A bunch of senior citizens between 30 and 50 years dominated professional boxing in 2014.
Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, 38, one-dimensional and regarded as a boring champion, still reigned in a division devoid of excitement.
Bernard Hopkins, who will turn 50 on January 15, still held two light-heavyweight titles less than two months ago.
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, who may or may not clash for the biggest purse ever paid to two boxers, are 37 and 36 years old.
The most exciting ?young? fighter in the world is Gennady Golovkin, a 32-year-old middleweight from Kazakhstan. He, and a 31-year-old Russian light-heavy, Sergey Kovalev, are regarded as the ones to watch in 2015.
Golovkin, a devastating puncher who is undefeated and holds the WBA middleweight title, has won 28 of his 31 fights inside the distance. It makes him potentially the leading drawcard in the sport, even though some of his opponents were rather ordinary fighters.
Kovalev dominated the light-heavyweight division, beating Cedric Agnew and Blake Caperello before dominating Hopkins to add the IBF and WBA belts to his WBO title.
But the heavyweight class, traditionally the glamour division in boxing, remains nearly stagnant in year in which Klitschko fought only twice, beating no-hopers Alex Leapai and Kubret Pulev inside the distance.
Klitschko does not have serious challengers for his IBF, WBA and WBC titles. And with his brother Vitali now fighting in the more dangerous political arena, no classic heavyweight bouts are likely to take place soon.
There were, however, a few fights in other divisions that stood out in 2014. The return bout between British super-middleweights Carl Froch and George Groves drew 80 000 spectators to the Wembley Stadium in London on May 31
Froch, the IBF champion who also holds the WBA ?super? title in the same division, won on a seventh round stoppage. It was not a classic bout, but it stirred welcome interest in the sport.
Hopkins amazed the fans and critics when he outpointed Beibut Shumenov before losing his titles to Kovalev.
Miguel Cotto, who turned 34 in October, also sprung a surprise when beat the highly rated Sergio Martinez in a fight for the WBC belt to become a four-time ?world? champion.
PACQUIAO AND MAYWEATHER
Manny Pacquaio and Mayweather, probably beyond their best now, continued to dominate the welterweight division with two victories apiece.
Even in the lighter divisions, where speed is everything, a veteran of 27 ?world? title fights refused to surrender his throne. The 39-year-old Omar Narvaez from Argentina is still the WBO super-flyweight champion.
And while the youngsters are partying, he will defend his belt against Naoya Inoue in Tokyo on December 31.
Narvaez, who turns 40 in October next year, has been beaten only once in 46 professional fights ? by Nonito Donaire when he moved up the bantamweight division to challenge for the WBC and WBO belts.
Amnat Ruenroeng, a 35-year-old from Thailand, stood out in the flyweight division. He won the vacant IBF title and retained it against good fighters such as Kazuto Ioka and McWilliams Arroyo.
South Africa?s Hekkie Budler, a mere 26 years old, impressed in the mini-flyweight division. After making three defences, he enters the new year as WBA and IBO champion.
BRING IT ON IN 2015
Boxing enthusiasts can look forward to 2015 with a sense of optimism.
Everyone is hoping that Mayweather and Pacquiao will at last get into the ring to boost their pension funds. Both have been hailed as the best boxer in the world, pound for pound, but time is running out for them.
A unification clash between Golovkin and Cotto, with the WBA and WBC middleweight belts at stake, could be one of the highlights of 2015.
And a title unification bout between Budler and WBC champion Wanheng Menayothin from Thailand should produce brilliant boxing.
A big attraction in Britain, where boxing is going through a mini-boom, would be a fight between Amir Khan and Kell Brook, the IBF welterweight champion. Khan is hoping to fight Mayweather but will probably earn a million pounds or more by signing to fight Brook.
