What UK Boxer at the moment is overrated?

apart from the 'kessler beat him bit', the other parts are just a tad hating:nono

oh,and good morning

 

Whilst I agree with you that his progress has been slow and that the names he has fought thus far have not been worthy of building him up to a superstar. Surely he must be given the chance to prove himself at the level people believe he should be at before he is called overated. If he goes to america and beats some top names winning a title along the way then I think he would have lived upto his hype. However if he goes over and struggles then I sould say that he was vastly overated. My point being that the proof is in the pudding and at this stage with Kell Brook its more of an assumption that he is overated as apposed the a reality.Btw this is just my opinion...

 

Very fair post. I suppose it is down to semantics. I don't think Brook is overrated by the media or general public (as he's barely known outside of boxing circles) but I feel he is being overrated by posters here. They talk about him as some incredible talent and I don't see it.

I have said many times that I hope to be proven wrong, but he is definitely not the puncher some seem to think he is and people just say "he's elusive" because he is from the Ingle camp. But he is not elusive at all, and backs up with his chin stuck out and does not move his feet well enough so resorts to leaning back.

This was shown in the Karl David fight where he got dropped. He wasn't particularly hurt, but he got his feet too close together due to his lean back defence that is nothing like the limbo **** Hamed used to pull, and then got tagged and was off balance already.

Anyway...in general you're right it assumption but when I see people saying he would KO Khan I just want to know what on earth they are seeing. Even if you felt he had the raw talent to be great, surely you would still have to concede that if he was thrown in with a top level guy now it would be such a huge leap in class that it would be a serious problem for him.

 

In fact Strike I'd say it started with the myth the media, I.e Sky, perpetuated about Brooks 'talent'.

 

If you haven’t beaten anyone of note, been tested serious, are still fighting at domestic level after seven years (or something) and your fans think you’ll beat a proven world-class fighter by KO - then you’re overrated.

He deserves to be called that until people are either more reasonable about his prospects based on what he’s done, or he actually proves he’s worthy of it. But he won’t, because he really not very good.

He’s fast becoming like Ajose Olusegun but with more Olu G Rotimis around to boost him up.

 

You're probably right, I suppose I haven't seen him in the papers much and I haven't heard general Sky Sports hyping him, but on the shows I saw they did wax lyrical a bit, predictable Naz comparisons when they are not remotely alike in any aspect of their fighting.

 

Having just seen another thread where Brook has stated that sky want him as the next ppv superstar then I will now concede defeat in my argument...... beacuse that is definatly being overated.

I do still belive that he does have some great natural ability, in perticular his movement. And I do think he would compete with most top 10 welters (excluding pac / flloyd and Kahn if he moves up)