Tell me how expaserating is it and disrespectful to the sport and its history

Based in a skill h2h level you could argue both points.

 

I don't really pay it too much mind. My expectations are low when it comes to the boxing knowledge of mainstream sports journalists. When I see guys like Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless discussing boxing, I usually change the channel and hope they don't pollute the minds of casual boxing fans with their bull****.

I tend to get more annoyed by some of the stuff I read on boxing forums. I mean, these are presumably hardcore boxing fans, so their knowledge should be better, right? Then I look thru a random thread and read posts of people downplaying Michael Spinks, saying he wasn't any good because he got demolished by Mike Tyson, and then praising what a "tremendous fighter" David Haye is.

 

Because it's speculation and can never be proven.

 

How do you rank them in a skill/H2H level?

 

A lot of people do like to hype up whatever the latest/current thing is. They don't have any knowledge of the history but that doesn't prevent them from saying "greatest ever".

On the other hand, there are others who go over the top in disparaging whatever is latest/current, denying greatness altogether and over-estimating the things of the past.

 

I'm redoing my rankings but from top of my head both are top 75.

 

i was listening to an mma fighter talk about roussey/holm and he said it was better than douglas/tyson because that was a 'lucky punch'. maybe not the point of the thread but i thought it was pretty funny.

 

Why are you worried? It is merely an opinion, that I suspect neither of us agree with. If it came to a debate, I would hope both of us would be able to win the argument rather easily, so there is no need to get so excited.

 

I don't even think it's opinion. It used to bother me, but I realized that most of the people conducting interviews on sports shows are just talking heads and only having a basic knowledge of most sports.

I remember when Mike Singletary was named the 49ers head coach years ago, and the woman interviewing him on Fox Sports said she heard the first call he made when he got the job was to Bill Walsh (who Singletary wasn't close with and who had been dead for some time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGd8gXjtf0

That would be like a woman reporter on ESPN saying to Tyson Fury that she heard the first person he phoned after winning the title was Emanuel Steward.

It happens in every sport. Most of the people walking the sidelines or commenting on camera are just there because they have white teeth, nice hair and can read at a high-school level.

Fans of other sports have the same complaints. Very few people on major sports networks are experts on every sport they cover. And many aren't experts at any sport at all.

 

If you wanna argue their place in history you're entitled to do so. You can argue whatever you want and your arguments have no bearings om whether or not I decide to troll.

 

Having Mayweather as the greatest of all time or Tyson top 10 all time is a matter of opinion. You shouldn't really get mad or frustrated just because some people rate boxers differently than you do.