Dillan Whyte overrated

Well said. I'm sure he'll come back and he'll keep making good money as long as he keeps fighting good opponents. Brit fight fans don't really glory hunt so even though he's lost, the majority of the fans will still keep tuning in for his fights and I'm sure we'll see big fights and big nights from him in the future.

 

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the circle jerk of second/third tier scrubs continues, they can all beat each other on their day, chuck in breazele Martin and shot old delboy chisora, carlito takam at a stretch, King Charles Martin, all these guys get destroyed by the top two with ease. Shot old Luis Ortiz beats most of these guys without breaking sweat. BRUTHA USKY too probably.

Joyce a nice guy to add into the mix, could smash ajs China jaw, break his fragile heart easily. Then lose to delboy chisora.

DDD the only other guy I see to join Fury and Wilder at the top table,

 

He's still an entertaining fighter who will be in some good fights, I don't see him as anything more than a Chisora level fighter, but there is nothing wrong with that. I will probably enjoy watching him more now if hopefully the Sky/Matchroom hype dies down a bit.

 

Sad but true

Whyte being in the mix shows how terrible the division is

Povetkin no doubt wishes he was 10 years younger, he would have a great chance being the man

 

As with all things cases it depends on who's doing the rating. A lot of people underrated Whyte, calling him a sloppy bar room brawler who got lucky (about five or six times in a row). Those people were clearly wrong.

Then a couple of people, one poster in particular, wanted to consider him one of the very best in the division, on par with Joshua and Fury. Again clearly wrong.

We've seen enough of him now at the top level to rate him somewhere in the middle to lower half of the top ten. He's a pretty solid dude, a tough game fighter who'll always cause fighters problems, but whose own sloppy habits will lead to him getting beaten by the very best, and occasionally fighters a level below that.

He's kind of in Brewster, Rahman, Ron Lyle territory. Not a bad thing to be, from a fan's POV.

 

He did not win that fight clear(Parker won). He should have been DQ or at least a point taken away, and not scoring a KD, which would result in a clear lost to him.

I don`t know how you can be that biased, and not mention this, and even say it was a clear win, wow.
Parker energy was gone from that headbutt as well. But still he won that fight if the referee was not corrupt.
If anything Parker deserved the rematch, cause he was robbed.

 

He is not overrated. He is as good as his resume, but he aint nothing special. He got beat by a pensioner, who was 10 time better than him in his prime, so that kinda speaks for the level of the current HW.

 

You have your opinion I have mine. But Whyte landed almost double the punches Parker did and Parker himself said post fight in the ring the better man won. When the fighter himself thinks he's lost it's usually a sign that he lost.

 

Lol my brother kept on saying how dangerous Whyte was. That he improved since losing to the bodybuilder. He seen the vicious stoppage of the bouncer Lucas Browne, and said he would avenge the Joshua loss. I watched the fight between Povetkin and Joshua, and Anthony completely shut the Russian down, and outboxed him later rounds. Whyte has the sloppiest defensive stance I ever seen, and it isn't a wonder he's been put down by 4 different fighters!

 

A ped cheat with a chinny jaw. Not good for his legacy

 

I don`t know what Parker said after the match. He is a gentlemen, but everyone who doesn`t have biased view knew that Whyte win that match thanks to the headbutt.
He deserved a point deduction, and he would have lost that fight, this is the whole true.
If there was a KD that round Whyte would have lost, simple as that. And he deserved a point deduction, clear as that.

You can be bias as much as you like, but this is the truth.

And boxing is judged round by round. So Whyte may throw 1289328389289 punches in 1-2 rounds, and do nothing in the rest and lose that fight, you know ?

Also Parker was way better before the headbutt and it was clear as a day he lost all of his energy due to the headbutt. Same with Joshua against Ruiz, when Ruiz land the KD(but it was a clear one there).
So without that illegal shot, Whyte would have lost even more clearly- fact !!!

 

That's not what everyone was saying back then. I can assure you that.

 

I've said the same myself for a long time.

It isn't that good, it's a pretty average division, the difference from the Klitschko era is.. we have a competitive division.

That's all, we have a group of top heavyweights now that are roughly around the same level, maybe two or three are a little bit better than the rest but the gap isn't insurmountable and the "shocks" are just not that shocking.

 

Overrated or underrated by who? People who have never boxed or watch a few fights here and there then join a boxing forum to talk bollocks about a sport that they don't understand lol.

There is a big drop from Joshua and Fury down to the rest of the top ten. Whyte is somewhere in that group.

 

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