The Underrated/Overrated thread

An aging argeullo?

He was hardly considered aging during the pre fight hype and press conferences. Actually he was picked to beat 'the defenceless scrub'. I like alexis but to say he was aging is a joke. I mean he came back to thoroughly dominate a 140 belt holder like billy costello and if he had challenged for mamby's belt, he prolly would have beat him.

 

Sorry, but I can't see what taking great shots has to do with being overrated.

 

Yeah, it was peak Arguello who beat Costello

:rofl

 

SI called Ali the most over rated fighter...AND they called Rocky Marciano the most UNDER RATED fighter in an issue a few years back!!!!

 

30 maybe past his peak, but aging, hardly.

I dont really say 80 fights, cuz alot of those fighters were against bums in nicaragua when he was a kid with very little amatuer career.

Floyd is 30, i dont see anyone calling him aging, and hes well above his natural weight too.

 

explain how the **** its a trolling post? Argeullo beat every other fighter from 1980-1983, just cuz he gets his ass kicked a couple time by pryor, a man who he was favoured to beat by the way, he gets excused as the ancient 30 year old.

 

Because he was clearly not the fighter that he was at 130lbs. He was still an excellent lightweight, but he was showing some signs of slowing down by the time he met Pryor.

 

He was favoured to beat pryor, wasn't he?

 

It was considered a 50/50 proposition, for the most part.

 

No most people picked Arguello.

 

Taking the shot's he took and winning show's this man was a great fighter, you can't take that away from him. Arguello would have never beat him. No 140 pounder but Pernell Whitaker or maybe(just maybe) Julio Cesar Chavez would beatt him. Just because your lord and savior Sugar Ray Leonard didn't want to fight Pryor doesn't mean you can underrate him.