Are J L Castillo/Corrales overrated ?

The reason these guys are mentioned is because of thier fight. Hearns/Hagler is a great fighter where both fighters were great. But Corrales and Castillo had such a great fighter like Hagler/Hearns, that they will always be remembered. How many fights are Hagler/Hearns and Corrales/Castillo? Not many.

 

no,if anything they're underrated alot of people have a misconception that they were just brawlers which is far from true,ive personally never seen them ranked alongside the fighters you mentioned.

 

Underrated, if anything. So is prime Casamayor, and throwing PBF and Freitas into the mix just made it better.

Too many people don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. We had these guys fighting at the same time as arguably the best period in featherweight history... I already miss those days.

 

Well just in case you were talking about the top 50 lightweights of all time, they aren't in that category either.

 

umm NO... anyone who says this was overrated clearly has no clue.

 

Uhhh, well I don't think I've ever heard of anyone ranking them amongst those guys. So I'm not sure anyone actually overrates them. If anything I think people actually underrate Castillo a bit. He's been the greatest lightweight of the past few years without a doubt, and you still get people disrespecting his talents and abilities in the ring.

He may not be quite as high up in the rankings as some of those guys you mentioned, but Castillo deserves his props.

 

In terms of 'modern' LW's I'd rate Buchanan over Mosley in terms of achievement at the weight, and surely Ortiz is part of the power four along with Sweet Pea, Duran and Arguello.



In an all-time sense you'd be of course talking about Benny Leonard as well as **** loads of others, but I'm talking about the best LW's of say the last four or five generations. The dominant or best H2H of those era's, which is what era I think the thread starter is lumping Castillo/Corrales in with (or isn't, as is his whole point)

Like Gatti and Ward (but a notch above them as well) Corrales and Castillo are decent, crowd-pleasing 'Elite' fighters (that is amongst the top contenders in their respective divisions at that time, as opposed to the Mayweather's, Pac's of this World, and the aforementioned ATG's) raised to another level due to classic battles with each other.

I agree with the thread starter in saying that yes, they certainly aren't up in the upper echelons of LW history, but they certainly rate high in terms of the last ten years. Top 10/20 I'd say. Which probably puts them somewhere down at the bottom 100 if I were to compile a list of say, the top 100 LW's of the past 35 years. Probably :think

 

Nobody compares them to Duran, Whitaker, and Arguello.

Those who compare them (more so Castillo) to Mosley, do it mostly based on achievement at the lightweight division, not talent and ability.

 

Castillo is 1-1 with Mayweather who is one of the best.

 

chico might be a tad overrated because fans still havent shaken off the afterglow of his 1st fight with castillo. he had 3 close fights(the first fight was close until stopped) with casa, pummeled a somewhat overrated popo, got blitzed by may. some fans, myself included, want to think of him much higher on the totem pole because of his entertainment value. castillo is underrated in my book. boxer with really good skills, or brawler/pressure fighter with awesome power. he was both.

 

B+-A- fighters imo.

 

When you put him up against A- fighters he knocked them the **** out (Freitas, Manfredy, etc.) He was every bit as good as JLC and Casa... our perception of him gets clouded by that asskicking he took from PBF. 1. There's no shame in catching a beating from a prime Mayweather, there have been very few fighters who could hang with that version of PBF. 2. That definitely wasn't the best version of Diego, with prison hanging over his head.

You can't put him up with PBF, Duran, Pea, guys like that, but it would take a guy like that to beat him. He knocks out any fighter not on that level more often than not.

 

I think they're both overrated by the casual fan because they had such exciting styles.

 

I see you make up **** all across the board.

 

yeah but that **** wasnt even close!
pbf, duran, whitaker=elite.
thats my point, bro. i say casa is an a- fighter who gets by with his cagey fighting style, ala hopkins. corrales had 3 close fights with him.