Overrated heavyweights?

Question

Who comes to mind?

The first person I thought of was Sam Peter. All I hear about is how great this guy is, and when I watch him I just see and out-of-shape guy whose signature move is to deliver cheap shots to the back of his opponent's heads. He's got some power but no defense. They've had a picture of him celebrating after a tko of old Oleg (who's like 40 and slower than a turtle) up on Yahoo sports for a week now. It's just because the heavyweight division is so weak that he's even one of the champs - Lewis, Holyfield, Foreman, even Vitali... any one of those guys on a good day would've made hash out of Peter.

Answer 1

did you mentioned foreman? are you kidding me? you compare big george to this non-sense ape, man this a heresy and a record-fallacy. even the sissy shannon briggs and pinklon thomas can beat the c**p outa that fat bub. what im pointing to is that, george is not a man worthy of being mentioned in this post, sorry.

Answer 2

Mike Tyson for sure, he was entertaining  but never really beat anyone important

Answer 3

I don't think that peter is overrated. great promotion and marketing are part of the sport regardless of actual skill. No one is saying that peter is a excellent boxer, just a hard hitter.  Any fan that thinks that peter is skilled fighter they don't know boxing

Answer 4

Butterbean.

Answer 5

Well all of the modern heavyweights are probably correctly rated now. In that they are absolute c**p, and people are paying them what they are worth-c**p.

As to the list foreman is the only decent fighter in it. The 1990's guys were conquered by him directly or indirectly, by letting him get the title as a 44 year old fat man in 1994.

In other words any fighter after 1990 , has to assume he would be lucky to hold a 1970's heavyweights towel in a training session for him, let alone face him in the ring.

Answer 6

Overrated heavyweights:

Alexander Povetkin

Joe Mesi

David Tua

NIcolai Valuev