Most underrated and overrated boxers of all time

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  1. Kell Macabe

    Kell Macabe I don’t know s*** about boxing Full Member

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    Give a couple of examples of both very underrated and overrated boxers.
     
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    Underrated: Curtis Cokes, Horacio Accavallo, Peter Kane, Hiroyuki Ebihara, Lou Salica, Young Corbett II, Willie Joyce, Bob Montgommery.

    Overrated: Marcel Cerdan, Georges Carpantier, Ricardo Lopez.
     
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    Mike Tyson.

    For both.
     
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  4. Kell Macabe

    Kell Macabe I don’t know s*** about boxing Full Member

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    Agreed
     
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    Under - WK and VK brothers.

    Over - Holmes and Joe Louis
     
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    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    McGrain, nice call on Salica and Accavallo. I'm curious, why did you think Ricardo Lopez is overrated?
     
    Fogger, Dec 26, 2021
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    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Probably the best example is the way he appears on ATG flyweight lists and is picked over other ATG flyweights, having never fought a flyweight in a meaningful fight.
     
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    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    I have not seen that but you are right. He has no business being rated at flyweight.
     
    Fogger, Dec 26, 2021
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    Underrated: Mancini, Cuevas, Cervantes, Rafael Marquez

    Overrated: Bob Foster, Riddick Bowe, Honeyghan
     
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    Even IBRO did it, mad stuff.
     
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    Under : Mamby, Apostoli, Joe Brown, LaPorte, Legra, Humez, Rosario.
    Over : Liston, Walker, Marciano, Tunney. keep well.
     
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    Underrated. Thomas Hearns. Boxing first 5 division champ
    Overrated. Mike Tyson. Nowhere near the best ever or even best heavyweight ever
     
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    Kell Macabe I don’t know s*** about boxing Full Member

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    Tommy Hearns is one of the most compleat boxers ever. Blinding speed, great boxer or puncher and a nuclear right hand.

    only department he lacked in was solid defense.(A pretty big department to be fair.)
     
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    His defense wasnt great but it was adequete. Not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Same with his chin.
     
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    Overrated

    Mike Tyson, Ali, Joe Louis, Lennox Lewis, Holyfield, Haye. SRR, SRL, Hagler, Hearns.
    Ward, Roy Jones.
    Underrated

    Usyk, Tyson Fury, WK, VK, Povetkin, Chagaev, Marciano, Dempsey, Golovkin, Canelo, Manny Pacquiao, Kovalev, Loma, Darius.
     
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