Fight of the Year 2013: Bradley-Provodnikov

The Fight of the Year for 2013 came down to two rousing 12-round boxer-slugger confrontations for the fans who voted in RingTV’s year-end awards poll.

Marcos Maidana’s hard-fought but clear-cut unanimous decision over  Broner, garnered 32.9 percent of 1,300 votes, but was outdone by Tim Bradley’s narrow unanimous decision over Ruslan Provodnikov, which took in a little more than half (51.1 percent) of the votes.

Both fights featured undefeated American boxers defending their world welterweight titles against rugged, hard-punching foreign-born challengers. And both fights exceeded the expectations of the boxing media and most fans as the heavily favored Americans found themselves at the wrong end of fearsome early round onslaughts from their underdog challengers.

With the victory, Timothy Bradley proved that he belongs among the sport’s elite. Meanwhile, Provodnikov  Ruslan  proved that he belongs on the world-class stage. Together, they combined to give boxing its Fight of the Year.

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