Name the Hype job that had u fooled?

[vacon04]

I wasn't extremely impressed by Proska, but I think he could've been a lot better than he is right now. It's a shame that his corner is absolute garbage and that his progress has stalled for the past few years.

[danceswithfire]

abraham and bum bum bautista

[AddiX]

Jorge Linares, I thought he was going to be the best. Little did I know about that chin of his.

[Hitman932]

Nothing impresses me about Wilder, I see no technical skills whatsoever, all I see is a puncher who goes wild, I hope when he gets exposed those hyping him come back to this thread.

I honestly don't think anyone really believes Wilder is that good. They just really want to see a new HW champ so bad they are willing to let themselves be blinded by his tattoos and his power.

[ßringer]

Plus he beat Wright back when Wright still had something about him.

No, he didn't. The fight was ruled a draw, and IIRC, most (myself included) thought that Wright won.

Taylor did really good, if you were to make a list of the best MWs in the 21st century, he'd feature on it

You mean that if we were to compile a list of the best middleweight since January 1st, 2001 he'd feature on it? Wow. That's a truly amazing accomplishment.



The real question here is why you deliberately limited the window of time to include just the past 12 and a half years or so.

[Hitman932]

Jorge Linares, I thought he was going to be the best. Little did I know about that chin of his.

... and his paper mache skin

[AddiX]

Paul Spadafora , yep NSB's favorite son. The guy who "schooled" Floyd in sparring was supposed to go on to do great things. All he ever did was get arrested

Spaddy had a pretty good career before his arrest, dude was a technical genius, his boxing was straight out a text book.

[Black Barty]

1) Amir Khan. When he beat Maidana (the only highly ranked puncher in his division at the time), I thought he was going to unify jr. welterweight and have a long title reign. The Peterson and Garcia losses were shockers for me. I haven't given up on him yet, but thing aren't looking very good for him now.

2) Kevin Mitchell. He impressed me in the Prescott fight, showing surprising versatility. I thought he was at least world title level, but he came up way short in his two title challenges. Kind of weird, considering how good he looked just one level below that.

3) James DeGale. Was a very promising prospect, but hasn't progressed much over the years. Basically an amateur still relying on his physical gifts.

[Hitman932]

He showed *****s in the armor against Woods and Johnson but still impressed me with his raw aggression and ability to overwhelm his more skilled opponents with volume.

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I guess I need to take this expression out of my vernacular since boxingscene thinks there are Asians in the armor.

[nathan_nall]

jermain wasnt a hype job at all. he is a textbook example of what happens when a fighter who came from nothing have too much success too soon and lose their drive and motivation.

taylor was really good when he fought hopkins and could have went on to become great. he was a hungry fighter who worked his ass off year round and having seen most of his early fights (unlike most ppl here) i know how much he he was improving each time out.

but then he won the title, got three big paydays in a row and got lazy. he stopped training between fights to improve his skills and boxing intelligence and just sat around getting fat. when a fight came close he would get in camp too late first of all, and then proceeded to spend the entire time just losing weight in preparation for the scale with hardly no preparation for the actual fight.

his skills declined and he started creating bad habits. showing up in poor shape made him lose much of his speed and strength and all of his stamina. as a result he fought in a different style attempting to just steal rounds while preserving energy as opposed to the "bad intentions" of old who got in there and went to work with just that.. bad intentions.

whenever ppl ask hopkins or marquez when they will retire they always say the same thing, "when they dont have the drive to pay the prize to be on top". jermain lost that but kept fighting. he lost his way but he was the real deal or at least could have been, he just didnt want it bad enough. by the time he realized his mistake his body had taken too much abuse inside and outside the ring for him to get back on track.

Well, in a very loving manner... Ozel said that even as a young kid JT was just an anxious kid and his biggest flaw was dedication to training camp. That was back before even Pat Burns showed up on the scene. Johnny DuPree used to tell stories of having to threated to tell JT's mom about his laziness (which meant a whoopin'). Burns came along as JT prepared for for the Olympics and found a way to put some much needed discipline into JT. When Pat left, so did a lot of the discipline. I can honestly say I appreciate the person Taylor is more than I appreciate the fighter he was/is, but HBO was grooming him to be their next star and built up an unfair hype around him... hence, why he makes the list.