The Most Overated Fighter

1) Duran. Numerous excuses for every single loss. Needing a poo is accepted as a legit excuse by many on here. Lost against the great fighters he fought. SSJ Mntreal Duran apparently couldve beaten every single champion at every weight that night, the only exception being HW champion Larry Holmes. His nuts must be constantly wrinkled from the amount of sucking they get.

2) Dempsey. Apparently is a shout for the no.1 P4P GOAT. If he ever lost it was fixed. KOed in 10 seconds by a fireman with a losing record. Outboxed and outpointed by a morbidly obsese ex flyweight. Ducked his no.1 contender for 6 years. Was inactive 3 years of his title reign. Drew the colour line.

H2H the wizards are overrated. Buchanan, Young, Hopkins, Giardello, Benny Leonard

 

:wtf

 

:bolt

 

I have to dissagree with you on this one.

 

Too many to mention.

 

What's so hard to understand? Axel Schulz, Crawford Grimsley and Lou Savarese were Foreman's opponents during his second title reign. Foreman should have lost to Schulz, Grimsley would later go on to get KO'd by Jimmy Thunder in 3 seconds and Savarese lost a split decision. C level might be a little harsh, maybe not. Don't we on ESB rate our champions by what they do AFTER winning the championship? Read my earlier post.

 

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Crazy mention for Duran.
As a lightweight was unstopable.
Absolutely brilliant in that first with Leanard.
His career afterwards was very up and down when he had non-stop problems with weight etc. and fought way too long.
As a lightweight I would back him against anyone else in history.

 

He may have got "Over" confused with "Under"

 

Rjj,

 

That old chestnut, the man lived in a fantasy world that, sadly, so many gobshites believe every word he uttered. He won rounds 11, 12 and 13 on the judges cards too, so much for lack of training. :yep

One of my favourites was the Pat Lawlor fight, where Duran 'quit' yet again. Just stopped fighting complaining of a bad elbow/shoulder/chest (he was confused which part of his anatomy was hurting it looked like). After the fight, he just dismissed the contest as "practice", he wanted a rematch and next time was "for real". The man was a total dickhead.

 

Isn't being in shape an important part of boxing? I'm surprised he didn't claim the sun was in his eyes.

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it is still clevland "big cat" williams for me.

 

Hipster.

 

this is easy...... calzaghe. is he good fighter? yes but he doesnt deserve half the praise he gets.
his best wins (excluding kessler) were over ppl who were past their peak, even hopkins. never really tested himself, obviously gifted multiple wins and is argued by some to be top 10 goat.