Worst P4p #1 Fighter Ever?

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old fart, whoever it is now is probably a good shout.

 

It's Usyk.

 

Canelo as he only got to P4P number 1 due to corrupt officials.

 

get ready for Boy_Mach to start with his 101 version of the saga… long winded jibber. Lol.

 

He wasn't the worst, but Lomachenko has got to be one of the most overrated p4p #1 ever. He was somehow rated over Crawford and Ward. Called the GOAT by Joe Rogan. All while having fewer than 13 fights at the time. Crazy stuff.

 

In some sources, Crawford for facing no noteworthy P4P caliber fighter (usually rated P4P #1 by American biased sources like ESPN)

 

I really believed that Shane Mosley was going to have a better career than Floyd Mayweather

 

They almost turned the trick for him against Bivol also. Hard to believe some tried to defend those scorecards.

 

There were posters here …in the classic section…saying that he was better than Roberto Duran

 

No, Donald Curry seemed awesome after crushing Milt McCrory to unify the WW title, then Lloyd Honeyghan came out of nowhere, but with me, my family and friends knowing Hagler personally, Donald was too much to swallow. However, he wasn't a wildly irrational choice.

The Curry family chin was an issue for me, especially after Jun-Suk Hwang decked Donald with a non telegraphed right off the ropes in taking him the championship distance. (Hwang had no jab to speak of, no movement or reverse gear, yet he proved a fine defensive fighter, with typical first rate South Korean conditioning. Went 42-5 with one stoppage loss that he avenged. Hwang was limited, but no kind of bum.)



My candidate is Terry Norris. After seeing what Julian Jackson did to him, there was no way I was buying him as a p4p #1, regardless of his HOF WBC LMW reign. He was simply too vulnerable, and never proved he could have been competitive in a rematch with Jackson.

 

Yeah, well I'll never forget the look on Joe Rogan's face when Holly Holm exposed Lousy Rousy as the ten million dollar fraud. I tend to disregard Rogan as a fight commentator, although he's probably the most evolved martial arts striker ever. (And to think some angry contestant on a show he hosted actually tried to pick a fight with him!)

 

As for your statement on Norris. I think he would have been more than competitive had he fought Jackson in a rematch. I think he would have pummeled Julian for much of the fight and Jackson's only hope would have been catching him again like he did the first time.

 

I thought of this recently and remembered that Ring cover he was on where he and Hagler were co-fighters of the year. I wondered to myself looking back if Curry truly deserved it. He crumbled right after that. At the time I thought Curry was a slick, sharp fighter and I had high hopes. He was certainly good and looked sensational knocking out McCrory, but how good was McCrory really?
I think he stands as an example of fans rushing to rate someone too quickly.