Thursday 14 January 2016 12:34, UK
Tyson Fury, Joe Gallagher and Anthony Crolla have won prestigious honours at the RING Magazine awards.
Fury has been named Fighter of the Year, Gallagher scooped Trainer of the Year while Crolla took home the unique Most Inspirational prize in the 87th edition of the awards.
New world heavyweight champion Fury has been rewarded for brilliantly ending the 11-year reign of Wladimir Klitschko last month, a fight which also earned the Wilmslow man the Upset of the Year award.
Fury took the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles in Dusseldorf, Germany, after a convincing points win against Klitschko to cap off a stellar year for British boxing.
Fury beat Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin, Roman Gonzalez and Floyd Mayweather Jr to the prize.
Gallagher has been handed his Trainer of the Year award after masterminding world championship victories for Liam Smith and Crolla.
As well as WBO light-middleweight champion Smith and WBA lightweight title-holder Crolla, Gallagher has guided the undefeated Scott Quigg towards his upcoming blockbuster against Carl Frampton.
WBA super-bantamweight champion Quigg meets IBF king Frampton, live on Sky Sports Box Office in February, and will have Gallagher in his corner.
The Manchester trainer beat Peter Fury, Abel Sanchez, Floyd Mayweather Snr and Arnulfo Obando to the RING award.
Crolla, meanwhile, has earned the Most Inspirational accolade after recovering from a fractured skull to win a world title.
Injuries sustained as he tried to apprehend burglars put his career in jeopardy but, in November, he took Darleys Perez's title after an initial draw last summer.
