Hypejob: (bole) noun Rhetoric . 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. Let's keep this agenda free if possible. Without fans we wouldn't have a sport so everyone one of us is serving some sort of purpose. That said; many of us tend to get carried away for various reasons. Who are your top hypejobs past and current? Objective fans will have the easiest and most accurate answers we can be sure.
Devon Alexander qualifies, I think. He hasn't made a single improvement in quite a while and I'm sure everybody can agree he's not nearly as good as many made him out to be.
Kelly Pavlik. Made the bigtime and then failed woefully against Hopkins. Since that loss he's looked nothing like the fighter he apparently was, but when you look back at what he actually did, it's apparent there was a lot of hype and not a lot of substance surrounding him: A TKO win over Edison Miranda, who was a feared puncher at the time - Miranda had previously only lost 1 fight against Abraham, but when you saw his performances (including another 3 losses) since fighting Pavlik, it became apparent he was nothing more than a slugger who had made his name from a series of KO wins over lower tier opponents. A KO win against Jermaine Taylor (after nearly being KO'd himself in the 2nd round) - this really was a case of a lucky punch winning the fight for him. The rematch against a gunshy Taylor went the distance, and Taylor's performances since have been very ordinary, including 2 KO losses. A keep busy fight against Lockett that he won by KO as expected. Picked apart by Hopkins. Pavlik is a solid boxer with a good punch, but nowhere near the level that he was being hyped up to be.
How about Sam Peter? Yeah he won a title, but I've read stuff in the past year from back in 2004/2005 where he was being hyped as the next great heavyweight, the next Tyson, and some savage beast of a man...and he never even looked like he learned how to throw a proper punch, almost lost to McCline, looked like a slightly faster Oleg Maskaev against...Oleg Maskaevatsch, and then got worse and worse despite trying to get his weight down. Sam is tough, but there are some fights where you cringe when you watch him.
Almost wrote something in the opening post about that. You really think so or are you just a funny guy? That temple shot doesn't remove him from any equation in my objective view. See his last fight? The kid looks pretty ****ing good still.. Against a nobody. I don't think he'll go as far as some people might have thought at one point. Never did. He gets hit too much and allows himself to get trapped too often. Against heavy hand fighters like Rios that could spell disaster. And we know Rios is no world beater. Among potential others.
Yep, all that "Nigerian Nightmare" stuff kind of faded once he stepped up and started fighting real opponents :yep
I was a lurker for a while and I've seen people compare him to Morales & Barrera. he hasn't looked good since the loss honestly. tentative and more of a laborer now than anything else. he was always pretty stiff-legged and sloppy on the defense imo.
True. He's been unsteady. For sure. He's been getting a little bit looser as of late but his defense is ****ing garbage. Gotta agree 100%.