Most Overated Fighters of all Time

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Julio Ceasar Chavez-A very good fight but he was not the fighter that everyone made him out to be, at times he was very protected as well.

Terry Norris-he was damn fun too watch but he liked to beat uyp on little guys who couldn't fight back, when in with a puncher (Jackson,Brown), he showed he wasn't half the fighter everyone thought he was.

Erik Morel-never got it never will, this guy just was boring as ****, it was only a matter of time before he was given a defeat.

Hamed-any real fight fan knew that once the prince stepped up his comp, he would be through!

Hector Camacho-although he is light years ahead of his son jr, he was a pit and pat ***** who when forced to fight usually came out on the wrong end, definately an overrated fighter.

Tommy Hearns-he is maybe the best fighter on this list, either him or Chavez, usually when he stepped up he lost, and usually lost badly although valiantly. I consider him great yet I still believe that with a chin that bad you have to be a little overrated, although I love him.

Paul Spadafora-you are the worst piece of ****in **** in the sport, thats all.

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Julio Ceasar Chavez-A very good fight but he was not the fighter that everyone made him out to be, at times he was very protected as well.

Terry Norris-he was damn fun too watch but he liked to beat uyp on little guys who couldn't fight back, when in with a puncher (Jackson,Brown), he showed he wasn't half the fighter everyone thought he was.

Erik Morel-never got it never will, this guy just was boring as ****, it was only a matter of time before he was given a defeat.

Hamed-any real fight fan knew that once the prince stepped up his comp, he would be through!

Hector Camacho-although he is light years ahead of his son jr, he was a pit and pat ***** who when forced to fight usually came out on the wrong end, definately an overrated fighter.

Tommy Hearns-he is maybe the best fighter on this list, either him or Chavez, usually when he stepped up he lost, and usually lost badly although valiantly. I consider him great yet I still believe that with a chin that bad you have to be a little overrated, although I love him.

Paul Spadafora-you are the worst piece of ****in **** in the sport, thats all.

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I agree with most of what you say.....but Chavez is not overrated. In fact, there's this whole sect of fight fans who either hate him, or think he's overrated. This makes me think he's UNDERRATED, lol !

Seriously....he was never protected.
He fought guys like LaPorte, Rosario, Mayweather, Taylor, JL Ramirez.....& Whitaker.

If you mean protected by the judges & such....yeah, he was that a little bit.

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There is no question that he is a great fighter, I think I say overrated because I think he was protected by judges/ at times don king and most of all I think he is the most classless fighter I have ever seen fight. I probably can't get past the classless part...Steele in my mind should have let Meldrick finish, he was on his feet, Sweet Pea easily defeated him and I don't even want to talk about the Frankie Randall bull****. Past his prime in the last two (sweet pea/Randall) but for god sake show some ****in class!

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tommy morrison was over rated. micheal grant was hyped up. pac man is overrated he needs one more big victory to have me sold

Morrison is a little underrated IMO. Destroyed Razor Ruddock, beat Foreman for a title, was kicking the living **** out of Ray Mercer until he ran out of gas. If the guy didn't stay up until 4 in the monring before his fights(getting drunk and hitin ass), then he would have really been something. Pinklon Thomas and Razor Ruddock say that he punched harder than Tyson. If he only had a serious work ethic the guy would have been a beast.

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Good point!

Ruiz I think is one of worst boxers of all time...

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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.

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what i think about your list.......well we are all entitled to opinions. i respect yours but i do not agree with all of them. rocky was in some knockdown drag outs that most of todays 10 would have either quit or got ktfo. the guy had a chin, heart and stamina.

lewis i can agree with. totally over rated. but its not his fault. he could have proved himself if he were in a different era imo.

and finally oscar de la hoya.....i can't stand dlh but he is not over rated. he deserves every bit of his props. he faught all of the best in his time. and they were no clowns. sure he has won some controversial fights but he has lost a few too. he has had the luxury of picking his fights in the mid to later part of his career and he faught the best. there were some he couldn't handle but he faught them non the less.

now for my pics.....

manny the destroyer. he has had some impressive wins but is not at the level of greatness everyone makes him out to be. he has the potential to be and prolly will but until he actually proves that he can be a skilled boxer instead of a bottomless pit of energy and power he is over rated as a boxer.

roy jones. i have no clue why for so long people were afraid of this guy. i always said that if you kept pressure on this guy and not let him dance around and take pot shots that you could knock him out. his resume is unimpressive to me. i have said it on here before and have caght some slack about it. some have even given evidence of why he actually faught great fighters, but i don't buy into all that.

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I have two picks. 1) Hamed, he was the worst. 2)...I'm gonna catch a whole lotta **** for this one but....Ali. Let me explain, Ali was very good. Ali was a master at self-promotion, if he wasn't a fighter he would have a marketing guru. If you tell people you are the best for a long enough time, they will start to believe you. Some people judge him by his competition, but how good was his competition? By what standards were they judged? Because they gave Ali a good fight? Because they hit Ali..a lot? Is that a testament to they're skill or to normallity of Ali? Being tough is indeed a benificial quality in boxing, but to stand on the ropes and eat clean shots like he did against Foreman is not a sign of greatness, now if he blocked them...maybe, but he ate a buffets worth of clean punches. Don't beat me up too bad for this, as it is just my opinion.

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I have two picks. 1) Hamed, he was the worst. 2)...I'm gonna catch a whole lotta **** for this one but....Ali. Let me explain, Ali was very good. Ali was a master at self-promotion, if he wasn't a fighter he would have a marketing guru. If you tell people you are the best for a long enough time, they will start to believe you. Some people judge him by his competition, but how good was his competition? By what standards were they judged? Because they gave Ali a good fight? Because they hit Ali..a lot? Is that a testament to they're skill or to normallity of Ali? Being tough is indeed a benificial quality in boxing, but to stand on the ropes and eat clean shots like he did against Foreman is not a sign of greatness, now if he blocked them...maybe, but he ate a buffets worth of clean punches. Don't beat me up too bad for this, as it is just my opinion.

Personally, to question Ali's talent and competition is outrageous. People don't consider him the best simply because he kept saying he was. If John Ruiz had Ali's charisma and touted himself as the greatest, he'd still be an average fighter. Ali claimed he was the greatest, but he sure as hell back those words up by beating the best opposition any heavyweight as faced.

They aren't only great by my standards, but pretty much everyone else. Almost everyone has Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Sonny Liston in theit top 10 heavyweights of all-time. At the time, Liston appeared to be unbeatable destroying people left and right. The same goes for George Foreman. People predicted them to be heavyweight champ for multiple years, since no one seemed to be able to compete with them. Then comes Ali, who does the impossible: he beats them. What makes his victories over Foreman and Frazier more impressive was the fact that he wasn't even in his prime. He was still able to overcome these dominating fighters with deteriorated ability.

Yes, Ali and was hittable against Foreman, but that was by choice; tt was his strategy. He wanted to tire Foreman out. Ali proved time and time again that he was tough, but toughness wasn't his only noteworthy attribute. To judge his skill and ability by just his fight against Foreman alone is unjust. In his prime, Ali was nearly unhittable. His defense, reflexes, and speed were uncanny for a heavyweight.

Don't get me wrong, i think Ali can be overrated in certain circumstances, such as when people rank him as one of the top 3 greatest fighters of all-time (personally i have him at 5 i believe). However, to question the man's skill and competition and merely label him as "very good" is underrating him.

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