Top 3 most overrated boxers of all time

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  1. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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  2. uncletermite

    uncletermite Boxing Addict banned

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    Louis/Marciano and Jack Johnson.
     
  3. klompton2

    klompton2 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Dempsey
    Roy Jones
    Tie Toney, Carpentier, Liston
     
  4. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Heavyweights.


    Pick any three.
     
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  5. FartWristedBum

    FartWristedBum I walk this Earth like a bum Full Member

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    Max Baer. Out on his own in the over-rated charts. One of the worst, least aesthetic boxers to become champ IMO. Nice guy I think but just......no. No.
     
  6. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Lewis
     
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  7. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Contemporary: Roy Jones

    Pre-1950: Cerdan

    Cop-out pick that brings grand total way over 3: 70's heavyweights. It's the halo effect of Ali's star power, and some guys having success against him, that lead to the entire generation getting H2H accolades that stretch too far.

    Some people act as though every subsequent generation of heavyweights just forgot how to fight once Ali retired and that the only few people ever capable of challenging him happened to have, coincidentally enough, fought in that same era.
     
  8. ribtickler68

    ribtickler68 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ali.
    Calzaghe.
    Hopkins.
     
  9. Berlenbach

    Berlenbach Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rid**** Bowe
    Sugar Ray Leonard
    Floyd Mayweather
     
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  10. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Brilliant
     
  11. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Ricardo Lopez is there or thereabouts. He was a wonderful fighter but Jesus Christ some of the things people write about him.
     
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  12. slash

    slash Boxing Addict Full Member

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    tyson
    jeffries
    benitez
     
  13. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch
     
  14. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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    If Roy was 25 today, this would be a Roy Jones forum, with the amount of threads about him.

    Look at the interest that Kov and GGG have on here.

    I think that would x 10 if Roy was peak.

    He's criminally underrated.
     
  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Well Jones gets his due at 168lbs. Probably gets a bit low-balled at 175lbs. But I think he's a tad overrated in the ATG stakes at 160lbs.