I'm not really sold on the Porter hype

[IronDanHamza]

Hatton blasted him out, albeit it took longer, but that was a fresher Paulie.

Paulie is very overrated and has nothing to hold his opponents back with.

Thurman would have sparked out Paulie much worse than Porter did.



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~Booty Dew~

Hatton didn't "Blast out" anyone.

Pauli didn't need to be pulled out and was pretty annoyed about the fact he was pulled out.

Hatton dominated Pauli but he didn't drop him at any point, I don't think he even hurt him at any point atleast not badly. Can't entirely remember.

[Accountoffline]

Porter is a sound guy. I have respect for this type of fighter. Doesn't talk shtt and gets on with it. Watch and see a future WW bad boy. His power is underrated and underestimated.

[IronDanHamza]

As for Porter, he's not a future great or anything, or atleast I doubt.

But he's definitely a good fighter, fast, athletic, can punch, close the gap well, versatile.

Need to see how his chin is. Diaz buzzed him in their fight.

He'd be a handful for today's Mayweather IMO.

Like Russian said, he's already exceeded the expectations on him.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Straight from Malignaggi's mouth, he said "Brook punches harder than me and Alexander combined". No way of knowing that, of course Brook is gonna get destroyed but still, Porter hasn't faced an opponent good enough to time him on the way in, one who can punch. If Porter can show me that then he's the real deal.

[IronDanHamza]

Straight from Malignaggi's mouth, he said "Brook punches harder than me and Alexander combined". No way of knowing that, of course Brook is gonna get destroyed but still, Porter hasn't faced an opponent good enough to time him on the way in, one who can punch. If Porter can show me that then he's the real deal.

Brook does have some power but I don't think he's a monstrous puncher.

Hard to tell with his competition level but I don't see an overly hard puncher from what I gather. Time will tell.

Brook should land at some point so will be interesting to see how he takes it.

We had this dicussion before but that's a question mark for Porter, his chin. Looking forward to seeing it tested.

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

he needs work, very wide and sloppy at times but the dude is a beast nobody is really overhyping him its just that some boxing fans get happy to see new talent up and coming

[Skip Bayless]

i dont want to see porter and thurman fight each other yet because when they do one of them is never going to be the same ever again. 1 of them is going to get an ass kicking that they wont be able to recover from. clean out the division first then these 2 can fight

[Jack Napier]

Porter is only recently starting to beat ranked fighters, haven't seen anybody hyping him here

[rws25]

Earlier poster said it best... If Porter has a chin, he can easily be #1. He has more talent than AB and Thurman combined. Porter out hustled Alexander, and Alexander was once dubbed by Floyd as one of the best boxers out there.

In regards to Thurman, I'd love to see him vs. someone with true power. He still hasn't been tested in my mind.