Biggest Hype Job

[El Kabong]

Who was the biggest hype job in boxing/mma/k-1 etc

Kimbo, Bob Sapp, Audley Harrison, Gerry Cooney, or someone else?

[Kel]

Probably Oscar VS Floyd

[El Kabong]

Well I was thinking about single fighters who were hyped up and ended up looking pathetic....like Michael Grant for example.

[Kel]

Well I was thinking about single fighters who were hyped up and ended up looking pathetic....like Michael Grant for example.

My mistake Bud.


Amir Khan

[CGM]

If you mean undeserved hype, I'd probably go with Cooney.

There are probably a lot of fighters that are hyped to the max in their own country, but not elsewhere. That's where a guy like Audley comes in.

[leftylee]

Kelly Pavlik is one. Even though he made it to a world champion. He is pretty one dimensional and overhyped and got took to school by a 43 yr old who he was expected to KO with ease.

People were so far ahead of talking about him for the future, reigning the division for years etc... they forgot about what was standing in front, Bernard Hopkins.

[El Kabong]

I wouldn't call Pavlik a hype job...I'm talking about fighters who were basically handed wins and whenever they fought anyone anywhere near good kind of like Primo Carnera

[CGM]

Kelly Pavlik is one. Even though he made it to a world champion. He is pretty one dimensional and overhyped and got took to school by a 43 yr old who he was expected to KO with ease.

People were so far ahead of talking about him for the future, reigning the division for years etc... they forgot about what was standing in front, Bernard Hopkins.

Tough call on this one. I see your point, he doesn't exactly impress the hell out of me either, but he did beat some pretty good fighters. edit: basically what Lyle said

[Spicoli]

Gamboa .....I can not deny Oscars accomplishments but from day one as a professional I labeled him DeLaHypa.It really was NON STOP.

David Reid

[Pavlik]

Kelly Pavlik is one. Even though he made it to a world champion. He is pretty one dimensional and overhyped and got took to school by a 43 yr old who he was expected to KO with ease.

People were so far ahead of talking about him for the future, reigning the division for years etc... they forgot about what was standing in front, Bernard Hopkins.

Oh hell no!!! Styles makes fights this is a classic example when a world class puncher gets schooled by a world class boxer. Don't yall forget Kelly destroyed Miranda and Taylor!!!

[Britkid]

Mark Breland was meant to be a combination of all that was good about Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Breland was hardly a bust, but came no where near reaching the hype thrown at him.

Audley annoys me, he was just in it for the money, and from that point of view, he succeed, when the Beeb gave him a £1Million for his first ten fights.

If Audley put half the effort into fighting as he did hyping and self publicing himself, he would of beaten the Klitshcko brothers in the same night.

[ElTerribleMorales]

Kelly Pavlik is one. Even though he made it to a world champion. He is pretty one dimensional and overhyped and got took to school by a 43 yr old who he was expected to KO with ease.

People were so far ahead of talking about him for the future, reigning the division for years etc... they forgot about what was standing in front, Bernard Hopkins.

can't say Pavlik is all hype when he is STILL the reigning Middleweight champion of the world, and has wins over Taylor, Miranda, Zuniga, Zertuche, and Rubio, all either decent or very good competition, he's not unstoppable but IMO still the best in his respectable division, all i know though is that Pavlik Vs Abraham has to happen, also since when is it a shame to lose to Bernard Hopkins? IMO B-Hop should have been the first loss on Calzaghe's record

[RozzySean]

If you mean undeserved hype, I'd probably go with Cooney.

There are probably a lot of fighters that are hyped to the max in their own country, but not elsewhere. That's where a guy like Audley comes in.

Cooney was overhyped to some degree, but he was also rushed. Cooney was a pretty good fighter who was put in too soon with an underrated ATG champion. He had wins over Lyle, Jimmy Young, and Norton. These were decent wins but they were all past there primes and it gave Cooney's promotors and the public something to build on. He also made a good effort in the Holmes fight and managed to give a pretty good accounting of himself for a while. He showed a very good chin and took an immense amount of punishment before being stopped. Unfortunately, he is one of the examples of a fighter who is never the same after taking a beating.

Audley was a far bigger hype job. He was made out the be the next great champion having accomplished even less than Cooney did. If Cooney had fought Harrison, Harrison would still be on his back.

Joel Julio was another totally overrated hypejob. Michael Grant was a great example and probably Tommy Morrison, too. Morrison was a decent fighter, but he was another great white hope who built a record on fading talent and got sparked when he stepped up. Every win he had against a quality opponent was against an aging fighter. His best win was probably the Foreman win.

[Beanflicker]

MMA I would have to go with Kimbo. They (elite xc) based their entire company around this fellow. He gets KO'd in 14 seconds by a guy a weightclass below his, and the company folds

As useless as Bob Sapp was, he does have 2 wins over K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost and a legendary MMA loss against PRIME Nogueira, so even though he was marketed and promoted to high heaven, he did have some good performances along the way.

Gerry Cooney suffers from that "white hope" double sword. When he was winning they overrated him, and when he loses they underrate him. Gerry was a REALLY good fighter IMO, dynamite left, good jab. One of the most brutal KOs of all time against legend Ken Norton. Look at the 3 guys he lost to. Holmes and Foreman, who IMO are both top 5 HWs of all time, and Michael Spinks, one of if not the greatest LHW of all time, and a guy who moved up to HW and handed Holmes his first 2 defeats. Yeah he looked bad but it was against STELLAR compedition.

[Beanflicker]

Can't believe people are saying Cooney. There are at least 1000 boxers who were hyped more undeservably than he was.