Top 10 most overated champions of ALL TIME?

Question

Top 10 most overated champions of ALL TIME?

Answer 1

rocky and joe calzaghe

Answer 2

If I said MIKE TYSON emphatically 10 times would that count?

Oh wait ! Probably not. I never considered a guy who spent 2 years of a 3 year title reign ducking the number one contender EVANDER HOLYFIELD to be a real enough champion in the first place to even be overrated!

It was a so called PRIME that NEVER WAS!

Then when he got out of prison and had the belt virtually HANDED to him by DON KING he disgracefully ducked LENNOX LEWIS!

On that ocassion he was actually stripped of the WBC belt!

In BOTH cases we all now know WHY he was frightened of EACH FIGHTER!

Tyson was not only the most overrated boxer of all time but probably the most overrated professional ATHLETE of the 20th CENTURY!

Answer 3

jack dempsey: I am going to get a lot of thumbs down for this but let us look at the facts, he basically dodged all the good fighters of his day by using the colorline (wills,langford etc) his biggest wins are against ,Willard a cowboy turned boxer who would probably not make it past the amateurs today (in today's world he would have more luck in basketball than boxing anyway), Louis Firpo an over rated argentine boxer with good power but sub par boxing skills (who actually managed to drop dempsey), carpentier a respectable boxer but not a boxing great , dempsey achieved greatness through his manager Tex ryckard (or whatever his name was) but he did not face any truly strong opposition, he just happened to come at the right time, a lot of white boxing fans were still recovering from jack johnson and they needed a new white champion to look up to and dempsey was that champion, he was the first big draw and he helped raise the popularity of boxing to new heights but he was definetely no top ten fighter like some people tend to rate him here.

Gerry Cooney: they called this guy the new rocky marciano and hailed him as a great white hope but after the fight with holmes the truth became apparent.

Jess Willard: don't get me started on this guy.

Primo carnera: this guy was sh*t, in today's boxing world he would not even be a contender.

Sugar shane mosely: he was fast....but that's about all he had.

Joe calzaghe : this guy is considered the best light heavyweight in the world despite the fact that he hasn t even a faced a prime light heavyweight opponent, he basically slaps his way to victory and his level of competition is not that great.

Arturo gatti: He fought journey men and b level opposition then lost to an average fighter like Gomez and got taken to school by an A+ fighter like mayweather.

Answer 4

Rocky Marciano, Michael Spinks, Oscar De la Hoya, Floyd Mayweather

Answer 5

Just wanted to add one name that recently was very over rated........not sure about an all timer, but he sure as heck should be on a list of recent overrated champs........Baldomir..........

Answer 6

Mike Tyson was and still is way overrated. He never fought anyone of substance, and when he finally fought Holyfield he got picked apart.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Rocky Marcaino

Answer 9

Arturo Gatti: Yes he was known for his "wars"..but his wars were always with journeymen fighters. In his career he only really fought TWO fighters...Oscar DeLaHoya and Floyd Mayweather...in both of those fights he got creamed.

Marvin Starling: Hated him, hated his "Starling Stomp"..hated he never fought anyone of consequence.

Naseem Hamed: THIS guy was the biggest disappointment since the crucifixion. A clown who fought NOBODIES and hammed it up for the crowd...then when he finally fights an ACTUAL fighter...gets slammed from ringpost to ringpost...then disappears.

William Joppy: Yes, I went to school with this guy and he really is an affable person. But talk about handled? THIS guy was treated with kid gloves. The Trinidad debacle happened because he slept thru his career.

"Baby" Joe Mesi : NO ONE defines "protected fighter" like this man does. People still fill entire arenas to watch him...and as of yet I dont remember him fighting ANYONE of consequence.

Keith Holmes: Lord how did this man EVER get a belt???

Antonio Tarver: All mouth, little product. Yes he had the common sense to call out Roy Jones and make him drop twenty pounds to get back in the ring with him....and?

Fernando Vargas: This is truly the saddest story in boxing. Shoved up to a class he didnt belong in prematurely due to bad handling...and dissuaded from using his actual boxing skills because "mexican fighters are supposed to fight, not box"...he folded to almost every top tier fighter he ever fought.

Shane Mosely: I just have a principle...if you are going to take the nickname "Sugar"...you better be ready to live up to it.

Answer 10

1. muhummad ali 2. sugar ray leonard 3. pernell whitaker 4. floyd mayweather 5. oscar de la hoya 6. felix trinidad 7. fernando vargas 8. donald curry 9. wilfredo gomez 10. hector camacho

Answer 11

Floyd Mayweather JR. If he fights Cotto and beats him then he's legit...

Answer 12

Jack Johnson, Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather jr.