Marcos Maidana's straight right catches Adrien Broner during their WBA welterweight title bout. Source: Eric Gay / AP
THE best fights of the year, according to boxing expert Grantlee Kieza.
DENNIS HOGAN BEATS NATHAN CARROLL ON POINTS AFTER 10 ROUNDS
November 7
IRISH-BORN strongman Dennis Hogan overpowered fellow Brisbane rival Nathan Carroll to take the Australian middleweight title with a ferocious 10-round decision at Brisbane's Eatons Hill Hotel.
It was a thrilling encounter for the sold-out crowd and fans watching around the country on Fox Sports.
The unbeaten Hogan proved too rugged and persistent with his savage counterpunches, and his pressure tactics stopped Carroll using his skills at long range.
Nathan Carroll lost a classic bout to Dennis Hogan on point after 10 rounds. Source: News Limited
It wasn't enough though as Hogan, a former Irish international as an amateur, banged away with his brutal hooks and uppercuts to dominate the fight.
CARL FROCH BEATS GEORGE GROVES BY TKO IN ROUND 9
November 23
A CONFIDENT George Groves needled super-middleweight iron man Carl Froch relentlessly for months and seemed to have him rattled in the days leading up to one of England's most anticipated fights of the year in Manchester.
Groves said Froch was old, that he was slowing up, that he was in serious decline.
In the first round he looked to be right.
All smiles at the BBC SPOTY awards night but was less happy when losing to Carl Froch. Source: Getty Images
Groves caught the IBF and WBA champ flush on the chin with a left-right in the opening round and dropped him.
Froch staggered back into the fight but Groves hit him from all angles throughout round two.
But Froch kept wading forward catching everything on his granite chin and eventually firing back. As both men fought to a virtual standstill Froch began to hurt Groves and, after a barrage of Froch punches in round nine, referee Howard Foster stopped the fight and Froch was still the champ.
TIMOTHY BRADLEY BEATS RUSLAN PROVODNIKOV IN ROUND 12
March 16
IN his first fight since out-hustling Filipino great Manny Pacquiao, American muscleman Timothy Bradley retained his world welterweight title at the Home Depot Centre in Carson, California with an all-time classic battle against Russia's Ruslan Provodnikov.
Timothy Bradley has proved to be a dogged fighter who has taken on the best and largely succeeded. Source: AP
Bradley remained unbeaten in 31 fights with a close decision after dominating the middle rounds. But he was on the canvas in the 12th and final round after one last desperate barrage from Provodnikov, a Kostya Tszyu look-alike known as "The Siberian Rocky.''
Provodnikov appeared to have Bradley out on his feet in rounds one and two as the bell sounded.
The fight ended with Bradley taking a knee in the last round under withering pressure from Provodnikov, but having won enough rounds to earn a unanimous decision.
MARCOS MAIDANA BEATS ADRIEN BRONER IN ROUND 12
December 14
THE spoilt brat got a kick in the backside.
In a thriller Argentine bull Marcos Maidana dropped cocky welterweight champion Adrien "The Problem" Broner twice and took away his WBA belt with a 12-round unanimous decision at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Marcos Maidana lands a right flush on Adrien Broner's jaw. Source: AFP
Maidana cracked Broner with a right hand in the first round and had Broner holding on. Maidana continued the aggression in round two and dropped the champ.
Broner fought back hard in the middle rounds but in round eight Maidana dropped him again.
Maidana gave Broner a light headbutt under the chin as the fighters wrestled, and Broner, acting badly, flopped on the canvas looking for a disqualification.
A desperate Broner fought hard in the 12th but Maidana took the title.
WAYLON LAW BEATS BRENT ELLIOTT IN ROUND 8
August 29
BRENT Elliott retained his Queensland junior-lightweight title with a split decision over Waylon Law in a slugfest at Brisbane's Eatons Hill Hotel.
Brent Elliott and Waylon Law in the lead-up to their classic fight. Source: News Limited
The lanky Law went down from a right hand on the bell at the end of the first round but fell in such a way that it looked like he was joking. Referee Tony Kettlewell did not apply a count.
He was down again in the fourth.
The shorter Elliott was an aggressive bull-ant throughout.
In a rematch three months later Law gained his revenge with a second-round stoppage.
QAMIL BALLA BEATS JACK BRUBAKER IN ROUND 10
September 12
FORMER amateur star Qamil Balla won the vacant Australian light-welterweight title against Jack Brubaker in a battle of unbeaten prospects at the Melbourne Pavilion, Flemington.
The fight was the main event on the Fox Sports program.
Qamil Balla won the vacant Australian light-welterweight title against Jack Brubaker. Source: News Limited
The Altona North sensation was given a thrilling contest against the Sydney fighter but proved too sharp as the fight wore on and took the decision.
Balla is of Albanian heritage and competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
SHAGGY KING BEATS DAVID GALVIN BY TKO IN ROUND 9
February 28
LIGHT-MIDDLEWEIGHT Shannon King came from behind to stop David Galvin in nine rounds for the vacant Australian title in a dramatic turnaround at the Greek Club, South Brisbane.
Alice Springs fighter David Galvin had more luck in this bout than against Shaggy King. Source: Supplied
Galvin had out worked King consistently and the heavily favoured former kickboxer looked in desperate trouble complaining to his corner about a burst eardrum.
But in round nine, knowing that he needed a knockout to win, King threw everything he had.
A big right dropped Galvin and shortly after was out in his feet when referee Phil Austin saved him from further punishment at 49 seconds of the round.
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