page_title: The Ring magazine Fight of the Year
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: The Ring magazine Fight of the Year / Fights of the Year by decade / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: English: Arturo Gatti at a post-fight press conference
context_page_description: The Ring magazine was established in 1922 and has since named a Fight of the Year, which this list covers.
context_section_description: 2000 –  Erik Morales W 12  Marco Antonio Barrera I – see Érik Morales vs. Marco Antonio Barrera
  2001 –  Micky Ward W 10  Emanuel Augustus
  2002 –  Micky Ward W 10  Arturo Gatti I
  2003 –  Arturo Gatti W 10  Micky Ward III
  2004 –  Marco Antonio Barrera W 12  Erik Morales III – see Érik Morales vs. Marco Antonio Barrera III
  2005 –  Diego Corrales KO 10  José Luis Castillo I – see Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo
  2006 –  Somsak Sithchatchawal TKO 10  Mahyar Monshipour
  2007 –  Israel Vázquez TKO 6  Rafael Márquez II
  2008 –  Israel Vázquez W 12  Rafael Márquez III
  2009 –  Juan Manuel Marquez KO 9  Juan Diaz I
caption: Arturo Gatti at the post-fight press conference after his third fight with Micky Ward, 2003
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