Rememberng these Massive Hype Trains That Got Derailed :

That's him! What ever happened to that guy, he was hyped up to be the next Rocky Marciano. I think he had some health issues and just disappeared with his 'unbeaten' record.

 

WTF is Moreno doing on that list???

He has always gotten way less appreciation than he deserves. Especially compared to those you have listed him among, haha.

 

Broner via Maidana
Bute via Froch

Honestly I feel bad listing any. Even Broner and Bute did have very successful careers going into the fight that took their 0. The hype though, just out of control...

Lomachenko via Salido

^ I think this is the best example possible of undeserved insane over hype silenced overnight here.

 

Matthysse via DSwift

DSwift exposed him for being very very one dimensional. DSwift would utterly destroy him again if they fight again.

He's just that much better.

 

he got a blood clot on the brain a few years back (after the jirov fight I think...?)
I heard a couple of years later he was returning to boxing, but no idea what happened after that

 

Yeah.

Most people should have been realistic about Matthysse and his vulnerabilities.

He did have the resume that warranted it to be a 50/50 fight, even in retrospect in my opinion.

 

Maybe on a lesser scale, but he was building up quite a bandwagon pre-Mares, unanimously top 10 rated, getting compared to Sweet Pea, talk of him out boxing Abner with ease. To see that drop off to the point where I haven't seen him being talked about at all in awhile (other than the odd RBR) despite still being top 2 at 118, qualifies for OP's shitty reasoning of what is a hype job (which I don't believe, as I said earlier).

 

Maybe 1 out of 4 knew anything about Moreno, 1 out of 6 had ever watched him fight, and maybe 1 out of 10 picked him to beat Mares.

 

Because Broner is 24 and hasnt exactly been "found out"

He could conceivably come back and still have a top class career.

Anyone who ever thought he was the next Mayweather was deluded though.

 

Outside of literally one guy on this forum, who have you ever heard "hyping" Malik Scott?

 

Jermain Taylor became undisputed MW champion and beat B-Hop twice...how is he a hype job??

Brock was a good,world level fighter who got an eye injury and retired young, hardly a derailed hype job..

 

Im not a fanboy of either but this is BS. Danny didn't 'destroy' Lucas, and a rematch would be another competively faught bout. This is a 50/50 fight maybe 55/45 in favour of Danny.

 

Hmmm Kelly Pavlick was hyped just like lucus m was.

 

Taylor got to his middleweight title shot basically by fighting junior middleweights where all he had to do was jab to win..... the matches with Hopkins were sort of drawish fights. Remember, Taylor was the POSTERBOY for Everlast during that period, and then we find out soon after that the guy has NO chin, NONE, and starts getting obliterated on a regular basis.


Brock was yet another in a long line of American heavyweights who the media doted on as the next great American heavyweight hope. The networks loved him too because he was educated, a positive athlete role model, "The Boxing Banker" and all this ****........ Not bashing Americans or education, because I'm American myself and have two degrees, but he got dropped on his face in a bad way gainst Wlad just like every other second tier challenger. Guy was clearly nothing special.

 

Hatton and Kessler were very good fighters.

J. Taylor was a weird one. I'd watch him fight and see all these mistakes he made, how he telegraphed his right hand, how flawed he was defensively and in footwork. I'd think "no way is he gonna beat a great fighter with a brilliant mind like Hopkins". While I didn't score the fights for him, they were no doubt very close and competitive.

Then I thought "well, maybe the age of Hopkins got to him and it was a tough style matchup, Winky is far more skilled than Taylor". Again, while I didn't score it for Taylor, it was very competitive and close IMO.

So he fights 3 very close fights with excellent boxers in Hopkins & Wright. Then not long after that, he's barely getting by the much smaller Cory Spinks and then getting knocked silly by The Ghost.