Most Overated Fighters of all Time

[butterfly1964]

marciano is overrated. so is tyson, louis, and johnson, but definetely marciano is far overrated than all the others i've mentioned.

[Panamaniac]

Top 5

aw **** it, let this thread die already.

Yes, but not before I have the last word (at least to this point):

1. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (Best #4# my !!!)
2. Roy Jones, Jr.
3. Lennox Lewis (The two-punch kid)*
4. Rocky Marciano
5. Ronald "Winky" Wright

*Pawing right jab to set-up right cross. Rarely threw hooks or uppercuts.

[BK Saddizzle]

The most overrated fighters of the last 15 years are Hamed and Tyson.

The Prince & Iron Mike did damage for a while til their time came (It happens to the best of them). Overrated are guys like Baby Joe Mesi, the Wladimir Klitchko, Lennox Lewis (He gets props for beatin errbody who beat him, but he had no competition in his era, he fought known guys that were past their prime & tried to call it valid), Tito Trinidad, & now, sorry to say cause I still like him, Fernando Vargas ain't beatin nobody of substance no more! Now Can u Dig Dat?!?!

[Randall_Hopkirk]

Yes, but not before I have the last word (at least to this point):

1. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (Best #4# my !!!)
2. Roy Jones, Jr.
3. Lennox Lewis (The two-punch kid)*
4. Rocky Marciano
5. Ronald "Winky" Wright

*Pawing right jab to set-up right cross. Rarely threw hooks or uppercuts.

Uppercuts were a staple of Lewis's attack. Klitschko, Holyfield, Tyson, Grant, Bruno and Mavrovic all felt Lewis' power from an uppercut and they were on ***** street afterwards.

[amagnin]

I think DLH is incredibly overrated if people think he is one of the best of all time. He basically lost every big fight he was in other than Fernando Vargas. I similarly feel RJJ is overrated if you put him in the top 10 of all time, I think RJJ is a great fighter and definitely is HOF but not one of the best ever. ON the other hand I think Lennox Lewis gets way too much hate. Yes he did get KOd by 2 average fighters but he avenged both of those losses and he beat everybody else he faced. I can't blame him for not having adequate competition in his day or Rid**** Bowe dumping his belt not to fight him. Lewis at his best would stand a good chance of beating any HW in history not because his skills necessarily but he is freakishly tall and has pretty good power. Not many people are able to get inside a jab of a guy that tall. Yes he was boring and limited in certain respects and his chin was a little suspect but he still did pretty well for himself.

[Smokin']

DLH like the guy said. Should of lost to Whitaker/Quartey, he did end up losing to Trinidad (I had that **** a draw), Sturm, the fix to Hopkins, Mosley beat him up good the first time. I thought he took the 2nd fight though. He looks great against B level guys...looks phenomonal but against guys who have the same technical ability as him and A level guys... he is not all that.

[gixxer]

floyd mayweather

[Brockton Lip]

Roy Jones Jr. He fought .

[Allucard]

If you say Lewis is overrated you have to say Klitschko (both) are too, for the very same reasons.
Hoya is also not that overated. He has fought the best of the best and of course if yu do that enough times you lose some. Floyd Mayweather Jr, Tito Trinidad, Bernad Hoppkins, Shane Mosley. Need i say more? This one deserves SOME of his hype, although saying he won every match he fought given it was close is going too far.
Mayweather is not overrated, in fact he's one of the most underapreciated fighters alive together with Bhopp and Ronald winky wright.

[aljon]

Ali, Marciano, DLH, Gatti, Morrison, Dempsey, Quarry ect.. there's many to name, these fighters are underrated by some too though so it pretty much balances..