• Fighter of the Year: Vernon Forrest did very well in 2002, he took a solid scalp in the shape of Sugar Shane, then within the same year had the cheek to go again and repeat the achievement, but I honestly think that what Vernon did was nothing more than employ basic fundamentals to expose a good champion whose achievements had been somewhat magnified by public hysteria... My selection is a purely personal one, Oscar de la Hoya... a class act who has not been everyone's flavour of the month since losing to Shane.. but pulled out a classic victory over Vargas to show he is still one to be reckoned with. Gatti and Ward came a close second, superhuman guts shown by both in a duet of thrillers.
• Fight of the Year: Simple ... Ward vs Gatti 1
• Trainer of the Year ... Ronnie Shields has an Honorable Mention... put some great work into 2002, but my pick goes to Mister Mayweather Sr. for the way he held Oscar's hand and walked him methodically through his clinical thrashing of Fernando Vargas as if he was giving a tutorial out of a text book. The guy is just one from the old skool; very underrated Trainer... No discredit to Manny or Ronnie or Fritz... F.M. Sr. needs to be given Props.
  Honorable Mention indeed to JIMMY GLENN, who took an OK heavyweight and made him believe in himself and turned him into a millionaire heavyweight title challenger who even in defeat did not disgrace himself following an inspirational run of very respectful wins during a fairy tale couple of years..
• Manager of the Year ... Norman Stone, for agreeing to show Roy what his ass looks like.

• Fighter of the Year: Arturo Gatti because Vernon Forrest wasn't that convincing the second time around.
• Trainer of the Year: Buddy McGirt
• Fight of the Year: Arturo Gatti vs. Micky Ward I... Runner up Ahamd vs. Marqui

• Fighter of the Year: Vernon Forrest ... a carry over from first reducing the unbeatable to quite beatable Shane Mosley in 2001 ... and again proving it no fluke come 2002.
• Fight of the Year:  Oscar de la Hoya over Fernando Vargas ... not the slam-bam give and take of Gatti-Ward first time around but much more at stake. Oscar not only outclassed Vargas but out-toughed him as well. Lesson learned as bonus: Steroids have less impact than talent. Gatti-Ward was throwback to a prior era ... but as great Willie Pep once said it, "There are those that box, and there are those that fight with their face." Gatti learned second time around.
• Trainer of the Year: Buddy McGirt gets my pick over Emanuel Steward and Floyd Mayweather, Sr. Base the edge on an unbelievable transformation of a career walk-in banger to a good boxer-puncher in Arturo Gatti. Kicking the cigarette habit is tough ... dramatically changing a boxing style -with positive results- is a hair short of impossible. Steward has great eye on opponent strong and weak points but also has name fighters and Buddy doesn't as yet. Mayweather Sr. comes close with his work with Hoya and the right-hand addition, but not yet a finished product.
• Manager of the Year:  Haven't a clue ... today managers no longer have the clout they once did ... the multiple associations working with promoters and cable giants have dwarfed the role of the managers as I see it.

• Fighter of the Year: Vernon Forrest
• Fight of the Year: Ward-Gatti I
• Trainer of the Year: Buddy McGirt
• Manager of the Year: Bob Arum

• Trainer of the Year: I feel that either one of my brothers could easily win Trainer of the Year: Floyd Sr. for his fights with Oscar de la Hoya and Roger for his fights with Laila Ali, as she won two titles in one year. They both had very successful years.
• Fight of the Year: Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson.
• Fighter of the Year: Vernon Forrest.
• Manager of the Year: I would consider Chris Byrd's father for picking the right challenges for his son to emerge Heavyweight Champion at the end of the Year.

• Fighter of the Year: I have to go with the Gatti-Ward tandem and Oscar de la Hoya.
• Trainer of the Year: Buddy McGirt.
• Fight of the Year: Gatti-Ward I.
• Manager of the Year: Once again Sal LoNano and Pat Lynch...
  Had to put Gatti-Ward managers in there too for securing a quick rematch with no bulls$#t to hold it off.
• I think Vernon Forrest should also be up there for Fighter of the Year, and I'd like to see Winky Wright get a shot with some of the big guys.

• Fight of the Year: Gatti-Ward II.
• Trainer of the Year: Floyd Mayweather, Sr.

• Fighter of the Year:  Vernon Forrest ... Even though the second fight was ugly as hell and showed none of the creative flair of past super bouts, Vernon shut down a guy that everyone was lauding in the top three pound for pound.
  Floyd Jr. deserves credit for jumping up to the lightweight division and fighting its best champion immediately, but he didn't dominate in either fight which Vernon did in at least one.
  Roy rolled on the usual suspects so doesn't get the nod. Oscar De La Hoya deserves more credit than everyone but Vernon in that he beat a top guy, but a top guy who was rumored to be shot going into the fight and still made it close until the end unlike the pure ass whipping of Shane who everybody thought was the top dog before he fought Vernon.
  Lennox doesn't get top props for he took entirely too long, as Emmanuel Steward will tell you, to KO a man whose lisp was harder than he was on that night.
• Trainer of the Year:
  Buddy McGirt ... Not Captain Kirk or Red Alert but Buddy McGirt. McGirt got Gatti and Mitchell to box again, Antonio Tarver to crack open a guy that Roy couldn't solve, Nate Campbell into the top ten, and both Tyson and Etienne sweating him like the only hottie at a club.
  Emanuel Steward piloted a truck over a Honda in the Lewis-Tyson bout so he doesn't get it this year. Besides Manny has been working a lot more with his young fighters and the USA Boxing amateurs this year, laying groundwork for boxing's future top dogs.
  Al Mitchell and Ronnie Shields get honorable mention props.
• Manager of the Year: Shelly Finkel ... For generating more money for his fighters in the Tyson and Vargas fights than every other fighter who fought a super fight or PPV this year combined.
  Actually let me make James Prince Co-Manager of the Year because of his ability to sign and under serve several champions and top contenders to contracts that pay him a good commission with nothing more than the promises of a record deal and the ability to live in a bling-bling rap video existence when with their manager.

• Fighter of the Year: Vernon Forrest - 2 wins over a top 5 pound for pounder (according to some anyway!)
• Trainer of the Year: Buddy McGirt - without question.
• Fight of the Year: Ward-Gatti I - how about Fight of the Century?

From a British perspective...

• Fighter of the Year: Scott Harrison.
• Promoter and Trainer of the Year: Rob McCracken and Mick Hennessy, who run the real class of 2002 stable, Howard Eastman, Carl Froch, etc., really made an impression this year.