Fighters that get too much criticism?

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  1. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    The forum darlings thread certainly got a lot of attention, how about the opposite route? I’d say Corbett and Fitz fit this build, their awkwardness and underrated speed gets overlooked in H2H matchups imo.
     
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    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Mancini (glorified club fighter nonsense)

    Trinidad (all you gotta do is box him. Easy-peasy). Not so much the case anymore, he now gets some plaudits.
     
  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Heavyweights.
     
  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Oscar. If you listen to this forum, Chavez and Whitaker were gods amongst men and Oscar played the back seat. Except Oscar went 3-0 against them and had (at least) a better career than Whitaker.
     
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    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Sonny Liston and Cleveland Williams.
     
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    Man_Machine Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The "forum darlings" thread might well have gone some way to answering this OPs question as well.
     
  7. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    A lot of the pre Marciano heavyweight champs.
    Tho I must say a couple of em were crap.
     
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  8. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Jack Sharkey, Tunney, Jeffries and Sullivan deserve their own shout outs as well imo, even Johnson and Langford don’t get their due credit in a lot of these matchups.
     
  9. Homericlegend03

    Homericlegend03 Active Member Full Member

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    Anthony was a legit 3 belt champion and gold medalist yet you would think he was a bum off the street the way some people talk about him on here. Wilder was incredibly lacking in skills and technique but my god do some people just go completely overboard when discussions of him occur.
     
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  10. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 OFFICIAL THREAD DIDDLER banned Full Member

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    In recent times, Ken Norton.
     
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    IntentionalButt FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA Full Member

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    Off the cuff, I can think of two Floyds, a Mike, a Masahiko and two Roccos. :thumbsup:

    (all in the IBHOF, but when their names are brought up here it's rarely if ever in a positive light)
     
  12. themaster458

    themaster458 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    GGG and Lomachenko for sure or really any Eastern European fighter that's not named Usyk, and even he has his haters over here.
     
  13. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Dempsey
    Mancini was an excellent mention
    McGuigan
     
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    Yorbals Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The fishnets didn’t do him any favours though
     
  15. Homericlegend03

    Homericlegend03 Active Member Full Member

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    Loma was a darling for a little while but I agree with triple g
     
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