Terence Crawford is the BWAA 2025 Fighter of the Year

The Boxing Writers Association of America is proud to announce that Terence Crawford has been voted by the BWAA membership as the 2025 Fighter of the Year. It is the second time Crawford has won the award, bookending an 11-year gap from his first BWAA FOY award in 2014.

The other nominees included Dmitry Bivol, Naoya Inoue, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez and Rene Santiago.

The BWAA is also proud to announce that Mikaela Mayer will be the 2025 BWAA female Fighter of the Year, while Shadasia Green's split-decision victory over Savannah Marshall was chosen as the BWAA 2025 female Fight of the Year.

Chris Eubank-Conor Benn I, won by Eubank in April, was the choice as the 2025 BWAA male Fight of the Year. The other worthy candidates included were Carlos Canizales KO5 Panya Pradabsri II, Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz W10 Angelo Fierro, Christian Mbilli W 10 Lester Martinez and Kenshiro Teraji KO 12 Seigo Yuri Akui.

Other BWAA winners were Robert Garcia as the Trainer of the Year for the second-consecutive year, Keith Connolly as Manager of the Year, won by Connolly for the second time, Roy Jones Jr. is the Taub Award winner for excellence in broadcast journalism, Hall of Fame legend Sugar Ray Leonard will be the Good Guy award recipient, while the long and meritorious winner was John Sheppard.

Finally, Hall of Fame legend Christy Martin has been selected as the courage award winner in overcoming adversity, and former USA Today boxing writer Jon Saraceno was selected as the Nat Fleischer award winner for excellence in boxing journalism.

The award winners will be honored at the annual BWAA awards dinner, which is open to the public, later this year at a site and time to be determined.

The winners and category nominees are listed below:

BWAA Fighter Of The Year winner: Terence Crawford

Nominees:

Dmitry Bivol

Terence Crawford

Naoya Inoue

Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez

Rene Santiago

Fight Of The Year winner: Chris Eubank W 12 Conor Benn I

Nominees:

Carlos Canizales KO5 Panya Pradabsri II

Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz W10 Angelo Fierro

Chris Eubank W 12 Conor Benn I

Christian Mbilli W 10 Lester Martinez

Kenshiro Teraji KO 12 Seigo Yuri Akui

Trainer of the Year winner: Robert Garcia

Nominees:

Ben Davison

Freddy Fundora

Robert Garcia

Shingo Inoue

Andy Lee

Manager of the Year winner: Keith Connolly

Nominees:

Keith Connolly

Robert Garcia

Peter Kahn

Vadim Kornilov

Rick Mirigian

Taub Award winner: Roy Jones Jr.

Nominees:

Jim Gray

Dave Harmon

Roy Jones

Mauro Ranallo

James “Smitty” Smith

Marvin Kohn Good Guy award winner: Sugar Ray Leonard

Nominees:

Russ Anber

Chris DeBlasio

Sugar Ray Leonard

Steve Pratt

Don Turner

Barney Nagler Long and Meritorious Service award winner: John Sheppard

Nominees:

Henry Hascup

Don Majeski

Dr. Nitin Sethi

John Sheppard

John McCain & Bill Crawford Award for Courage In Overcoming Adversity winner: Christy Martin

Nominees:

Billy Dib

Joe Gallagher

Sampson Lewkowicz

Christy Martin

Yudai Shigeoka