By Chrysanthus Ikeh
The Jeff Powell’s 2014 award saw Froch, who fought only once this year, scoop the award after gathering over 80,000 people at Wembley, the biggest post-war boxing crowd in Britain which saw the pugilist also known as the Nottingham Cobra deliver the winning punch against George Groves, which also gifted him the knock-out of the year.
Meanwhile,. Floyd Mayweather didn’t totally miss out on the award as he was gifted with the No 1 POUND-FOR-POUND award, after his fight against Saul Alvarez which aired on pay per view.
The American boxer received a boxing record $41.5 million for the Alvarez fight. Floyd Maywether, who is a five-division world champion who has won ten world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classeshas with a perfect record of 47 wins from 47 contests.
