Most Overrated Fights

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Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson I: Great event, pretty good fight with some quality exchanges and a lot of clinching. The Ring called this the 1996 fight of the year. It wasn't even a top 5 fight of 1996 nor was it the best heavyweight fight in the last two months of 1996.

Oscar De La Hoya-Ike Quartey: I've heard people (like Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant) describe this as a great, tremendous fight. Apparently people only remember 2 rounds and the remaining 10 when both guys spent mostly staring at each other. Posefests are not great. It was suspenseful enough to get you into it when you saw it live, but the action level for most of it ******. I heard people describe this as "epic" and better than DLH's bouts with Vargas and Mosley 1. LOL. Boxing fans and their short memories.

Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward II and III: The first fight was great (although Gatti-Robinson I was better). The 2nd fight was alright, but a shutout. The 3rd fight was good, but not FOTY material, and still too one-sided. Ward won two rounds against Gatti, who had a broken hand. One when Gatti broke his hand and the other Ward took in the last 5 seconds of the round. HBO overhyped this trilogy. Gatti-Ward 3 was the 2nd best fight of the trilogy, and wouldn't make my top 5 Gatti fights or top 5 Ward fights. Toney-Jirov and Gomez-Arthur were more worthy fights for 2003 Fight of the Year.

[BoxingGenius27]

I could see how Holyfield-Tyson made fight of the year. Tyson hadn't lost a fight since before he went to jail. When he lost to Holyfield, that was not only a shocker, but a very exciting one. I don't recall several fights being better in 1996.

DLH and Quartey wasn't overrated either. Both fighters exchanged knockdowns late in the fight; then went toe to toe in the last 2 rounds. Very exciting fight and not overrated.

I'll give you the 2nd and 3rd Gatti-Ward fights. They didn't live up to the first.

[warp1432]

First fight I thought of was De La Hoya-Quartey, funny to see it already mentioned.

I would say SRL and Hearns is a little overrated as well. That fight is really inconsistent in its action until the last couple of rounds.

[THE REED]

First I thought of was Ward Gatti II

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I could see how Holyfield-Tyson made fight of the year. Tyson hadn't lost a fight since before he went to jail. When he lost to Holyfield, that was not only a shocker, but a very exciting one. I don't recall several fights being better in 1996.

Barrera-McKinney, Gatti-Rodriguez, Bowe-Golota 2, Liles-Littles 2, Kelley-Gainer 1 were all better fights. The event of Holyfield-Tyson 1 was great, but was nowhere near as good of a fight as Barrera-McKinney.

DLH and Quartey wasn't overrated either. Both fighters exchanged knockdowns late in the fight; then went toe to toe in the last 2 rounds. Very exciting fight and not overrated.

The knockdowns came in round 6, then DLH dropped and hurt Quartey in the last round. Most of the other 10 rounds were slow as hell. The occasional terrific exchange in between a bunch of posing. It wasn't one of those chess-matches where one guy sets a trap, the other bites, and pays for the mistake.

It was 10 rounds of a whole lot of nothing.

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First fight I thought of was De La Hoya-Quartey, funny to see it already mentioned.

Most of the fight was pretty slow. One great round and an exciting finish hardly makes a great fight.

I would say SRL and Hearns is a little overrated as well. That fight is really inconsistent in its action until the last couple of rounds.

The rematch was actually better for sustained action.

Leonard-Hearns 1 was good but yeah, inconsistent in action. I still liked it though.

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tim bradley vs devon alexander ..."the super fight" more like the "super snooze fest". what a giant debacle that event was.

[HardAss]

All of pacquiaos fights.
Seriously he is a boring fighter.

I watch pac vs mosley anytime i have a mild case of insomnia, that fixes it right up.
Hell even CANELO had a more exiting fight against the old man.

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tim bradley vs devon alexander ..."the super fight" more like the "super snooze fest". what a giant debacle that event was.

I think pretty much everyone agrees that wasn't an exciting fight.

I don't know why HBO put up that much money and expected that fight to be so good. I thought it was predictable that the styles of the two wouldn't mesh to be fan-friendly.

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tim bradley vs devon alexander ..."the super fight" more like the "super snooze fest". what a giant debacle that event was.

I don't think you get the thread. Nobody liked how Bradley-Alexander played out. TS is not talking about which fights were overhyped before they happened. Nobody calls Bradley-Alexander a great fight.