Boxing in 2014: 10 memorable moments

1 Carl Froch's right hand

Not many fighters have thrown a better right hand than the one with which Carl Froch knocked out George Groves in front of 82,000 people at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night, 31 May, 2014: a perfect punch to settle what had been an imperfect argument. Six months earlier when they fought in Manchester, Groves reckoned he was a victim of a hasty intervention by the referee Howard Foster. He never the less got his rematch, not to mention £2m, the biggest purse of his career. This time, there would be no argument. Froch set up the finish with a double left-hand feint, inviting Groves to guard the right side of his jaw and, thus distracted, the challenger did not see the piledriver right cross that crashed on to his unprotected chin, leaving him in an undignified heap seven seconds from the end of the eighth round, the Guardian reports. 2 Floyd: The Forgiving Part I Floyd Mayweather's charity to fallen friends knew no bounds in 2014. After the LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling was taped telling his mistress it was OK for her to sleep with black people but "not to bring them to my games", the NBA banned him for life, fined him $2.5m and forced him to sell the club. Floyd, a regular Clippers guest of Sterling's at the Staples Center, near his LA property, said of the disgraced eccentric: "Him and his wife has always been respectful to me and always treated me like a gentleman. The recording, that may not have been right, but I'm only going by how he has treated me." 3 Floyd: The Forgiving Part II Mayweather, preparing for his second fight against Marcos Maidana in September, took his understanding of human frailty to a higher plane - and his mistrust of technology a step backwards - when asked what he thought about the viral-class video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his girlfriend unconscious, then dragging her by her hair out of a lift. "There's a lot worse things that go on in other people's households," Mayweather opined, ludicrously. "It's just not caught on video." He further reckoned the NFL should not have fired Rice. After conferring with his people, Floyd did something he doesn't often do: admit he was wrong.

4 Long night at the ExCel It was the latest of nights at the ExCel Arena in London when Billy Joe Saunders beat Chris Eubank Jr, and Tyson Fury beat Dereck Chisora: so late, in fact, some of us were still stuck in a one-hour traffic jam in a car park at 3am, long after the trains and buses had stopped. Still, the night will forever be remembered for Eubank Sr, dressed like a catwalk peacock and strutting between rounds with all his old hauteur and flashing cufflinks intact while his long-suffering friend, Ronnie Davies, told Chris's son, Junior, trailing on points but determined to do his own thing: "Don't tell me to shut up, you've got to go out there and work, and start throwing punches." [Clean version]. Read more