Who is the most underrated heavyweight in history and why

Did my eyes just cross while reading the first post?

 

Usyk

 

I know some probably think frazier is overrated, but I think he's underrated. George was just a bad stylistic matchup for him. Joe was a great fighter

 

This guy really wants us to know he is learning Russian 101.

 

How's he underrated? The majority on this forum have him top 20 p4p all time and many have him top 10 heavy

Sure I and a couple of others may underrate him, but he's either fairly or overrated by the vast majority

Put a poll up does usyk rank over lewis and I guarantee he wins the poll

 

@AdamT because Usyk is GOAT but you don't accept it.

 

My friend on another forum told me all sports evolve and each era has more talent than the last which means Usyk is the best heavyweight ever. He also told me Anthony Joshua is more skilled than Lennox Lewis and that Chisora would destroy the likes of Liston and Foreman due to size modern day training, nutrition.

I'm starting to question myself now, he might have a point

 

Yeah right, I saw how the sport evolved last weekend into a dog and pony show

 

It's a point of view, but I watched inoue again and I'm convinced boxing has not evolved,at least in the past 30 or so years

 

I don't agree with it
Nothing to do with acceptance

Top 50 maybe

 

Very tough call, so hard to identify just one, but I did like AdamT's pick of Frazier as I believe he'd feast on the slobs of the division the last 25 years. I think Floyd Patterson as well, could fall into this category he simply fought in the toughest age in heavyweight history , beginning with Liston's reign into the meatgrinder of the 70's

 

Top 50?

 

Probably Buster Douglas because people have turned him into a 1 fight wonder who caught lightning in a bottle. Someone like Braddocks underrated but when you look at his win loss record at first glance you get why hes underrated. With Buster Douglas the public just shoehorned him into their David v Goliath story he doesn't belong in.

Schreck, Coffey, Lee Murray and Clarence Henry get the least attention of someone as good as them in their respective eras.

Goddard might be super underrated more generally but on this forum hes not underrated.

 

Top 50 is amazing

There used to 8 divisions in boxing now there are more. If you rank the top 7 from the 8 divisions, that takes you over 50

I'm sorry, but he has had about 12 ranked wins, when many others have double that, maybe quadruple that in history.

I honestly am not trolling and I'd don't think beating a guy who lost to Ngannou and joshua puts him ahead of guys like Ali, Duran, pacquiao or Ray Leonard

It's my opinion. I accept I'm in the minority on this forum. Funny though the vast majority of fighters don't class him as the GOAT either