Fighters From Europe Are really overrated

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I'm not saying these fighters are not good, but compared to the hype they get compared to their level of accomplishments and opponents are a little bit unwarranted in my opinion.

For example, Prince Naseem was good just not an elite fighter in my eyes, and same thing with Hatton, but they get trumped up and hyped up a little bit no?

As for Joe Calzaghe, he beat a 43 year old Hopkins and a 39 year old Roy Jones, in my eyes those 2 are way past their primes physically and boxing wise. If this fight had taken place 10 years ago, then yeah it would be something to talk about.

Nobody is talking about it though. Everyone on here knows his win over Jones means hardly anything. His win over Hopkins took on more value when Hopkins schooled Pavlik - Now if you want to talk about hyping a fighter....

With Hatton i think you have confused his fan-base with hype. Nobody believes he is/was the 2nd coming. Pretty much everyone on here knew where he was at.

You're a good and sensible poster, so I apologized to people out there that are offended by this thread I made, and you do have a point with fan base and hype. It's just that some posters on the internet and real life makes some ridiculous statements, like "Hatton will knock out Floyd or Pacman." I just knew that Hatton is a good fighter but in my eyes isn't within the same realm as Floyd or Pacman. Dariusz Michalczewski, a solid fighter but not an elite fighter like RJJ, neither is Calzaghe in my opinion.

And as a new poster I didn't know about the Mighty Mike joke, its just that I read some old posts here and many posters were making even more riduculous statements like, "Floyd duck fighters" or "Pacman fought a drained DeLaHoya at 147 and should have fought him at 154 to make the fight fair." Which in my opinion are idiotic statements themselves. SO it's hard to tell which is joking and which are real statements.

I mean everyone has their own opinion and it's my opinion that Calzaghe has done enough to be considered elite. Ok he didn't fight Jones or Hopkins in their prime but Hopkins shown what he has left when he destroyed Pavlik so it's fair to say he had something left.

Fact is Pac did fight a weight-drained Oscar, he needed a rehydration drip before the fight which suggest he wasn't keeping food down or able to eat food for some reason. He looked like total shit aswell. Still not Pac's fault. He did what he had to do and did it well.

A lot of people on here don't like Floyd. There is an argument for him avoiding certain fighters so people tag on to that. It's not a joke. I don't think he is that guilty, not to the extent where it would make me angry anyway.

Finally the sort of people who think 'Hatton will fucking smash Pac and mayweather' are the same sort of people who think Tyson is the greatest fighter of all time. In other words, they are uneducated and in fairness you aren't likely to come across them on this board. Maybe in the pub or in the comments section of a youtube video. They're most likely just general sports fans and not enthusiastic boxing fans.

Anyway if you stick around you'll most likely be able to tell the jokes from the serious stuff.