The World Boxing Association (WBA) named Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) as the Promotions Company of the Year 2020, and Eddie Hearn as the Promoter of the Year.
The pioneer organization, in recognition of those in charge of organizing boxing around the world, also awarded Honorable Mentions to Matchroom Boxing and the legendary Bob Arum, for their work during a complicated year like the one that just ended.
PBC presented several important events in the United States featuring WBA world title fights.
For his part, Hearn, from Matchroom Boxing, has proven to be one of the most influential promoters and has taken his company to the top of today’s boxing.
The legendary Bob Arum, from Top Rank, took the lead in a huge effort to restore boxing and was the first to return after the break by organizing the first post-Covid-19 world title fight between Joshua Franco and Andrew Moloney in June.
The WBA congratulates the winners and hopes that 2021 will be a successful year for all of them.
With the release of the Promotions Company of the Year and the Promoter of the Year, begins the publication schedule of the 2020 WBA annual awards. After consulting with fans through social media, the pioneer organization will announce the winners in the following order starting today until January 9th:
January 5th
Revelation of the Year
Female Revelation of the Year
January 6th
Trainer of the Year
January 7th
KO of the year
Fight of the Year
January 8th
Female Boxer of the Year
January 9th
Boxer of the Year
A big thank you to judges Christy Martin, Chad Dawson and Vinny Pazienza for their work in naming these winners.
PBC gets the gold and black strap while Matchroom is the interim promotional company
Dana White is the promoter of the year!!!
PBC are not promoters. Well at least that’s what they lawsuit said.
How naming the promoter of the year who is the least corrupt, political, and wants to give fans the very best?
I don’t know who promoted Gervonta Davis vs. Leo Santa Cruz event, but I would give them the “Mismatch event of the year” trophy, with Gervonta Davis, Regis Prograis and Mario Barrios obliterating overmatched opponents, and the cherry on top of the cake was Diego Magdaleno being crushed in the first round by a monster in evolution named Isaac Cruz Gonzalez.
PBC always been hated by ODH and Arum but the proof is in the results. Mayweather left Golden Boy and Arum and knew he had a good thing when he signed with Al Haymon. His fighters give him all the praise. Arum and Oscar need to take note because their fighters have a different tone about satisfaction with their promotion.
I dont like Eddie Hearn’s. Something about him comes off wrong. Still as far as promoters go he seems to have the best interest of his boxers in mind. Most promoters will throw their own fighter to the wolfs if the payday is right. Hearn’s on the other hand pushes for his fighters to have the best payday. It may have costs us some great fights, but his fighters wont be broke when they leave boxing. There was a time when Don King was seen as the greatest promoter, then when the top guys retired and we found out how much he was pocketing the word promoter took on a new meaning.
Ryan is not ready for top of division in my humble opinion, he needs to work on his head movements and footwork, he is fast and good power but that won’t be enough for top guys…