NOMINEE	THE SKINNY
	Overrated	The heavyweight division	The big boys failed to produce even one watchable fight, as the marquee players continued to wrangle over possible purses instead of titles.
	Underrated	The lightweight divison	Practically unnoticed, these ambitious, fearless kids -- Angel Manfredi and Arturo Gatti, particularly -- produced memorable wars.
	Annoying	Prince Naseem Hamed	Britain's inventor of the 12-minute ring walk and other assorted burlesques better fight somebody good -- and fast, before his grating style of entertainment goes the way of the Spice Girls.
	Breakthrough	Mills Lane	Had his 15-minutes of fame last year when he disqualified Mike Tyson; now gets a full half-hour of airtime as a TV court judge.
	Uplifting	Don King	Embattled promoter escapes the hoosegow once more, demonstrating that we are all, to the degree we can afford a top-notch defense, free from the Feds.
	MVP	Oscar de la Hoya	He fills the Alamadome for a nothing fight, proving that boxing remains open for business -- no matter how sordid it gets -- when the right personality happens along.
	Storyline to Follow in 1999	Mike Tyson's comeback	No amount of psychoanalysis can protect this troubled guy -- whose principal problem is that he doesn't really want to fight -- from yet one more self-destruction.