Who was/is the biggest hype job in boxing history?

Sorry man, but Jacobs was supposed to leave on a stretcher. Never happened..

 

You being in the fight game is pure bull, you know what!

 

The thread states "who is the biggest hypejob", it doesn't necessarily ask for exposed hypejobs. Though realistically, Golovkin was exposed as somewhat of a joke against Alvarez.

I'll agree with @yeyo monster though, Golovkin is the biggest recent hypejob.

 

Because Ive done, & still do at times, somethins you're not capable of doing theres no need to cry PeeWee

 

Pete Radamacher....fought Floyd Patterson for the HW belt IN HIS PRO DEBUT. Eventually had 23 fights and got ko'd 6 times.

 

Mike tyson

Considered an ATG heavyweight, has a very weak resume and a style that was exposed.

Miguel Cotto

Considered an ATG and a massive PPV star, all his best wins are over disabled fighters

Saul Alvarez

The biggest star in boxing, totally exposed by an old, small floyd. Benefits from regular robberies, usually avoids his obvious challengers

Ricky Hatton

Hugely overrated in the uk, barely above euro level in terms of skill but hyped as p4p material

 

this guy went far imitating Mayweather without the wins or talent. And then guys like Mike McCallum who were so good are quiet and he does not get the attention he should have.

 

No, he won a gold medal, best Chuvalo and a couple other guys, and knocked Patterson down.

Conor is worse and had a more popular fight.

 

It’s a true statement. Boxing is becoming a joke just to stay relevant and it’s ruining the quality of the sport. It relies more on headlines with agenda ridden narrative over tangible ppv buys now days.

One legitimate star is doing good (AJ) while the other big cash cow is being character assassinated for a 37 year old hype job whose irrationality has always led him to avoid real challenges for the majority of his career and he doesn’t sell.

This crab in a bucket mentality needs to stop. Networks such as HBO are killing themselves while they continually lose money and it’s because they push agenda for certain fighters that casuals aren’t even interested in. These fighters aren’t even loyal to them which exposes their desperation even more.

Everything is too formulaic now and people are set up in the most video game esque-asinine ways to be successful (like losing your first title shot and then hitting the restart button to get another title shot your next fight) and still fcking up.

They’re also trying to kill the past. They want you to focus on fighters breaking or making new records but when you do research or investigate the context of these accomplishments (like Triple being credited for defending an interim type belt for 10 of his 20 defenses or a 30 year fighter whose gotten opportunities no fighter has ever received in history while being the sports’ slowest starter) you come to realize these are just watered down stats that at the end of the day will mean jack ****.

Only clowns who are easily amused get off on that bs. Cheap clowns at that because you guys will watch, but you don’t dig into your pocket for that nonsense.

It’s like Star Wars. It use to have good storytelling with greatly developed characters that all meshed wonderfully together. Great world building. Deep meaningful themes. Wonderful context. No identity politics or agenda.

That has now been replaced with these out of this world Mary Sues who are unbelievably unbelievable. Lomachenko is Rey. Golovkin is Kylo Ren. Poorly developed characters who are being sold as the absolute greatest characters in everdom but falter to guys who at best are fringe HOF fighters.

You guys celebrate that bs all you want. I’m entitled to my opinion and I’m free to support or not support what I want. When I do see the “One”. I’ll be the first to let you guys know but yes. In conclusion. Boxing is just selling hypejobs since it doesn’t have a replacement for Floyd and Manny Pacquiao.

 

Leon Spinks? Adrien Broner? Mark Breland? Lance Whitaker? Prince Naseem Hamed? Michael Grant? Julio Cesar Chavez Jr? Lucien Bute? Chris Eubank Jr? Jeff Lacy? David Haye? David Price? Howard Davis Jr? Shannon Briggs? Gerry Cooney? Jess Willard? Audley Harrison?

Juan Manuel Lopez, Robert Guerrero, Giovanni Segura, Glen Johnson, and Chad Dawson all made Ring's p4p top 10. Jermain Taylor was rated #4 p4p in 2006.

 

Where will you go now then?

 

Hypejobs has always been part of the sport though and it's part of what makes the sport exciting, it's not really the promoter's fault that it works, the fandom itself enjoys falling into hype and being part of it. Look at UFC as well, the combat sport that's doing better at the moment, everything is about hype and always has been. UFC's level of hyping up fighters/fights makes boxing look like golf.

And actually we can even go further, today's western SOCIETY as a whole is all about hype, look at the movies, you see garbage like Star Wars and Avengers getting ridiculous amount of hype everywhere and people eating it up, look at the music industry as well, garbage ass songs getting billions of views.

 

He'll go where he's needed.

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Not on my card in the first fight. And not on a lot of other people's too, hence the rematch! Even if you had him winning, it was a struggle. He should never have been ranked so highly. For me, definitely the biggest hype job of this century.