Numbers in brackets indicate the number of times a boxer has won the award by that year.
1920s • 1928:
Gene Tunney • 1929:
Tommy Loughran 1930s • 1930:
Max Schmeling • 1931:
Tommy Loughran (2) • 1932:
Jack Sharkey • 1933: no award given • 1934:
Tony Canzoneri and
Barney Ross • 1935:
Barney Ross (2) • 1936:
Joe Louis • 1937:
Henry Armstrong • 1938:
Joe Louis (2) • 1939:
Joe Louis (3)
1940s • 1940:
Billy Conn • 1941:
Joe Louis (4) • 1942:
Sugar Ray Robinson • 1943:
Fred Apostoli • 1944:
Beau Jack • 1945:
Willie Pep • 1946:
Tony Zale • 1947:
Gus Lesnevich • 1948:
Ike Williams • 1949:
Ezzard Charles 1950s • 1950:
Ezzard Charles (2) • 1951:
Sugar Ray Robinson (2) • 1952:
Rocky Marciano • 1953:
Bobo Olson • 1954:
Rocky Marciano (2) • 1955:
Rocky Marciano (3) • 1956:
Floyd Patterson • 1957:
Carmen Basilio • 1958:
Ingemar Johansson • 1959:
Ingemar Johansson (2)
1960s has been named Fighter of the Year more times than any other boxer in history. He was disqualified from the honor from 1964 to 1966 due to controversy over his religious and political beliefs, but it was retroactively awarded in December 2016. Ali won the award six times in total. • 1960:
Floyd Patterson (2) • 1961:
Joe Brown • 1962:
Dick Tiger • 1963:
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) • 1964:
Emile Griffith • 1965:
Dick Tiger (2) • 1966:
Muhammad Ali (2) (originally not awarded; retroactively awarded in 2016) • 1967:
Joe Frazier • 1968:
Nino Benvenuti • 1969:
José Nápoles 1970s • 1970:
Joe Frazier (2) • 1971:
Joe Frazier (3) • 1972:
Muhammad Ali (3) and
Carlos Monzón • 1973:
George Foreman • 1974:
Muhammad Ali (4) • 1975:
Muhammad Ali (5) • 1976:
George Foreman (2) • 1977:
Carlos Zarate • 1978:
Muhammad Ali (6) • 1979:
Sugar Ray Leonard 1980s • 1980:
Thomas Hearns • 1981:
Sugar Ray Leonard (2) and
Salvador Sánchez • 1982:
Larry Holmes • 1983:
Marvin Hagler • 1984:
Thomas Hearns (2) • 1985:
Marvin Hagler (2) and
Donald Curry • 1986:
Mike Tyson • 1987:
Evander Holyfield • 1988:
Mike Tyson (2) • 1989:
Pernell Whitaker 1990s • 1990:
Julio César Chávez • 1991:
James Toney • 1992:
Riddick Bowe • 1993:
Michael Carbajal • 1994:
Roy Jones Jr. • 1995:
Oscar De La Hoya • 1996:
Evander Holyfield (2) • 1997:
Evander Holyfield (3) • 1998:
Floyd Mayweather Jr. • 1999:
Paulie Ayala 2000s • 2000:
Félix Trinidad • 2001:
Bernard Hopkins • 2002:
Vernon Forrest • 2003:
James Toney (2) • 2004:
Glen Johnson • 2005:
Ricky Hatton • 2006:
Manny Pacquiao • 2007:
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (2) • 2008:
Manny Pacquiao (2) • 2009:
Manny Pacquiao (3)
2010s • 2010:
Sergio Martínez • 2011:
Andre Ward • 2012:
Juan Manuel Márquez • 2013:
Adonis Stevenson • 2014:
Sergey Kovalev • 2015:
Tyson Fury • 2016:
Carl Frampton • 2017:
Vasiliy Lomachenko • 2018:
Oleksandr Usyk • 2019:
Canelo Álvarez 2020s • 2020:
Tyson Fury (2) and
Teófimo López • 2021:
Canelo Álvarez (2) • 2022:
Dmitry Bivol • 2023:
Naoya Inoue • 2024:
Oleksandr Usyk (2) • 2025:
Terence Crawford ==Fighter of the Decade==