Top 5 most overrated boxers of All Time

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  1. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    I watched Norris fight that war with the can earlier...the one where he gets clipped in round 2 and looks like he's about to die right there and then?

    ...Embarrassing.
     
  2. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    Troy Waters?

    Not a can mate...One of our best of that era. Pickings were slim but he was world class.

    His fights with Brown and Rosi proved he wasnt just some no hoper from half way across the globe.

    But if you are using that fight to beatdown on rooster..then its cool :lol:
     
  3. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He was more accomplished than Lalonde so if Ray is as good as you say, he would aim straight for Mike.

    Again, he wasnt man enough for any real challenges. Just a series of bogus matches in a bogus comeback following a bogus retirement with a bogus excuse


    It doesnt make sense to make your comebacks at an older age where the risk only goes up

    I always wondered about that tho. How come RL would abandon the thumbless glove after 87

    Sounds like a remedial boxing tour
     
  4. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    :lol: Yeah but can you imagine how often Rooster would bring it up if Leonard almost got put to sleep by a Troy Waters level fighter at his peak? You would never hear the end of it.
     
  5. My2Sense

    My2Sense Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :lol:

    You just got done describing a 32-year old Hagler as...
    And then you added for good measure...
    Oops. :lol:


    Yeah, it's not like he took their titles or anything. :nut
     
  6. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why would I be upset? It wasnt my man that fell short but rather yours

    Tough break for all you down under. Next time, train out here in the States where all us winners come to roost

    Get it? Roost? :lol:
     
  7. My2Sense

    My2Sense Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    OR he would aim for a bigger opponent in a higher weight class for another title(s); which is exactly what he was doing by fighting Lalonde.

    So a guy that just beat you, an undefeated co-champion, and longtime champ with 12 defenses aren't "real challenges"??

    :nut

    Yeah, "bogus" matches with world titles, top rankings, and millions of dollars on the line. :nut

    :lol:

    And taking those senseless risks is part of what makes him an ATG. :deal
     
  8. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's what superior competiton does to a man, even someone as good as Hagler.

    What was Leonard's excuse?

    Again, Duran was 38 when he beat the current title holder Barkley for the title and Leonard didnt have half his fights

    Duran won. Leonard didnt and was favored.

    Maybe it's a good thing he was afraid to mix with Nunn
     
  9. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Too bad he couldnt deal with someone in a lower weight class that was quality-like Norris

    Not when as Ray would say "Hagler had lost a lot of speed and was counting on the slowness of hagler".

    That totally cheapens it for the sport, getting sloppy leftovers and trying to sell it to the public


    Yeah, I would say that two titles in one night vs some tomato can holding one title qualifies as bogus

    Boy, I bet you wish now I hadnt shown back up this soon. You're just not ready for me yet

    :lol:
     
  10. Sweet Pea

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    Certainly more logical than ranking Terry Norris #1 all time, which you've stated.
     
  11. My2Sense

    My2Sense Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So Duran didn't fight "superior competition" then? :patsch :nut

    The Same, seeing as he had had even more fights against Hearns and Duran than Hagler did.

    Hagler had less fights than Duran as well.

    You mean the way Hagler didn't win while favored over Leonard? :nut
     
  12. My2Sense

    My2Sense Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So Hearns, Duran, and Benitez weren't quality?

    :nut

    You mean the way Norris said the same about Leonard when he fought him. :lol::rofl

    Really? Leonard must have some otherwordly god-like power, to be able to "cheapen" one of the most highly anticipated and highest grossing fights of the decade with just a few sharp words. :lol:

    You're right, I wasn't ready for comments that could sink to this level of inaneness. :lol:
     
  13. Maxmomer

    Maxmomer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is redrooster pulling some elaborate prank or is he serious?
     
  14. redrooster

    redrooster Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Get your eyes checked. I ranked him over Leonard and deservingly so based on the slapdown given
     
  15. My2Sense

    My2Sense Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Do you rank Jackson, Mullings, Rosenblatt, and Boudouani over Norris then?