Most Overated Fighters of all Time

[urdaddyinAZ]

I've said this about 10 times before.....IMO Mike Tyson is the most overrated fighter of all time. Besides the incredible fact that he won the heavyweight championship at such a young age....everything else he did in his career wasn't all that great.

He lost to every fighter that wasn't scared ****less of him.....and some might argeue this, but I thing his era's heavyweight division was weaker than that of the heavyweight division now. He was the ONLY decent heavyweight in the game for several years. He got dominated by Buster ****ing Dougles for god's sake. Tyson fans can ***** all they want about this post, but the Tyson hype was awesome while it was happening....but looking back he fought against a bunch of burnouts and bums. He lost to the good fighters he fought(and a couple bums).

[lapulapu]

Erik Morales is nothing but hype. Always fought a stablemate. And his only loses were from a guy who was not his stablemate.

Plus he lost his jrlight belt to a washed up Barrera. But he got very good fans. That's the only thing that he's good at.

[JaNnO]

you people missed the point here...boxing is showbiz, and the guy who sells well will always be blown up to keep the masses interested in him. yes ali was overrated because he was able to market himself and made himself the talk of the town during his heydays. the press and media always want a piece of him because he worked wonders with their ratings. the same is true with tyson, because the cable giant was making money out of him, so was dlh, delahoya and pacman. but it wasn't their fault if people see "something" in them worth seeing. the fact that a fighter is overrated is already a sign that there is that special qualit in him. the people you are saying to be overrated are the more if not the most successful in their career.

in show business, if you don't connect with the masses, you won't go nowhere and nobody would ever wanna pay to see your "show". i guess, it's better to be overrated, than being nobody after all.

[zoo]

Jack Johnson by a long shot.

the only oppenents he crushed was the smallest heavyweight champion ever Tommy Burns, Jim Flynn and a very, very old Jim Jefferies.

Jack will say he was ducked early in his career, but fact is he entered a title elimator for the vacant title in 1905 but he got schooled by Marvin Hart.

During his reign he unimpressively had draws against a 160lbs Philadelphia Jack O'Brein, and a total bum in Battling Jim Johnson (13-11-3).

When he finally fought a real challenger in Jesse Willard he got KO'd, but claimed he took a dive, even though he didn't go down until the 26th round. Seemed reasoned (yeah right)

Basically, he is the most overrated heavyweight champion of the 20th century.

[MikeHunt]

What about Moe, Larry and Curly............

[gustang1969]

does anyone think roy jones jr is overrated

[Solo322]

does anyone think roy jones jr is overrated

no, people know how good he is. everyone is willing to admit that he's great, but they also understand that he got old, weight loss, etc. I don't think i overrate him when i say that he was one of the fastest and most exciting fighters to watch.

[Clay AikSkins]

Mike Tyson.....never rose from a knockdown to win or come from behind to win.

[adrsan84]

Roy Jones jr., Naseem Hamed, and Manny Pacquiao (so far)

Jones fought a bunch of lower level fighters while he was at his prime, never challenged himself.
Naseem Hamed fought nobodys and in his first real challenge he got worked so bad he went into isolation.
Pacquiao is good but not as good as some people here tend to believe, when he knocks out Erik Morales inside of 5 rounds and then knocks out JMM inside of 3 rounds, then he'll be living up to the hype that has been put out for him. By the way I dont think he can do it and I believe El Terrible will win by TKO late or Unanimous decision, though not a blow-out.

[morancito]

Erik Morales is nothing but hype. Always fought a stablemate. And his only loses were from a guy who was not his stablemate.

Plus he lost his jrlight belt to a washed up Barrera. But he got very good fans. That's the only thing that he's good at.

Lapulapu is officially the ******est poster in boxingscene. I don't think it's even close anymore.