. Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley Mayweather silenced his critics by facing the most respected and formidable opponent he’d fought since Oscar De La Hoya.

4. Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey What was thought to be a mediocre substitute to Pacquiao-Mayweather drew more than 50,000 fans to Cowboys Stadium in the first boxing event held in the billion-dollar venue.

5. Death of Edwin Valero Controversial KO artist seemed poised to become a star but killed his wife in a tragic drug-induced meltdown and then shockingly took his own life in jail.