Is Sugar Ray Robinson overrated?

[Ascended]

did ray move as good as conteh/benitez who gave leonard trouble who was a flashy type like floyd not exact style but flashy still but not as advanced or did he have the advances as lopez/ Buchanan

these are all 1970s-80s fighter and were all more advanced then ray and people became even more advanced in 90s doing stuff they didn't do in 80s so this is a like 50s years of advanced movement ray's era looked ameriurish

[hugh grant]

He can be beat h2h, but it takes more than that. Boxing historians and fans want fighters to put it on the line as many times as he did and win as many as he did. Like winning 70 fights in a row is wow isnt it, even if they are bums. You can fight 70 bums but most would likely have an off night and lose.

[SplitSecond]

Incredibly. Most of the clowns on here have not watched much of him and talk complete and utter bollocks.

[Smash]

this question may be almost as futile as asking crawford about his hedge funds

[Cash in]

It's hard to take the ridiculous record padding from most of the olden day fighters seriously. Truth be told, his resume was nothing special, and he lost a lot of fights. He even drew with someone who was like W20 L20 or something very similar, when he was approx 28. Hardly a master boxer if you are losing round after round in his prime vs a punchbag. No way would he beat the likes of Amir "King" Khan, or Robert "the Ghost" Guerrero. Cash in

[Smash]

he may well be over rated by the people who rate him & under rated by the people who dont rate him or he may be rated just about right by most people

[Ascended]

He can be beat h2h, but it takes more than that. Boxing historians and fans want fighters to put it on the line as many times as he did and win as many as he did. Like winning 70 fights in a row is wow isnt it, even if they are bums. You can fight 70 bums but most would likely have an off night and lose.

Well I ask the question is why did he win that many in a row answer that for me

[Ascended]

he may well be over rated by the people who rate him & under rated by the people who dont rate him or he may be rated just about right by most people

No he is overrated bad said he could beat the likes of people in 70s-90s who he never had to face on the skill level of those guys or himself was as advanced as those era's the man looks really amateurish compared

[Ascended]

It's hard to take the ridiculous record padding from most of the olden day fighters seriously. Truth be told, his resume was nothing special, and he lost a lot of fights. He even drew with someone who was like W20 L20 or something very similar, when he was approx 28. Hardly a master boxer if you are losing round after round in his prime vs a punchbag. No way would he beat the likes of Amir "King" Khan, or Robert "the Ghost" Guerrero. Cash in

he wouldnt even beat the people in the amateur who khan rob and others fought since they were more more advanced then ray ever was

Ray looks really horrible when we compare him to 70s fighters let alone 90s

[Cypocryphy]

Sugar Ray Robinson is everything that they say he is. You should watch a biography on him or watch his fights. But you have to compare him to the fighters of his time. When a fighter is very good, as was Sugar, people start imitating him. People also start developing ways to negate what he did well. So would he do as well now as he had back then? I don't think so. I think he'd have a harder time in a different decade, only because combat sports is always in a constant state of evolution.