Who are the biggest hype jobs in boxing history Names like Adrien Broner Audley Harrison Zab Judah David Tua Mark Breeland Jeff Lacy Michael Grant Felix Verdejo All come to mind. Who am I missing?
Boy, we certainly disagree on what a hype hob is. Of the group you list, you have numerous world champs and others who did very well. They may have not lived up to expectations but hardly any of them were hype jobs.
Judah, Tua, Grant?!?! I agree Fogger I don't understand how these accomplished fighters are hype jobs.
To me, a guy like Tye Fields is a hypejob. Or someone who when they get their first shot gets demolished despite having a big push from the industry. David Tua, for example, has knocked out world champs and was just in a tough HW division. Zab Judah gave the best boxer of our generation legitimate problems. I can agree on Jeff Lacy, if he wasn't Calzaghe's signature performance nobody would remember him.
Judah did a great job of making Junior Witter, Cory Spinks (rematch), and Vernon Paris look like hype.
Michael Olajide he was at once considered the best Middleweight out of all prospects including Michael Nunn it didn't quite turn out that way.
I almost forgot about Jorge Luis Gonzalez. He should have just tattooed a target on the left side of his jaw because no one ever missed him with an overhand right.
David Price. The lad started his career demolishing all before him, and after he took John McDermott apart in one round…the same McDermott that gave the unbeaten prospect Tyson Fury a major headache… many here in the UK at least, said this boy would get a title shot sooner rather than later. Price was 6ft 8 of pure KO power. The kid was dynamite…. …until he ran into Tony Thompson who brutally exposed Price’s flaws, not once but twice as Thompson knocked him out on a couple of occasions. The David Price Express train turned into the David Price Hype Train and was now derailed.