10: Most times in Fight of Year

A weekly boxing list compiled by Michael Rosenthal. This week: The fighters who took part in the most RING magazine Fights of the Year since the inception of the award in 1945:

6: Muhammad Ali (Doug Jones, 1963; Sonny Liston, ’64; Joe Frazier, ’71; George Foreman, ’74; Frazier ’75; Leon Spinks ’78)
5: Carmen Basilio (Tony DeMarco, ’55; Johnny Saxton, ’56; Ray Robinson, ’57; Ray Robinson, ’58; Gene Fullmer, ’59)
4: George Foreman (Frazier, ’73; Ali, ’74; Ron Lyle, '76; Jimmy Young, ’77)
4: Joe Frazier (Jerry Quarry, ’69; Ali, ’71; Foreman, ’73; Ali, ’75)
4: ARTURO GATTI (Gabriel Ruelas, ’97; Ivan Robinson, ’98; Micky Ward, ’02; Ward, ’03)
3: Rocky Graziano (Freddie Cochrane, ’45; Tony Zale, ’46; Zale, ’47)
3: Rocky Marciano (Jersey Joe Walcott, ’52; Roland LaStarza, ’53; Ezzard Charles, ’54)
3: Micky Ward (Emanuel Burton, ’01; Gatti, ’02; Gatti, ’03)
3: Tony Zale (Graziano, ’46; Graziano, ’47; Marcel Cerdan, ’48)
2: 15 tied

Michael Rosenthal can be reached at RingTVeditor@yahoo.com