is floyd underrated or overrated these days?

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  1. -GhettoWizard-

    -GhettoWizard- Well-Known Member Full Member

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    this guy seems pretty polarizing. there are people legitimately calling him the best and there are others asking "well who did he beat"


    what say you?
     
  2. Staminakills

    Staminakills Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    under rated by most, over rated by some. some people refuse to acknowledge he is late 30's and its starting to show.

    I do however , see ariza helping drastically in his last couple/few fights
     
  3. Golden Boy 360

    Golden Boy 360 Boxing's Biggest Cash Cow Full Member

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    Guy looked great against Canelo and Guerrero. After the Maidana fights his stock plummeted.

    I have a feeling that Maidana just had an extremely awkward style.

    I have to wait to see how he looks in his next fight to decide whether he is on the decline or not.
     
  4. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Depends if you're reading nonsense from MVC or Boxing_Master. They're to two polar opposites of the idiocy on both 'sides'.
     
  5. southpaw123

    southpaw123 Active Member Full Member

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    This. I think he's the same guy that fought Canelo. Watching his fights after he served time you can see his balance is just a bit off and his reaction time has slowed down slightly. None of these have had too dramatic of an effect yet though. Still top 3 boxing today.
     
  6. Tancred

    Tancred Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Overrated by some of the tarts on here
     
  7. WillRose_

    WillRose_ New Member Full Member

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    This. No one has an easy night against this version of Maidana.
     
  8. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Both. People who say **** like "there is no blueprint" or "he can even beat Golovkin" or "no one at or around welter is a challenge", they overrate him. Then you got guys that say he loses to everyone he didn't fight, they underrate him.
     
  9. Sugah Jay

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    he's arguably the best technical fighter on film and the only defensively complete boxer ever. he's heavily underrated for his great attributes.
     
  10. acie2g

    acie2g Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    right now I'd say overrated mostly by his haters Mayweather is by a margin still the best in the sport and him consistently fighting high profile fighters coming off high profile wins is something more of these younger fighters should do to establish themselves.

    Saying that though at this point this guys legend has grown so big he can't even fight champions in his weight class without it being looked at as a bad matchup and if he doesn't fight MW's in some cases SMW's in his 6th division he's ducking the guy is good but at damn near 40 not THAT good.
     
  11. Sugah Jay

    Sugah Jay Guest

    nah i think floyd, b-hop, and ward are better than rigo technically.
     
  12. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Not sure about that. Technically, Floyd, BHop, and Ward might be better like someone else mentioned. But Rigo is definitely the quickest, strongest, and most athletic of the 4.
     
  13. The General

    The General Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rigo is a better pure boxer than b hop and ward definetly, and better technicaly
     
  14. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Ward and BHop use a lot of "veteran" tactics. Floyd is starting to. Rigo will be there soon.
     
  15. Lady Girl

    Lady Girl Kneel Before Zod! Full Member

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