PEJUANG TAHUN NAOYA INOUE & AMANDA SERRANO HADIR MAKAN MALAM ANUGERAH PERSATUAN PENULIS TIJU KE-99 PADA 6 JUN DI NEW YORK
Naoya Inoue dan Amanda Serrano, diiktiraf secara universal antara pejuang paun demi paun terbaik dunia, telah mengesahkan bahawa mereka akan menghadiri majlis makan malam anugerah Persatuan Penulis Tinju Amerika ke-99 di Park 583, di 583 Jalan Taman, di Manhattan, New York, pada hari Khamis, 6 Jun, bermula pada 6 petang.
Inoue akan menerima Anugerah Sugar Ray Robinson yang berprestij sebagai 2023 Pejuang Terbaik BWAA, mencipta sejarah sebagai pejuang Jepun pertama yang memenangi salah satu anugerah bersejarah yang paling berharga dalam tinju, yang bermula sejak Jack Dempsey pada tahun 1938.
Serrano ialah 2023 Pejuang Wanita Terbaik, memperoleh anugerah itu untuk kali kedua dalam tiga tahun. Pergaduhan of the Year, pengurus, Jurulatih, Penyiar, Kewartawanan, dan Anugerah Keberanian juga akan disampaikan.
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In a pivotal year for women’s boxing that saw the sport reach more people than ever before, two-time United States Olympic gold medal winner Claressa Shields continued to soar, as she successfully defended her two world middleweight titles, then added three super middleweight belts before the end of a campaign that earned her the 2018 Christy Martin Award, which is given to the Boxing Writers Association of America’s Female Fighter of the Year.
“I am thrilled and honored to receive the Fighter of the Year award from the Boxing Writers Association of America. It is a dream come true, and it furthers my goal to lift women’s boxing to new levels,” Shields said.
“Dalam 2019 my goals are to become undisputed champion, to be ranked in the top 10 pound-for-pound list regardless of gender, and to continue the march of women’s boxing toward equality with men.”
The 23-year-old from Flint, Michigan becomes the second winner of the award, which was established in 2017. She will be honored at the BWAA’s annual award dinner, which will take place in 2019 at a site and date to be determined.
“In such a big year for women’s boxing, it wasn’t a surprise that there were so many worthy nominees for this award, but in 2018, Claressa Shields took things to a new level by becoming a two-division world champion and successfully defending her titles at both 168 dan 160 pounds in Showtime and HBO-televised bouts,” said Thomas Gerbasi, chairman of the BWAA’s women’s boxing committee. “That’s impressive in its own right, but the fact that she’s done this all before her tenth pro fight and under the glare of the spotlight that comes with being the face of the sport in the United States made her a unanimous choice for this year’s Christy Martin Award.”
Joining Roy Jones Jr., Andre Ward and the late Emanuel Steward as members of the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018, Shields began the year on a collision course with middleweight champion Christina Hammer, but first she finished up her business at 168 pounds by successfully defending her IBF and WBC titles with a shutout victory over Tori Nelson in January.
Next was Shields’ middleweight debut against Hanna Gabriels in June, and what followed was a Fight of the Year candidate that saw Shields rebound from the first knockdown of her career to win a clear-cut decision and the IBF and WBA belts. Soon after, the news came that Hammer had to withdraw from her November clash with Shields due to injury, tetapi “T-Rex” didn’t slow down, as she defeated Hannah Rankin and Femke Hermans to successfully defend her middleweight titles while adding the WBC crown to her trophy case.
