Most Overrated Fights

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I do have to say that what intrigues me about this fight (as well as Hagler-Hearns) is that Dempsey pretty much threw out all of his boxing skill (which he did possess) to fight his opponent's fight and make it an exciting battle worthy of the hype. He gets tagged early and basically fought the rest of it in blind rage of which he said he didn't remember a thing after the fight.

I thought Hagler in the Hearns fight is one of the best displays of a fighter changing from his usual style to another one to perfection. I mean he fought in a totally different manner than usual, against someone as great as Tommy Hearns, and kicked his ass.

[Dan...]

LOL @ Ali-Frazier III being overrated. Good ***n god.

[Mr. Fantastic]

Most of Bernard's big fights.
Cotto vs Gomez
DLH/Mayweather vs Gatti
Mayweather vs DLH
Mayweather vs Baldomir
Tito vs Joppy
Paul Williams vs Winky
Pac vs Morales 2 & 3
Pac vs Barrera 1 & 2
Marquez vs Barrera
Jones vs Ruiz


There is a ton more.

[TheGreatA]

I thought Hagler in the Hearns fight is one of the best displays of a fighter changing from his usual style to another one to perfection. I mean he fought in a totally different manner than usual, against someone as great as Tommy Hearns, and kicked his ass.

I agree.

I mostly meant Hearns, since he would have obviously done better by sticking to boxing (although with Hagler's pressure it would have been very difficult), but chose to slug it out partly due to the fight being as hyped as it was ("The War" as Hagler called it). I think it was a bit of mindgame played by Hagler on Hearns as well, since he knew that Hearns would not back down from a fight and how difficult it was to deal with him when he was in boxer "mode".

Hagler himself was tagged with a good punch early on which made him even more aggressive. He had looked inept trying to put the pressure on against Duran and again when he fought Leonard. I guess you would sometimes have to hurt him to wake him up a little.

[dans]

Why would you watch an extremely overrated fight 4-5 times then?

Verification.

No honestly I bought the dvd and would watch it with friends sometimes. Then I realized it wasn't that great.

[IMDAZED]

Most recently, COtto-Judah. The atmosphere was electric. The fight? Not so much.

[keepthemhandsup]

thrilla in manilla was overated

[Kimbo Slice]

oscar de la hoya vs trinidad...

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oscar de la hoya vs trinidad...

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Who says that fight was good?

Something usually has got to be rated fairly high or decent in the first place to be overrated.

[princemanspoper]

I'm surprised at people picking the Thrilla in Manila as an overrated fight. Rumble in the Jungle would be overrated if anything, a sloppy bout without a whole lot of punches landed, but I felt the Thrilla is well deserving of the hype and was truly a brutal, brutal contest in which two men gave their all.

Imagine this kind of action in a modern heavyweight bout, it would be talked about for years

The only piece of brutal action was in the final rounds where ali was teeing off as Fraziers head.Martin Rogan has had two bouts that have been as exciting if not more than the thrilla in manila in the past five months alone.

I wouldn't rate this in my top ten heavyweight title bouts,That's for sure