Oleksandr Usyk Wins BWAA Best Fighter Award

Oleksandr Usyk has been named the Best Fighter of BWAA Sugar Ray Robinson this year (Instagram/@usykaa).

JAKARTA The boxer who controls the heavyweight belt from Ukraine, Oleksandr Usyk, has been named the Best Fighter of 2024 by the American Boxing Writers Association (BWAA).

BWAA has officially released their annual award which named the best 2024 boxers, fights, coaches and managers, as well as several supporting awards on Monday, February 3, 2025.

Usyk, who became world champion, is undisputed by defeating Tyson Fury twice in 2024 and being named BWAA Best Fighter Sugar Ray Robinson this year.

Previously, Usyk also received the prestigious Muhammad Ali-Joeign Fight of the Year award from BWAA. The title was given to him after the first clash with Fury which took place 12 rounds on May 18, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Apart from Usyk, BWAA also awarded the Eddie Futch Trainer of the Year award to Robert Garcia for running his boxing academy in Oxnard, California, United States.

In 2024, Garcia managed to guide rising junior-for-pound bantam-class star Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez, and middleweight interim junior Vergil Ortiz Jnr.

The former boxer from the United States also managed to help formulate the perfect fight plan for Jose Valenzuela to beat Isaac Cruz in August 2024.

Then, Egis Klimas was named the BWAA version of Cus D'Amato's Best Manager. He got this award after successfully guiding Usyk and Vasiliy Lomachenko.

Vasiliy was even able to bounce back from the 2023 defeat against Devin Haney with a win over George Kambosos Jr to secure a lightweight title in May 2024.

Meanwhile, Usyk does not yet have plans for the next fight. There is a possibility that he will meet the winner of the Daniel Dubois versua Joseph Parker duel which took place this month.