Fights That You Think Were Overrated ?

Duran-Leonard 1
Pryor-Arguello 1

As I've written about before, yadda yadda.....

 

Hagler Hearns

 

I agree. I actually thought the first fight was the best one.

 

Fury-Wilder that is.

 

Hearns-Leonard 1: Too much boxing, not much slugging. Boxing exhibitions should not in any list of great fights.

Frazier-Quarry 1: Terrible beating. Not a slugfest

Eubank-Benn 1: Dull exchanging. Sloppy punching.

McClellan-Benn: The 1st round was epic and there were several good moments but I remember the fight ended up McClellan clinching a lot when Benn tried to force the action.

Dempsey-Firpo: Just overrated. Simple

Hagler-Mugabi: Round 6 was like 80% action of the whole fight. Imagine watching 11 rounds just to see round 6.

Ali-Frazier 3: I simply never enjoyed it.

Tua-Ibeabuchi: I know this might sounds controversial, but the fight wasn't a war. It's simply untrue. People talked about the fight like it was thrilling epic action packed fight but no. It's just a fight with high and consistent workrate to make you entertained throughout the whole bout but not much anything crazy happen during the "war". There's literally no part that'll make you scream or put you at the edge of your seats. And it's not like they're duking it out, they were cautious and picking their punches properly. Izon vs Wilson is an example of a plain slugfest but at least you can see that their duking it out in an intense way with non stop heavy punching and abandoning their defense. Some fights like Brewster-Liakhovich, Mesi-Jirov and Izon-Lewis that're WAY crazier and entertaining imo.

Foreman-Lyle: I know their HWs, but why they gotta be that slow? They look like their fighting underwater.

Louis-Conn: It was a great fight, but I've seen many fights that are just as good. People rate the fight way too highly.

Basilio-Fullmer: Don't think it's deserving the FOTY tho. Not much slugfest in a 14 round fight.

 

Inoue v Donaire everybody raves over it but although a very good fight i preferred Spence v Porter that year

 

A lot of newer fights. I am with the OP in deeming Fury-Wilder III overrated. It was great for the times, but as was noted, it was sloppy as hell.

Inoue-Donaire is another I find to be exaggerated. It was fun but Inoue was largely in control and Donaire didn't land that many clean shots.

Joshua-Klitschko was mostly a jabbing contest at distance. There were good moments but not enough sustained firefighting for me to gravitate to it. I thought Breazeale-Ugonoh, which happened the same year, was more fun.

A lot of people talk about how great the Gatti-Ward series was, but seemingly gloss over how Gatti dominated the second and was well on his way to doing the same in the third until he hurt his hand. I think Gatti got by with punching low quite a bit in the first, too, although I did like fights I and III.

 

Tyson Furi vs Wladimir Klitschko
Probably the most important fight in the heavyweight category in the last ten years, but it didn't show us anything particularly good quality boxing.
The fight is important in terms of importance, and it is irrelevant in terms of quality.

 

Louis-Conn 1 is no war. Two really good final rounds, but the rest was all boxing. Great fight, but not action-wise.

 

I actually think Leonard vs Hagler is an underrated fight …that gets overshadowed by the controversy…it was one of the biggest boxing events of the 80s …its what I think about when I hear the word “ Megafight”