Over rated and under rated

Valero is overrated.

 

People now use them as an indicator of quality instead of what it should be, which is to measure the amount of credit the media and fans give fighters. In a Liston vs Tyson debate, someone told me that Liston had "underrated" speed as a response to Tyson being said to be faster. Well, that's all well and good, but that "underrated" speed was still slower than Tyson.

In the current context, all those terms do is mislead people. That's why we now have the phenomenon of people getting rated higher than they should with the reasoning given that they're "underrated". In Paul Williams' case, he was rated in the top 10 P4P and people were still calling him "underrated" even as some outlets had him as high as top 3 P4P.

The bottom line is, when people cite someone as over and underrated, it's absolutely pointless unless they point out the source doing the under or over rating. Those terms should be a measure of hype and credit, not of the fighter themselves.

 

Over rated: Rating > Resume, accomplishments
Under rated: Rating < Resume, accomplishments

Over rated: Joe Calzaghe
Why: people act as if he is one of the greatest when his resume is pretty weak.

Under rated: Jermain Taylor
he was over rated, but since he got KTFO everyone saying he is bull****, and Ward will beat him easily, i dont noe but he is a decent boxer.

 

Underrated is when you get to feel smug by having a crush on a boxer that, obviously, no one else is smart enough to 'get.'
Overrated is when you feel burned by the boxer having a huge win or loss and now everyone else is suddenly an expert on him.

I hated Kellerman before it was "cool."
David Diaz is still horribly underrated.
No one else understands Vic Drakulich the way I do.

 

overrated. Dirrell, Paul Williams, Erdei, khan, mosley

underrated. Ricky Hatton (cos he lost to pac and floyd the best 2 fighters on the planet everyone has wrote him off)
kevin mitchell, bika, donaire

 

Direll, Khan and Mosley arn't overated IMO.

 

just to clear this matter up. khan got found out by a puncher in prescott. since then he has been hand picked powder punchers apart from barrerra who was just too old.

dirrell, well i heard so much hype from americans when i had seen little of him, dirrell himself talked a good game before the fight but i was unimpressed with what i saw. also hes in the super 6 but name 1 good fighter he has beaten?

mosley i meant to mention that he is overrated to the extent that floyd and pac are scarred to fight him. dont take this the wrong way just my opinion and i am not saying he isnt or hasnt been a great fighter but i just feel he is overrated at where his game is at now.

 

Joe Calzaghe is overrated.

 

PBF is underrated

 

agree

Mayweather is rated ok

 

1. Cotto beat Mosley

2. A great but much smaller Pacman easily beat Cotto.

3. You don't understand it and think Mosley is a top fighter.

=equals : OVERRATED

 

Mosley is not overrated at all!

 

I don't think i have seen anyone rate Erdei on here before he usually gets ripped to bits.

Bika is overrated on here imo anytime the guy gets brought up people think he will be a champ.