Name The Biggest Hypejobs of the last 5 years

James Kirkland

 

David Lemieux

 

Dirrell
Bute

 

Rocky Juarez?

 

bwahaha all brits. nice list but they're all actually pretty good fighters, they're just not elite and will never be.

 

Arthur Abraham
Marcos Maidana
Victor Ortiz
Andre Berto
David Lemieux
Brandon Rios
Jeff Lacy (Calzaghe fight was '05 wasn't it? That'd rule him out)
Amir Khan
Danny Jacobs (harsh maybe given what we now know, and i don't mean any disrespect)

 

Devon ****ing Alexander aswell. People were going on about him as if he were the next Ray Leonard, yet he has no technical ability at all. He has a chin, decent handspeed, work-rate and the ability to clinch, that is it.

 

Oh and how can a list be complete without having Mike Jones.

 

i dont know how you can call a guy who won a world tittle unified that tittle was regarded as the number one when bradley wouldnt face him a hype job. you new boxing fans make me laugh

 

:good

 

whats ironic is that those three brit fighters have unified their division and held multiple belts for a long period of time facing quality world opposition. To their credit 2 of them had hardly no defence but still won and won outside their country.

 

Haye obviously.
Dirrell.
And I'm sad to say I was on the Lemieux bandwagon as well.

 

Yeah, but I respect the fact he fights everyone. Dude has fought: Bradley, Matthysse, Kotelnik, Maidana. Never been stopped, never badly hurt. I think he was hyped after he knocked out Urango but these days people don't really think much of Devon. He actually might be a bit underrated.

As for Rios, I don't think anyone's really hyping him up to be the next Chavez Sr. People just think of him as one of the baddest at 140 with an exciting style and that's actually quite accurate. He can be outboxed but who cares? He has a great chance at beating both Garcia and Matthysse. That says a lot about him.