Boxing is a sport with no seasons, no set period where all heads turn in its direction and watch the best out of seven games or an entire Sunday evening in January. Boxing can be seen a couple times a month on the premium networks and quite often at least once a week on regular cable. Throw in a pay-per-view card a month and that’s the closest to a “set schedule” boxing fans can expect.
For the most part, boxing, like the way we toll time on ourselves, is measured in years. This isn’t a rule or any sanctioning body’s mandate from on high. It’s just something that’s always done. The Ring magazine, the widely accepted conscience of the sport, has always given annual awards and so has most everyone else. The web page where you found this story was lit up with 2003 retrospectives and awards over the last two weeks. So a year seems to be the accepted time period.
