End of the year awards are coming in: Carl Frampton wins ESPN's Fighter of the Year.
Fighter of the year is tough, especially tough this year. Crawford would be a great bet again if he had a better opponent to close the year, someone other than Molina Jr.
It's gotta be between Frampton, Lomachenko & Ward for me. Lomachenko spectacularly beat Roman Martinez & Walters, and would be the hands down if Martinez was a better fighter. Frampton had two very good, albeit close, wins against Quigg & Santa Cruz. Ward waxed Brand (ok fighter), Sullivan Barrera (who is certainly an underrated fighter), and had the controversial win against Kovalev. Ward still was given the win against Kovalev though, and FoTY is judged under parameters of what you accomplished not how much of a better fighter you are etc...
That's tough, not sure. I would go Kovalev & Ward for fight of the year: really good competitive fight, and the importance was massive. If going for more entertaining Chisora - Whyte was insane.