Is David Benavidez overrated?

HW can not move up so that comparison is not relevant

Consistency, AJ made how many world title defences in a row?

And the resume of Benavidez is not as good as either of the fighters you mentioned

 

Joshua never proved himself the best heavyweight in the world so the title defenses argument is meaningless. What was he defending exactly? Not a claim to lineage which he never held.

 

Joshua got kayoed by Ruiz and Dubois was stopped by Joyce neither of whom are in the same stratosphere as Bivol in regards to resume greatness or anything else

I might even favor Bivol over Ruiz H2H despite the size gap.

 

So at the time who was the best HW on the world? Wilder? Fury? Fat Fury who was well off the pace

And regardless of your opinions in the world title defended, that wasn't part of the debate
You mentioned consistency, which is what AJ delivered

Liniage is just some thing people choose to credit a fighter when if suits them

The idea of it is great but people argue about who broke what lineage ect far to often for me to care

I mean also if your using that term, did Benavidez ever prove himself the number 1 in any division? No he didn't

As for the belt AJ defending being meaningless, it's funny how 99 per cent of fighters aspire to hold such a title because it brings money

Crazy how something that's "unimportant" can generate such finances

 

Wow

 

When it comes to this aspect, Benavidez is a total Bitaccch

Somebody needs to give him a nudge and remind him PBC are practically dead

 

PBC mentality still lives within this one

 

We can't be sure who the best was because they didn't fight each other. Prior to Usyk moving up I would say it was between Fury, Joshua, Kabayel and Hrgovic. I would probably favor Dubois over Joshua post Ruiz.

2016 and 2017 is probably when Joshua has the strongest argument.

 

Most of Joshua's wins are over guys who were well past it where we have no idea how much they had left. That's not good. You also have embarrassing losses to Dubois and Ruiz where the manner of the defeat made things even worse.

 

So no HW went on to prove it yeah? Which makes your claim about AJ daft


Prior to Uysk moving up you had Kabayel possibly as number 1?
BS show me proof you actually had that opinion before Uysk activated the HW mandatory option

Not many people had a high opinion of him which is why when it was strongly rumored Fury was going to fight him whilst ranked 15th it was crapped on

Anyway if you genuinely think Benavidez has currently a better resume that AJ, you do you as I'm lost for words

 

Fighters lose, that's pretty much inevitable when you try to fight often as AJ did

The Ruiz fight he rematched and won
Not the prettiest of wins but job done

And the fighters you claim are old were the mandatories to his belts
That's not really his fault is it, at least he took them on

Embarrassing loses to a point sure, but takes like this are why boxers are reluctant to fight anyone and everyone
A lose or two and a fighter is supposedly finished

The Dubois loss probably did signal the end of AJ as a contender but obviously you would have preferred him to rematch him and lose again so you can continue to say how bad he was or is

AJ isn't the best ever, not even the best in the last decade but some takes on him are so ridiculous it begs belief