Which fighters do you feel are historically overrated

[sonnyboyx2]

Which fighters do you feel are historically overrated and why?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Marciano
Dempsey
Floyd (he will be once he retires)
Barney Ross
Benny leonard

My personal choices for most overrated

[PAC-BOY]

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[Anthony342]

Gerry Cooney maybe. Who did he really beat, besides a shot Ken Norton? Roy Jones a little bit, because he didn't really test himself enough in his prime. Beat good fighters, but didn't fight guys like Darius, Benn, McClellan, but ATG physical gifts when prime. Possibly Wlad because I keep hearing about all his title defenses. Defending a piece of the title doesn't count, only lineal or undisputed defenses do, especially when he's being compared to earlier champions like Joe Louis, so he really only has 11 defenses. A weaker era, but is, to his credit, dominating it. Shannon Briggs too, as some feel his decision over Foreman was credible or that he deserves a shot at Wlad. And almost anyone who retires undefeated usually gets overrated. I don't see Marciano get overrated often though. I mean, I've never seen anyone rate him over greats like Louis or Ali or even Holyfield, etc.

[Suckmedry]

Theres a few.

[juggernaut666]

Theres a few.

great analysis as usual....

[Suckmedry]

great analysis as usual....

Yeah well I mean even the most intelligent and thoughtful responses are made to look redundant by the eloquence of juggernauts prose.

[Eff Pandas]

Ray Robinson is easily the most overrated boxer in history. He's nearly everyones answer to who's the best boxer of all time. Then if you question most people about it they've only seen 2 or less of his fights so they are just parroting what other people have said & really got no clue about how Robinson even fought let alone the guys he beat outside of Jake LaMotta.

Muhammad Ali. He was a better talker than a boxer. Rarely threw body punches. Many of his non-superfights are boring as **** to watch. Not the greatest.

Harry Greb. I believe I've heard the only fight footage of Greb was in Jim Jacobs fight collection so 99.9% of cats ain't even seen this guy fight before. How can you even rate this guy?

In general I think a lot of the old timey guys are overrated cuz there is so little known about them in comparison to what we know about the guys during "our era" & little if any footage of most of them so its easy to make them into mythical en****** to some degree just cuz of that reality.

[The Old LefHook]

Which fighters do you feel are historically overrated and why?

Moderns, which is the case in every era.

[juggernaut666]

Ray Robinson is easily the most overrated boxer in history. He's nearly everyones answer to who's the best boxer of all time. Then if you question most people about it they've only seen 2 or less of his fights so they are just parroting what other people have said & really got no clue about how Robinson even fought let alone the guys he beat outside of Jake LaMotta.

Muhammad Ali. He was a better talker than a boxer. Rarely threw body punches. Many of his non-superfights are boring as **** to watch. Not the greatest.

Harry Greb. I believe I've heard the only fight footage of Greb was in Jim Jacobs fight collection so 99.9% of cats ain't even seen this guy fight before. How can you even rate this guy?

In general I think a lot of the old timey guys are overrated cuz there is so little known about them in comparison to what we know about the guys during "our era" & little if any footage of most of them so its easy to make them into mythical en****** to some degree just cuz of that reality.

THIS..........^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I would definatley include Marciano ,Jack Johnson and Joe Louis ,i would give a full breakdown why but my post would just mysteriously delete !