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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Who’s Currently the Most Overrated Boxer?


Critics and haters around the world often look at Joe Calzaghe’s record and instead of looking at the highlights in his career they always look at the fights that he missed.

As a fan I often support Joe against his critics and believe he was a great champion and a future hall of famer. I admit pulling out of fights against Glen Johnson and giving boxers like Peter Manfredo Jr title shots can easily be criticised but he still beat some big names including, Chris Eubank, Mikkel Kessler and Jeff Lacy and he also retired undefeated.

You compare this to the American boxer Kelly Pavlik who fights in a similar weight class Joe Calzaghe doesn’t look all that overrated. When Calzaghe chose to fight Roy Jones Jr there was a big list of boxers coming out of the woodwork who could beat Joe and who Joe was apparently “running away from”.

Kelly Pavlik was one of these boxers Joe never fought and at the time Kelly Pavlik had an unbeaten record and many said he was unbeatable. With his record Pavlik was similar to Joe in the fact that he was unbeaten and had beaten 2 top class fighters in Edison Miranda and Jermain Taylor. The real difference came when Pavlik stepped up and faced the aging Bernard Hopkins who had lost 3 of his last 5 fights including his latest loss to Joe Calzaghe. As soon as the bout was over and Hopkins had dominated Pavlik who looked awful, Calzaghe was quick to say “I said all along Kelly Pavlik was overrated, overhyped and hadn’t done anything in his career to warrant a fight with me. This was evident Saturday night when Hopkins destroyed and exposed him for what he is.”

Now you quickly need to realise that Hopkins is a true great and still shows greatness in his performances but what I’m suggesting is perhaps Pavlik is overrated. I think the true test will be if the Paul Williams-Kelly Pavlik fight happens.

The next man I am going to mention is going to be very controversial as he is currently listed as the Pound for Pound King. You guessed it I am going to bring Manny Pacquiao into this debate. Most recently Pacquiao has hit the top spot in the P4P rankings after two unexpected stoppages against Ricky Hatton and Oscar De La Hoya. I think perhaps the Ricky Hatton fight should be seen as a good victory for Pacquiao as he was impressive, showing great speed and power. However, many believe Hatton was a shot fighter who was lucky to beat Juan Lazcano a year before the Pacquiao fight and seemed to learn nothing from the Mayweather fight chasing Pacquiao around the ring. The De La Hoya fight in my opinion was a no contest because it wasn’t the real De La Hoya there. The De La Hoya that turned up was a drained fighter just so he could make the weight. At the starting bell De La Hoya didn’t even look a well man never mind a man ready for a boxing match. Even Roach said he saw IV marks on De La Hoya’s arm, pointing out that he needed to be rehydrated surgically as a last result. Another name that appears when Pacquiao gets criticized for being overrated is the respected Mexican counter puncher, Juan Manuel Marquez. The first match between Marquez and Pacquiao could have gone either way but the second match was a horrendous decision. Marquez should have been given the victory in the fight as he seemed to win most of the rounds after the knockdowns in the 1st.

Like Pavlik, Pacquiao can once and for all prove himself as he is going to fight a tough opponent in Miguel Cotto and then possibly face Floyd Mayweather or for a 3rd time Juan Manuel Marquez.

Other possible overrated fighters that should be included are:

* Amir Khan – Been hurt by poor opponents and KO’d in under a minute against Breidis Prescott, he is clearly very talented but has a Glass Jaw.

* Edwin Valero – He is calling out big names because of his perfect 25 win record all by KO but he is yet to fight a good opponent and backed out of a fight against Breidis Prescott.

* Nicolai Valuev – He is only the champ because of his height and weight. He is slow and not overly powerful and he lost to Ruslan Chagaev who in turn got dominated by Wladimir Klitschko.

If you can think of some more overrated boxers I’d like to see some comments and reasons for picking them.

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