Who is the most overrated heavyweight, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Tyson Fury, or others?

Resume aside, I would have to say Michael spinks. Never had a good build either.

 

I meant top 2 at HW, not p4p.
P4p, he's nowhere near the top 10 for me.

 

WTF?
What Tyson?
The 18 y/o that didn’t make the Olympic team in 1984 because he couldn’t beat Henry Tillman x2??
That’s a long bow to draw by even the biggest Tyson nuthugger and exhibit A of why he’s the most overrated fighter out of those listed.
Thanks for proving my point.

 

Corrie Sanders. Never lost a h2h fantasy match-up

 

Fighters mature at different ages. Tyson peaked young but his longevity wasn’t anything like Foreman’s or Ali’s. That’s beside the point. We can only match them prime for prime. Foreman barely had an amateur career before winning gold at Mexico. It’s actually a remarkable achievement compared to Tyson being groomed from 12 years of age to be heavyweight champion by the D’Amato team and still couldn’t even make the Olympic team.

Foreman at 41 batters Tyson at 41 too btw. So what? It means nothing.

 

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Except they had the resume to back up their claim to greatness. Except for his Super Bowl lll win and some 4,000 yard seasons his resume is pedestrian. He had an outsized personality and with it came great cultural influence.

Some posters pooh pooh the notion of cultural influence but athletes are entertainers. I haven't watched more than an hour of tennis, golf, soccer, and hockey in my life but I can tell you who Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Beckham , and Wayne Gretzky are.

 

Amateurs we’re talking about.

 

I'm not convinced Olympic Tyson beats Olympic Foreman. In any case I can name a lot of heavyweight champions Big George whups when they are both twenty years old.

 

Do you believe the guy that got whupped by Henry Tillman could whup the guy that whupped Ionas Chepulis ?

 

Doubtful. To be fair Tysons style was far, far better suited to the professional ranks but hey! So was Foreman’s.

Chepulis had a pretty amazing amateur record and 10 years maturity and experience on George. Foreman on paper should lose that fight but he destroyed Chepulis.