Who was/is the biggest hype job in boxing history?

He lost 2 or 3 fights as well, one of them very very clearly, Castillo 1

 

I agree with you in case of Ricky Hatton.

 

Some boxing experts put Juan Manuel Lopez into the Top 10 P4P list during his prime which I didn't agree. But after his first KO loss, he got knocked out again and again and again. So, he's one of those biggest hype jobs. No doubt about it.

 

How about Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzales?

 

No. He's a hall of famer low level ATG. 46-0. Something like 15 title defenses and 4 weight classes. Three or four of his victims might be hall of famers too. That's legit. You might as well call Nonito Donaire a hype job. Losing one fight at the tail end of a miraculous career doesn't make one a hype job.

 

Of course the agenda's are flying left and right in this thread, like you'd expect.

You can't really call a boxer massively overhyped yet when the evidence is still out on him, or if the career is done and he fell completely short of what was expected of him.
Even Floyd, mentioned as "The Best F-er" by some of his rabid fans isn't that massively overhyped in reality, despite all the shannigans and the "undefeated" sham. He had an ATG career.

A guy who certainly was/is massively overhyped is his "successor" Broner. The man that made mockery of being a 4 weight champ and basically left the trope meaningless. The guy who basically lost all but one (DeMarco) of his bigger fights, and showed how clear robberies get brushed under the carpet over time and treated like legit wins if the boxer is popular enough.
The "next Mayweather" was basically a good beltholder who got more opportunities as any boxer I know, including vacant straps in 2 different weightclasses against guys that shouldn't even have been near a titlefight and another one edging a past it Mallignaggi, which might be his second best win overall.

Other total hypejobs include a couple of heavyweights, which I have to admit kinda fell for 2 of them myself before their "exposure". Price, is an obvious one, and I thought he'd be at least in the mix at the post Klitschko era, but hype went a bit crazy for a while, certainly among the Brits. Another one is Seth Mitchell, who I also added to my post Klitschko shortlist, but revised that a bit just in time after the Witherspoon fight, ending his career with one of the easiest to predict KO1 losses in history against Arreola.
And there was Haye... Man did he get hyped! 100-0, 100KO's in fantasy matchups was kind of a running gag around here. Even the dreadful Valuev bout couldn't slow down the hype even a little bit, and even got spinned into a "positive" with false statements as "first to wobble the giant" and "the only way to beat the giant" (the giant being Valuev of course).
Some fans even went as far as calling others "stupid" for favoring Wlad over him, as he would last maybe 3 rounds tops.

 

I think this is a solid answer despite Floyds undoubted ability. His career to me symbolises what's wrong with boxing at the moment. The obsession with remaining unbeaten, the reluctance to take risks, the careful cherry picking of opponents, stuffed records etc.

He was a very talented boxer but give me some of the great fighters of the past who took on all comers and, shockingly, occasionally lost, over floyds carefully managed record.

 

I don't think Hatton was overrated, he was just very very popular, there is a difference.

Most people knew that he would struggle against FMJ and Pac, but it didn't stop us wanting him to win. To say he was just a European Level fighter is just ridiculous though.

I suppose to some in sport, (a lot in boxing), people don't like to be seen to follow the loser, so as soon as they are little exposed, jump straight onto their back.

 

I was going to trawl for a list of 'great white hopes' but GC will do as their collective avatar.

 

My gawd reading this thread you would think that boxing history started in the past 10 years . . . The greatest hype job ever was Primo Carnera. . . .read up on him.

 

Tarver lost the first fight wide and won a couple more rounds in the rematch. Go find one person who agrees with you.

 

Yeah , but still you can’t call him a hype job .

 

No

 

Yeah and Canelo was suppose to "expose the hype job Golovkin" and that never happened either did it.