In your opinion most underrated fighter

I another thread I commented how I think Tito has become "underrated" basically due to Bernard schooling him.

Here are some I think have become vastly underrated


-Tito... As I said above... Credit to Bernard...but Tito was a BEAST and was a good boxer earlier then started to be more of a pure puncher and less of a boxer to this day I think he is the only one that really beat Pernell


-Tyson...Lemon knocks him out and Holy whips him... All the sudden he is just a bum who beat up bums and old guys...
Forgotten is that he was a KID DESTROYING good fighters
Tyson when he was coming up was a phenom

-Ray Leonard ... For me personally it's between him and ali for my favorite fighter ever...
I was talking to a friend of mine of is big into the boxing scene in dc..we were saying if you came up with a movie about a fighter and never was a SRL..but this movie was about a fighter doing what he did...it would almost be unbelievable.. A much as I'm a HUGE fan of Floyd and I think he is one of the all time great boxers... I personally still think SRL was on yet another level

-Duran.. People here act like he was some hugging bum... The dude was a BEAST

 

Vernon Forrest is pretty underrrated.

 

Agreed

Shane got shit for losing to him in the pros...but lots don't know Shane also lost to him leading up to Olympics

 

Joe Brown... underrated because he was crazily inconsistent before he was champion and after his reign ended... during it, he was fucking brilliant

Harold Johnson ... absolute ace technician, one of the most technically skilled fighters ever

No one seems to acknowledge the existence of Vicente Saldivar, for some reason

Pone Kingpetch- had his flaws, but he was three times the Flyweight champion of the world... another guy who is never mentioned... this might be the first time anyone has typed "Pone Kingpetch" on fightbeat ... doesn't help he was a "midget" and tougher still, a midget from the 60s

Gilberto Roman - another midget, he was a nifty little boxer in his day

 

marcellus johnson

 

duran gets regularly called top 5 p4p of all time, so his rating seems pretty positive.

 

Cdogg knows the game and his bill are paid.

 

He's pretty underground too.

 

Cdogg is one of my favorite

 

on here they are... people say Tyson was a bum and Duran was a hugger

 

Right now - Alvarez.

 

you think?

he looked very good.. i think he is evenly rated.. at times even slightly overrated but he is young and devolping

 

Ive hardly heard anyone on this board with a good word to say about him. X has said he's decent. Allot of people are saying he's basically a bum. I think he's at least on the Vargas/Cotto level. He does things very deliberately and intelligently. His timing, range, punch selection and composure are all extremely impressive to me and it's pretty rare I'm impressed by new fighters. We'll see when he fights some better fighters.

 

i dont think after the spinks fight there was anything left to prove and or fight for. once that happens youre fucked.

 

I agree

but i don't think he is a "MURDEROUS" puncher like some say

he is a very good young fighter who might turn out to be great...

 

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Nah, he's not a huge puncher.

 

:bears:

 

On THIS forum........ Tito is by far the most underrated.

You'd think he was Ben Tackie the way most posters discuss him on here.

 

Tito went from being overrated back during the secondsout days to being underrated now.

Vernon Forrest is pretty underrated as well.

 

I dont think Tito's underrated here at all

 

If you made a Carlos Quintana vs Tito MM on here, Quintana would be favored.

 

Nah. If you made an all time list of C & B class beaters Tito would be top 20.

He's like these next-gen electric cars, he can accelerate up to 60mph as fast as anyone then the motor just kinda gets stuck there

 

Yep, as I said, he'll blow C and B class fighters out of the water, but the true test is against proper elite fighters, and it's there that you see just how limited and overrated Tito is.

 

There's allot to be said for Tito's consistency though. He'd probably never have a Hasim Rahman/Buster Douglas or even a Junior Jones/Vince Phillips moment in a million years.

 

Tito is the greatest B grade fighter of all time. That's what he is. The All time king of B.

 

Tito was an A- level fighter.

At A+, you have guys like Leonard, Floyd, Whitaker, Roy, Chavez, ect.

 

:bears::bears::giggle:

 

An incredibly consistent B+ I'd say.