The Sugar Ray Robinson Award (previously known as the Edward J. Neil Trophy) is given to the Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year.
The original purpose of the trophy was to recognize "an individual who did the most for boxing in the previous year."
The members of the BWAA vote to decide the best boxer each year regardless of weight class or nationality.
[1] The 2009 award was renamed after boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.
Starting with the 1990s, the BWAA also began to give an award for "Joe Louis Fighter of the Decade."