Best of BOXING: Ranking of the best boxing Fights of the Year 2013 by ATBF

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‘Best of Boxing’, is the annual ranking of the best boxing fights of the year 2013, matches rated by AllTheBestFights.

Clicking on the names of the boxers you can watch and rate the video of the fight (if it is available on the web) and read some info about it. However, you do not find a link for all the boxing matches because we create a single post just for the 4 and 5 stars fights or for the most important ones.

Comment this post if you want to suggest your favorite boxing fight and to help us creating the best boxing ranking of all the most spectacular fights!

2012 best K-1 MUAY THAI fight – Artur Kyshenko vs Murthel Groenhart – full fight Video K-1 MAX FINAL

4_stars_k1_muay_thai_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-12-15, very exciting and tough fight with two knockdowns (both fighters went to the canvas), a spectacular finish and they had already fought twice in the same evening: congratulations to Artur Kyshenko and Murthel Groenhart, this is one of the best K-1 fights of the Year, four stars! Artur Kyshenko ranked as the No.3 middleweight in the world, entered the fight with a record of 52-9-1 while Murthel Groenhart had a record of 52-14-3. Kyshenko vs Groenhart is the final of the K-1 World MAX 2012 Final 8; they also faced each other a second time on April 23, 2016 (=Kyshenko vs Groenhart II). Watch the video!

Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez 4 full fight Video – 2012

5_stars_boxing_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-12-08, with two knockdowns, an astonishing fifth round (candidate for Round of the Year) and probably the knockout of the year, the fourth fight between Pacquiao and Marquez gets five stars as one of the most exciting fights of 2012. Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2 with 38 victories coming by way of knockout) entered as the No.2 welterweight in the world while Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1 with 39 victories coming by way of knockout) entered as the No.1 light welterweight. Pacquiao vs Marquez 4 is valid for a special WBO belt “Fighter of the Decade”. Watch the video!

2012 best BOXING fight – Chris John vs Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo – full fight Video

4_stars_boxing_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-11-09, Chris John vs Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo has been a classic toe-to-toe fight: exciting, tough and with a tremendous pace, four stars (only the first two rounds have not been very spectacular). Both undefeated, the Indonesian Chris John (47-0-2) entered as the No.3 featherweight in the world while Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (44-0-0) entered as the No.16. John vs Chonlatarn is valid for the WBA Super World featherweight title. Watch the video!

2012 best BOXING fight – Tomas Rojas vs Shinsuke Yamanaka – full fight Video WBC

4_stars_boxing_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-11-03, usually a fight like Shinsuke Yamanaka vs Tomas Rojas would get three stars, but thanks to the final knockout this match gets 4 stars: it could be a candidate for Knockout of the Year 2012. The undefeated Shinsuke Yamanaka (16-0-2) entered as the No.2 bantamweight in the world while Tomas Rojas (39-13-1) entered as the No.6. Yamanaka vs Rojas is valid for the WBC bantamweight title (Yamanaka’s second defense). Watch the video!

2012 best BOXING fight – Sebastien Gauthier vs Rodrigo Guerrero – full fight Video

4_stars_boxing_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-11-03, great performance and amazing exchanges from the first round: tough and exciting toe-to-toe fight, Sebastien Gauthier vs Rodrigo Guerrero gets four stars! Sebastien Gauthier (22-3-0) entered as the No.36 super bantamweight in the world while Rodrigo Guerrero (17-4-1) entered as the No.16 super flyweight. Gauthier vs Guerrero is on the undercard of Lucian Bute vs Denis Grachev. Watch the video!

2012 best K-1 MUAY THAI fight – Genji Umeno vs Chan-Hyung Lee – full fight Video

4_stars_k1_muay_thai_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-10-14, astonishing performance by both fighters, amazing pace and one knockdown in the third round: Genji Umeno vs Chan-Hyung Lee seems a classic K-1 Max fight, four stars for one of the best k-1 fights of 2012. Genji Umeno entered the fight with a record of 21-2-0 (he was ranked as the No.9 at Lumpinee Stadium in 2011) while Chan-Hyung Lee had a record of 11-3-1. Umeno vs Lee, superfight during K-1 WGP 2012 Final 16, is on the undercard of Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic vs Randy Blake. Watch the video!

Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado full fight Video – 2012

5_stars_boxing_ranking_allthebestfightsReview: 2012-10-13, amazing toe-to-toe fight from the first bell, Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado has been a very tough battle with an astonishing performance by both fighters: Compubox punching statistics showed that Rios threw, on average, almost 80 punches per round (30% accuracy rate) compared to Alvarado who threw more than 110 punches per round (22% accuracy rate); Rios vs Alvarado is a candidate for Fight of the Year 2012, five stars! Both undefeated, Brandon Rios (30-0-1) entered as the No.5 light welterweight in the world while Mike Alvarado (33-0-0) entered as the No.7. Rios vs Alvarado is valid for the vacant WBO Latino light welterweight title; undercard of Nonito Donaire vs Toshiaki Nishioka. They also faced each other a second time, on March 30, 2013 (=Rios vs Alvarado II) and a third time on January 24, 2015 (=Alvarado vs Rios III). Watch the video!