Biggest Hypejobs of recent years?

Coming from a guy who has always backed him and prolly always will, I gotta say Zhang was getting a bit overhyped in the wake of the Joyce wins.

I remember around that time there was a thread that made a fantasy match up of him and Ali, and there was an ungodly amount of people picking Zhang. Listen, he's one of my favorite active boxers and despite his recent loss I still think he has a decent chance against most of the current top ten, but... Ali, really? The only way he beats Ali is if he stands in for Holmes in their fight, and that's not exactly an achievement to write home about.

 

When he first showed up, he was getting a lot of hype. But I think they quickly ended it and took him to pasture once it became evident he isn't anywhere close to listed age; Can't make money off an old man.

 

He will fight just once this year, and still be ranked in the top 10 HW's afterwards. It is a pathetic state of affairs.

 

Massive hype job
Eddie will sell snow to the Eskimos as usual, and hype him up to get another title shot

 

Gotta agree. I respect the fact the fact that he at least stayed active and sought out somewhat competitive opponents…. But boy did he get found out each and every time someone put it on him… Chisora But more hyped basicly.

 

Most of these names here are young guys with their careers in front of them. No they aren't elite but who says they can't develop into something great in the sport. We could have called Canelo a hype job after the whipping he got vs a lightweight named Floyd Mayweather......

One lost given to a mid 20 year old is not the definition of a hype job. Sometimes, it's the media that puts the 'elite status' on these fighters well before they've gotten to that point. The fighters are simply doing what they have been training their entire lives to do. There confidence in themselves has to be that they are ready for the world.

 

I dunno. Who do you think he would take on? I see him fighting another complete bum in September-October of this year, or even later, winning a meaningless fight and then taking another year off.

 

Someone with no power and a glass jaw for sure. Preferably 50 years old

 

Exactly. We might see one of Eddie Hearn's bait-and-switch moves. He spent months promoting a rematch between AJ and Whyte, before Whyte lost badly to TF and his career collapsed. Hearn talked, and talked about an exciting match-up between two heavy hitters with an interesting history--I knew the fight would never happen, and said so, on multiple boxing sites. Sure enough, like 3 days before the fight, Whyte "mysteriously" tested positive for PEDs, and the fight was off, and AJ fought 40-something Robert Freaking Helenius instead, in a snoozer. So Hearn might do that again--in fact, if he schedules a fight between AJ and a serious contender, I will fully expect the fight to be cancelled and the last minute and a bum swapped in instead. That scenario just played out a few weeks ago with the Joseph Parker/Daniel Dubois fight, of course. Promise the fans filet mignon, and serve them soggy leftovers from the back of the fridge instead, that's a recent and common ruse in professional boxing.

 

Canelo losing to Floyd Mayweather Jr =\\\\\\\\\= Jared Anderson getting absolutely dominated and KTFO by a Martin Bakole.

 

Not sure if you are capable or not, but if you aren't even going to try and use your comprehension skills to understand the point, then please direct your conversation to someone else. I'm not going to continue wasting energy on people who simply looking for attention for the sake of arguing. No where did I say any match up was equal. I stated that you can't count out a young fighter who still has their entire career in front of them. Hype Job is usually associated with someone who has shown they can't and/or won't grow and get better after a failure to be great. Jared Anderson just lost a few months ago. Is his career over now after his first loss?

Did mentioning Canelo offend you? Should I have used Lomachenko losing his 2nd professional fight as an example. Would that have made you feel better?...... Try to used those comprehension skills buddy.

 

1. You literally wrote "We could have called Canelo a hype job after the whipping he got vs a lightweight named Floyd Mayweather". But that would be dumb, unlike calling Anderson a hypejob, that's my point.

It'd be silly to argue that a 21 year old Unified World Champion with multiple title defences, that's already had a very successful boxing career, and who's shown to have a high level of ability in Canelo, losing to an ATG in Mayweather makes him a hype job. It'd be silly to argue that a 24 year old double Olympic champion that's already had a very successful boxing career and who's shown to have a high level of ability in Loma, losing to world champion Salido in their 2nd professional fight, makes him a hype job.

It WOULDN'T be silly to argue however, that a 25 year old that has achieved nothing, who has already struggled with the tomatoes cans he's supposed to crush, who doesn't look like he has champion potential on tape, and who cares so little about the sport that he's already said he plans on retiring by the time he's 27 years old, losing to a gatekeeper level fighter in Martin Bakole, makes him a hypejob. There's very little chance that Jared turns into "something great in the sport", imo. At least Daniel Dubois and young Wladmir Klitscho with their technical flaws, were athletic freaks. Jared doesn't even have that going for him, so i'm not sure what hope he has tbh.

2. Calling people buddy or pal condescendingly is so cringe inducing. Leave that lame ish for redditors I beg you.

 

Wow, people calling (multiple) boxing champs hype jobs. Wilder and Joshua might not have lived up to their respective hopes, but they were world champs and feared.

 

i usually appreciate your reasonable posts but this here ... you do not mean it . Far from a crystal clear legacy , yes , but after 5 years world champion , 10 title defences and nearly 50 hw fights with an incredible ko rate surely not the biggest hypejob of the last years .

 

I'm afraid I do mean it.

Great achievements, and he wasn't a failure - he'll retire rich and he got far more achieved than anyone with his resume and abilities had any right to...

The fact of the matter is, though, that he was being debated as top dog in the division and a future atg pretty high up the list when he'd never beaten a single legit contender - and even when he'd beaten Ortiz (whose own resume is pretty damn thin) it still wasn't a sure thing that he ever actually did beat a single contender (because it's not clear Ortiz really was).

In terms of resume vs what he was hyped up to be in a H2H sense...
It's difficult to think of many boxers that get close to that level of overhyped and overrated - in that sense, absolutely no way is any list of hypejobs complete without him.

(And again, that doesn't necessarily mean he was a failure or that he couldn't be entertaining to watch).