It is certainly going to be an extremely busy and exciting one with some terrific fights already secured and the coming union of BoxNation and BT.

Plus there is the regular telecasts by Sky, and now ITV dipping their toe in the water again - albeit with an undistinguished pay-per-view encounter between Chris Eubank Jr and Aussie Renold Quinlan (who?) for the lightly-regarded International Boxing Organization (IBO) super-middleweight title.

With so many events now being lined up across the globe - and time zones - it will surely be a case of sock around the clock for hardcore fight fans. I anticipate there will be some live screenings morning, noon and night - and of course the middle of the night.

So 2017 should bring great ring action for the fight game’s night owls and early birds.

Boxing’s renaissance continues - not that you would notice from the Honours List or annual sports awards.

Boxing was given short shrift in the Honours List, just as it was in the compilation of the BBC's "long shortlist" of 16 for the Sports Personality of the Year awards. This ignored the claims of Britain's current most accomplished pugilistic practitioner, Barry McGuigan's two-weight world champion Carl Frampton.

Yet boxing has never been higher in the estimation of the public or politicians. Odd that.

And you could argue that currently it is Britain's most successful individual sport.

What is particularly irksome is that Amir Khan remains snubbed, and boasts not even a measly MBE despite being Britain’s youngest-ever Olympic boxing medallist at 17 in Athens 13 years ago, a former world champion and someone who has worked hard to bridge the racial divide, contributing so much in time and money to charitable work here and overseas.

Could it be that recent revelations about that acrimonious family feuding ruled him out yet again? If so, that is a shame.

The last year was one of ups and downs for boxing - aptly enough for the fight game - but I anticipate that Britain's world domination (currently the nation has 13 world champions) will not only continue, but may even escalate thanks to the emergence of even more ex-Olympic stars in the pro ranks.

Also, looking into Old Hubbard’s Almanac for 2017, I will predict some apple carts being upset. Such as: Wladimir Klitschko being a tad too ring-wise for Anthony Joshua; David Haye flattening Tony Bellew inside five rounds and young Hughie Fury, providing he gets the opportunity on home territory, out-boxing the New Zealander Joseph Parker for suspended cousin Tyson's confiscated world heavyweight title.

And as for Tyson himself, if he can get himself together, and convince the mind medics and the Board that he is fit to fight, he could be a world champion again by the end of the year. I reckon he might get it on with World Boxing Council champ Deontay Wilder.

Promoter Frank Warren is set to announce seven major fight nights next week as part of BoxNation’s new deal with BT Sport, while rival Eddie Hearn has already scheduled an impressive number of  blockbuster matches, including "The Hayemaker" against Liverpudlian loudmouth Bellew in a heavyweight grudge match in London on March 4.

The most intriguing match-up is 27-year-old Joshua facing 41-year-old Klitschko, both former Olympic champions - 2012 and 1996 respectively - at Wembley Stadium on April 29. Hearn says: "It’s only going to get bigger, with more fights being made, and there’s going to be a domino effect in 2017."

The influence ex-Olympians are having on British boxing becomes increasingly more evident. Before Joshua v Klitschko, the New Year rings in loudly at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn this Saturday (January 14) night as GB’s 2008 Beijing gold medallist James "Chunky" DeGale meets rival champion Badou Jack, a US-based Swede who sounds more like a Mississippi river boat gambler, in a unification showdown to decide which of them is the world's premier super-middleweight.

And there will be more to come, with Hull’s 2012 Olympic lightweight champion Luke Campbell in line for a crack at fellow Brit Terry Flanagan, the unbeaten World Boxing Organization champion, later this year.

Flanagan is a Warren fighter and Campbell is in the Hearn camp but the rival entities seem to have struck a timely truce and it seems a once-unlikely deal is in the offing.

Hearn, who also promotes Joshua, is believed to in the throes of signing even more Olympians, among them last year's talented light-heavyweight bronze medal winner Joshua Buatsi and middleweight Anthony Fowler, cousin of ex-England and Liverpool football star Robbie Fowler.

But Warren is likely to demonstrate that he is not to be outdone. I expect him to announce the prize capture of the world’s leading lady, the first female and now double Olympic boxing champ, Nicola Adams, who would become one of BoxNation and BT’s flagship fighters.

Moreover, she would join a line-up that now includes arguably the most exciting young boxer in the land, the teenage heavyweight Daniel Dubois, who was being groomed as GB’s Olympic successor to 2012 golden boy Anthony Joshua and 2016 silver medallist Joe Joyce for Tokyo 2020.

Instead he has opted to chase his dream of becoming the youngest ever British-born heavyweight world champion.

The 6ft 5in west London powerhouse had spells at several highly-regarded London clubs, including the renowned Repton Boys Club, Lynn ABC and Dale Youth ABC, before joining the Islington Boxing Club as a senior in 2015.

Dubois likens himself to a mixture of Lennox Lewis and Larry Holmes and cites Mike Tyson as one of his childhood heroes.

He has boxing in his blood, as his sister Caroline is an undefeated European amateur champion and his younger brother Prince is also making a name for himself as a junior.

"He is confident, articulate and personable and a formidable exciting addition to our young squad, a genuine prospect who I fully expect will be making big strides over the next year or two," said Warren.

"Of course he has got to learn the pro ropes, but it will be an entertaining journey and Daniel himself has identified the Olympic year of 2020 as the time for him to become Britain’s 10th world heavyweight champion."

In December Dubois won his first senior domestic title at the GB Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, before deciding to pursue his world title ambitions in the professional ranks.

It remains to be seen whether the young man who doubtless will become know as "Double-D" has made the right decision.

But what we know for certain is that 2017 dawns with Britain now the epicentre of world boxing.

Seconds out...ring in the new!