Most over rated wins?

Calzaghe vs Jones/Hopkins

 

Yeah, Gomez was really a featherweight boiling down to 122. He’d been killing him self for years. He came in overweight at 122 for Zarate in 1978. By 1984 his fast living and the physical affects from the Sanchez and Pintor fights had caught up to him. My guess is that Sanchez expedited Gomez’s downfall because he really put a beating on him. It was a special win. Sanchez was a 2-1 underdog and many had Gomez as the pound for pound number one in the sport.

 

Wladimir Klitschko-Haye .Who's Haye in the heavyweight division ? He had a close win against a shot Valuev.
That's all remarkable.

 

Whose to say Pedroza wouldn't have beaten Sanchez?

 

Nah, not really. He did miss weight against Zarate, but quickly made it on the next attempt. Zarate was the one having major issues on that end.

If Gomez was hurting himself so bad with the weight cut, he wouldn’t have dropped right back down after Sánchez and continued stopping quality opponents in title fights.

He was clearly the smaller man in the ring against Sanchez. Hell, he looked smaller against Zarate, too. I always saw him as a Bantam who couldn’t be bothered with the extra weight cut. The 122 pound division was brand new at the time and he saw a golden opportunity there. He wasn’t much bigger than someone like Olivares, though.

 

Zarate was sick as a dog fight week so lost a week of training that’s why he was over. True, Gomez turned pro at 118 but he had to make a bunch of changes to get back down after Sanchez. He moved down out of necessity. It was hard to sell a re-match.

 

Didn't know that. And I was around at the time, reading mags and watching fights on tv whenever I could. I was shocked by Gomez' distraction of Z a r a t e. Interesting.

 

Still, he was clearly the smaller man, I’d say.

I still rate the win very highly, mind you. A good big man beats a good little man, but a great little man can even the odds. Unless he’s in with a great big man, too.

 

Zarate tried to have the fight pushed back a little bit but was told the fine was larger than the purse (for pulling out). He was stuck.

 

I don't think Pedroza beats Sanchez or Gomez. Pedroza was regularly just scraping by at that point.

Sanchez was delivering career-ending beatings to guys like Little Red Lopez and breaking down and stopping Wilfredo Gomez, and Pedroza is barely getting by guys like Rocky Lockridge, Bernard Taylor and Laporte.

 

Wow, that's terrible. And here I thought boxing commissions were supposed to look out for the safety of fighters. Silly me.

 

The key word there, hailed.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

 

Great posts. Tip of the hat to you and @JLP1978 for a nice little rally there.

 

Selective arguing. Sánchez had his share of average performances against lesser men than you just named.

 

You don't think Toneys performance vs Barkley was impressive?