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February 25, 2015
The Boxing Writers Association of America announced the remainder of 2014 winners today.
Here are a few highlights of the remaining BWAA awards that were announced today. All award winners will be honored at what will be the 90th annual BWAA dinner on April 24th, in New York.
- Lucas Matthysse-John Molina was named the 2014 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier Fight of the Year.
- Freddie Roach wins the Eddie Futch Trainer of the Year award for the seventh time (Futch being Roach’s longtime mentor). He was credited with Manny’s two wins last year and for guiding Miguel Cotto to the middleweight championship.
“Words cannot express how much winning an award with Eddie Futch’s name on it means to me,” said Roach, who was trained by the Hall of Famer during his boxing career and was later his assistant. “I’d like to thank the BWAA for this honor. My name may be on the plaque, but I am just a representative of the collective hard work and dedication from the most talented and hardest-working fighters and assistant trainers in the world. It is a privilege to work with them.”
- Al Haymon wins the Cus D’Amato Manager of the Year for the third year in a row, and for the fourth time overall. Surprisingly, he wasn’t available for comment…
- The late Dan Goossen wins the Marvin Kohn Good Guy award. A much deserved credit as you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who would say a harsh word about the man.
“He was an honorable, honest, good guy in a business where it’s not easy to have that kind of personality. There’s no one more deserving. There is so much going on with the game that he’d be so excited about. It’s just hard to talk about it. We all loved him so much,” said Tom Brown (Goossen’s brother-in-law).
Feel free to check the link for a list of the remaining winners, including the winner of the outstanding boxing writing award – an award I somehow wasn’t even nominated for. I’m tellin’ ya, it’s always the politics…