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(prHWY.com) January 12, 2013 - NYC, NY -- While every year boxing fans argue over what round was the best or who had the best fight or knockout, boxing fans should be more than satisfied with how great 2012 was. Boxing has welcomed new boxing superstars with Adrien Broner, Brandon Rios, Canelo Alvarez and Danny Garcia. While many still had hope for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, 2012 ended any hope of it happening. As with most years, boxing has lost some great ones, Emanuel Steward, Bert Sugar and Carmen Basilio to name a few. Boxing also said farewell to Larry Merchant covering fights for HBO while Showtime possibly had better network fights than HBO this year.
The biggest
boxing news was the drug testing it was big waive in the boxing world and watching some of our favorite fighters get stopped or knocked out was common. (I'm looking at you Hatton and Pacquiao) In the end, 2012 was a very good year and here is a list of the 12 biggest stories of 2012.
PACQUIAO goes down.....and so does the Mayweather-Pacquiao chatter-
There was a time not too long ago when a Pacquiao-Mayweather match up was the rage of the boxing world, hell even non boxing fans were asking and expecting the match up of the current p4p best boxers in the world to fight. Many felt that with both fighters being on the end tail of their career they would finally get in the ring sometime in 2013. However, while Mayweather has never had a fight in his career that deserved a rematch (other than Castillo) Pacquiao has had a foe in his career that he could never seem to shake. Juan Manuel Marquez. Marquez known as a boxing technician had faced Pacquiao 3 previous times that never really seemed to go his way. That all changed this past December as Marquez not only beat Pacquiao, he knocked Pacquiao out cold. It was a fight that many have called not only the fight of 2012 but the knockout of 2012. Along with the massive knockout not only did the dream match up fade but also Pacquiao's p4p status. In boxing you can never say never with match ups (anyone remember Jones Jr-Hopkins 2?) but a Mayweather-Pacquiao match up now is very very far from what it was 2-3 years ago and it will never be what it should have been.
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