Officials in New Jersey suspended three judges following a bout for turning in incomprehensible scorecards that were, quite literally, divorced from reality.
Yet through those and other mishaps, the fighters kept the fans coming back. Because, like no other year in recent memory, the spectacular fights kept coming.
Week after week and month after month, highlight-reel fights occurred in venues spanning the globe. For the first time in decades, more than a dozen fights would have been more than worthy for Fight of the Year honors.
In some recent years, the battle between super middleweights Carl Froch and Glen Johnson in June might have been the Fight of the Year. This year, it?s an honorable mention ? and doesn?t even come close to being in the top 10.
