Was Trinidad Overrated?

That is a fair assessment if all you saw was Tito's latter part of his career, but Trinidad had a very underrated jab and could box off the back foot if need be and show some very good defensive capabilities, and Trinidad was a two handed fighter, since Tito's reign I haven't seen another fighter with a better right cross than his...

 

Yawn.

All this boring overrated **** has to stop. No of course he wasn't overrated at all. Tito was never rated as the p4p#1, he was never widely considered the equal of Roy Jones or the second coming of Ray Robinson, he was always rated appropriately - as one of the best fighters in the world in his prime and as one of the best offensive fighters of his era. And he was both of those things.

I don't know why there's a new gimp on here every day thinking it makes him look really outspoken and insightful to say someone was "overrated". 9 times out of 10, it's bull****. It certainly is in this case.

Yes, obviously if you remove punching power from an extremely aggressive, offensive-oriented fighter then he would be a much lesser fighter - that's so blindingly obvious it's embarrassing to even have wrote it on a boxing forum. That's basically an Einstein-calibre insight to match comments like: "If Willie Pep had a **** defence, he wouldn't have been much of a fighter really".

Sorry, **** thread. :-(

 

Let's say he gets a little more credit than he deserves. Trinidad wins every phantasy match-up on ESB vs. Pac or Floyd in a lopsided fashion which is ridiculous.

 

To add to what others have said...he was also a very accurate puncher, he was obsessed with his power by the time he got to joppy but a closer look at his earlier fights shows he was a pretty good boxer. There's no doubt in my mind he would own the current JrMW division....Martinez included.

 

The Martinez that got Ko'ed by Margarito, and gassed and got dropped by the recovering alcoholic/weight drained Pavlik, people here is foolish, and are prisoners of the moment

 

I highly doubt Tito would win a lopsided poll on ESB against Floyd and Pac, especially against Floyd.

 

He would se up the left hook with the jab and he also had a big right hand. You don't jsut "get chances" to land a big shot in boxing unless you are fighting bums. He had the elbow shoulder bump thing and the jab and a fercious body attack. If you look at a lot of his fights, he'd be down early but the body shots would take their toll and even excellent boxers would be worn down by the end.

He didn't land those left hooks by luck. he dropped a guys hands with the body attack, then stood him straight up with the jab and the right (and the elbow :yep) then finished him off with the left. You can say he didn;t have a plan B but out of 45 guys only 3 made it past plan A I'd say that's pretty damn good.

 

Not really overrated, we just now know that he was out of his element when match with technically sound boxers, against come foward fighters he was a beast...but any elite boxer/mover I would pick against Tito evertime...

 

For someone who claims to have watched "all" of his fights, the logic is suspect.

Puertoricans like donaire???

 

if anything he is underrated especially in this website,his run at welterweight was crazy never lost

 

if tyson did not have power he would be crap, too.

 

Only by the boricuas... heh.

When he was younger he had some good stuff. He didn't mature like he should have though.

 

At the time he was, sure. Nowadays, not so much. Not when people are acting like Marquez was clearly the greater fighter.