5 most hyped / overrated fighters on my list

Plenty of brits that are overhyped to our domestic audience.

Across the pond there always seems to be a lot more noise about Wilder or either of the Charlo brothers than their achievements merit.

 

Fury overrated his size keeping him there boxin ability not slick has ugly jab .
Jeff Horn after Pacquiao fight overrated to the moon an back fooled lot of people hardly anyone beleaved me .
GGG I agree there overrated a bit to much lov him tho
Ruiz overrated after AJ people thinking hell bet Fury an Wilder an hav all the belts .
After AJs lossing to Ruiz .
Could cee how overrated AJ really was .

 

1.Spence
2.GGG
3.AJ
4.Callum Smith
5. Artur Beterbiev

 

Not a huge fan of the overrated/underrated narrative, as people seem to allocate these labels based on a boxer's most recent fight, and a bad performance and/or a loss can be due to all sorts of factors. Bad match-ups being a huge one.

I guess the current inspiration for the 'overrated' discussion is Spence. And yeah, he didn't handle Porter as comfortably as maybe people thought he should have, but he did show heart and a willingness to go to the dark places Porter chose to take him.

That aspect of Spence's boxing DNA hadn't been tested before the weekend and was, by default, underrated. His boxing skills seem to come up short in the same fight, so you can say they were overrated. And so we go on. Underrated, overrated.... underrated, overrated......

Is there a boxer alive who is rated correctly? lol

 

It's always about the "big three" isn't it? As if they are head and shoulders above the rest of the division.

You people make me sick

 

Not very many Usyk was rated right at CW .
But now that he is a Heavyweight .
Is now overrated a little . unless he wins a few heavyweight bouts .
Won't be as overrated as right now .
Mike Tyson rated right . But when released from custody was overrated .
Rating is just a word for the public to help decide who to back an can be misleading .

 

Canelo... Wonder how far he'd get without NSAC, Vegas boxing officials & Oscar's $$$$$$$$$$ backing him ??
Crawford... When is he going to show us The Cold Eyed Assassin ??
Ward ... Probably the dirtiest fighter in the last 20 years
And of course the King of all the Over rated
Floyd Mayweather Jr

 

Barely anybody is saying Usyk will beat AJ, Wilder and Fury, I'm not sure where you've got that from.

What more could Usyk have done to please you? He beat the top 3 cruiserweights in a row, all away from home. He couldn't have done any better, he's done everything that has been asked of him.

You can't overrate someone who is 10/10, 11/10 doesn't exist. Usyk became undisputed champion and beat all the cruiserweights he needed to face. Bellew ticked off. Bredis ticked off. Gassiev ticked off. And he's beaten more than just them as well..

He isn't overrated. He is just given the credit he rightly deserves.

 

crawford, spence, Ruiz

 

Today.

1. Luis 'The Boogeyman' Ortiz
2. Deontay Wilder
3. Terrence Crawford
4. Canelo
5. Tank

Happy to explain.
Of all time.

1. Mayweather
2. Tyson
3. Pacquiao
4. Jones Jr
5. Lomachenko (in a historical sense)

 

1.GGG
2.AJ
3.Spence
4.Fury
5.BETERBIEV

 

Pretty good list all around.
I do believe Canelo is overrated, but I dont think he belongs on a Top 5 list...
Although i would agree he has been well matched along the way.

My List:

#1 Usyk . No question here, have never see a fighter with so few fights against opposition with such little diversity being trumpeted so hard. Not even Kelly Pavlik, he at least holds a couple wins over Edison Miranda and JT. But as soon as he got beat, all that hype went up.amd out the window. Same will happen to Usyk

#2 GGG...ive never taken the bait on this guy. Made a name for himself beating up tomato cans and smaller guys moving up. Always struggled against top tier competition. Now hes going out like a diva chasing Canelo.
But that never stopped anyone from putting him in the conversation with B-Hop or Hagler

#3 Tyson Fury...I won't bash him too much. IMO his record is pretty on par with Wilder 's, but for whatever reason we keep tagging this guy as the best HW in the division...I'm sorry, if you fight in the HW division and you're that big, and you STILL can't occasionally KO even a fringe contender, im just not buying the hype

#4 Loma....lomas actually pretty good, he's the best fighter on this list...but he's been passed off as the most highly scientific fighter ever by some of the boxing media elites. He did have a nice little run a couple years back, but im still waiting for him to prove his greatness the way a guy would if he truly were the most highly scientific fighter ever. If it means he need to move up in weight, then thats what he need to do

#5 Hrgovic....honestly i only heard of this guy on this forum. I was curious because everyone was hailing him as the future of the division, so I pulled up a couple of his fights on YouTube. After further research, i can say that I really have no idea what all the fuss is about. Just looks like another big stiff target , reminds me of when Monte Barret decapitated Tie Fields along the ropes. I guess he did beat Kevin King Pin Johnson, for whatever that is worth

Thanks for another great thread

 

Golovkin chasing and fighting smaller men, lol. He's not even a big middleweight by any measure. He wanted Cotto and Alvarez because they had the middleweight belt, remember? The Brook fight was a fill in after Eubank, now SMW, pulled out late in the negotiations.
Golovkin was ducked by many until he aged. People forget there was a time when BJS would not fight him and openly admitted he wanted to age him a few years and now he is calling for the fight, right on schedule. When champion fighters duck someone, it's ridiculous to say they are over hyped.