Post Your Unpopular/Controversial Boxing Opinions

Muhammad Ali was good, but nowhere near the greatest heavyweight of all-time.

Joe Louis's 25 title defenses are virtually meaningless due to his quality of opposition.

George Foreman, Earnie Shavers, and Mike Tyson all had extremely overrated power.

Sonny Liston was a *****.

Larry Holmes's jab wasn't that good.

Wladimir Klitschko's resume, chin, stamina, right hand, left hook, jab, uppercut, body punching, in-fighting, outside-boxing, and versatility are all insanely underrated.

Evander Holyfield's heavyweight resume is sort of pathetic. Fought a lot of no-names, washed-up bums, and average fighters. When he stepped it up, he lost.

Ruslan Chagaev, Sultan Ibragimov, Sam Peter, and David Haye are all top 20 heavyweights all-time (top 10-12 if we're going head to head).

Jersey Joe Walcott was a level or two below a prime Calvin Brock, who in turn is one of the most underrated P4P fighters of the last half century.

 

The Heavyweight Specialist. :rofl:rofl

 

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- Norton beat Ali in all 3 fights.

- The US is robbery central of the world, even worse than Germany.

- Steroid/PED abuse in boxing is mainstream.

 

I love Calzaghe, and think he gets way too little respect on this forum.
On the other hand, i think that most other british fighters are way overrated.

I believe that no fans of any other sports are as harsh when it judging their athletes as boxing fans are.

I believe Bob Arum is an absolute cancer to the sport, and no individual as done so much to destroy the sport in modern times as he has.

I will be cheering my ass off for Pac if he ever fights Floyd... but i wouldn't put a penny on Pac, even at 4/1 odds. Floyd will simply school Pac if the fight should ever happen.

I'd say that the majority on this forum know more than me about boxing, but most of them don't have a clue what the word objectivity means, so their opinions don't have any kind of value. (There are many exceptions to that too obviously).

 

I agree with most of your statements. But I think Pac will do better as you expect, he will lose though :yep

 

A Chin is the most important attribute for a fighter to possess. That is a Fact.

 

Valuev is a selfish lover. He never returns the favor if you know what I mean.

 

Carl Froch has a mediocre chin at best.

 

You're not playing by the rules. You're just trying to bring all the past heavies down so that the klits look good.

All its doing is making them look bad though and pushing people against cheering for your boys.

 

Malignaggi couldve been great if he had power (already mentioned)
Mayweather will have a tougher fight with Cotto than if he fought Manny
Pacquiao cant go down to 140 anymore and is just saying that to make his fights seem more important
Martinez will beat Mayweather if they fight above 150 the size difference is to much

 

Good list very good

 

Nah.....you´re joking I´m sure of that......

 

Good post!:good
We all know past HW's were overrated because as soon as East Euro HWs could compete they won easy....