Most Overated Fighters of all Time

[jack_the_rippuh]

Sugar Ray Leanord
Tito Trinidad
Kotza Ksysu ????

How was SRL overrated?

[dodge]

Jack dempsey IMO is overrated.

[jayschre]

No one in your list is overrated. If i were to say Hamed is overrated, would you agree? Anyone, what do you think?

Exactly who came to mind right away was Prince Naseem! I never thought he was as good as advertised, definately overhyped and overrated!!!

[psychopath]

Nasheem Hamed should top this list . . . he is skilled allright but he is over rated . . . over hyped . . . over publicized . . . over marketed and most of all OVER ACTING!

[grayfist]

Sugar Ray Leanord
Tito Trinidad
Kotza Ksysu ????

Why? Tito and Tszyu have only one loss
apiece. Tito lost only to someone who has a bid for being seen as the greatest middleweight ever. And Tszyu's list of victims is a virtual who's who among jr. welterweights everywhere on this planet. If anything, I think, he's under-rated. He has not been given the recognition that his accomplishments deserve. Who among the current champions, save Hop, can claim he has fought most of those who made it to the contenders' lists in their respective divisions?

And, Sugar Ray, over-rated? After Duran, Hearns, Hagler, the Puerto Rican defensive wiz Wilfred Benitez...?! Many of Leonard's victims are either already in Canastota (like Benitez) or will be Hall of Fame frontrunners, when their time comes!

[grayfist]

The fighter that tops the list as far as being The most over-rated boxer of all-time has to be Rocky Maricano. The most recognized names in the Brockton Blockbuster 's record such as Walcott, Charles, Louis, and Moore had an average age of 38 yrs. old by the time they fought Marciano who was around his late 20's when he fought all 4 boxers and had compiled an average of 13 losses between the 4 when they faced the Rock. Marciano as one of the best NO, one of the smartest as far as planning out his career YES!

Larry Holmes said something similar after losing to Michael Spinks, and many quickly got on his face. Especially, after he added, "Rocky can't carry my jockstraps!"

At the risk of sharing Holmes' fate, I register my agreement with you on the matter of the average age of the great ones Rocky faced, at the time he met them.

Now, if you'll just excuse me, I'll just look for a hole to hide in...!

(Holmes subsequently apologized to Maricano's heirs, who had been at the Spinks fight as special guests. )

[Swifty]

I also think that one of the most overrated was Rocky Marciano, maybe because he's undefeated. Don't think that he could win against the likes of Tyson, Lewis or Foreman.

Tyson and Marciano, that would probably be a war. Marciano and Foreman, I see Marciano getting dealt with like Frazier was. I just feel any brawler who gets hit when he comes in (Frazier, Marciano) would get killed by Foreman, simply because he punched harder and was bigger.

BUT MARCIANO LOSING TO LEWIS!! LEWIS IS SO ***NG OVER-RATED, OR MAYBE IM JUST BLINDED BY MY HATE FOR THE GUY. BUT HIS CHIN WAS SUSPECT, AND HE WOULD GET KILLED IF HE FOUGHT MARICANO IN HIS PRIME.

Remember round one of Tyson verse Lewis. Where Tyson was constantly ****ing Lewis. I see Marciano doing that to Lewis all night. Too bad Tyson was outta his prime and didnt have the heart to fight on. Cause if Tyson did, I reckon he would have showed everyone just how over-rated Lewis is.

I reckon if Foreman ever fought Lewis, he'd kill Lewis. Cause IMO Lewis struggled wit Boxers as tall as him or near his height (VItali). And Foreman could punch harder then lewis.

[Swifty]

Exactly who came to mind right away was Prince Naseem! I never thought he was as good as advertised, definately overhyped and overrated!!!

Remember when Foreman said something like, he'd never seen antyhing as spectacular as Hamed. And Hamed remined him of a young Cassius Clay.
I almost fell off my ***ng chair!

[TheGreat1]

Remember when Foreman said something like, he'd never seen antyhing as spectacular as Hamed. And Hamed remined him of a young Cassius Clay.
I almost fell off my ***ng chair!

he was talking about is flashyness, mouth, and how he could play around in the ring with his hands down putting up do gaurd, and still win fights. he wasn't saying the prince was as good. i understand and totally agree with george

[Tyson'scolon]

Every heavyweight contender of the last 10 years has been overrated. Tua, Grant, Johnson, Maskaev, Whitaker, Briggs, Guinn, McKline, Wladamir K, you name em.... they all fell WAY short once they stepped into the spotlight.