Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Quote Originally Posted by RozzySean
Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Duddy is nothing special, but is hugely hyped.
He's not hugely hyped, just hugely popular. He energizes the Irish ex-pats and Irish-Americans over here. I've never met a single person who rates him any higher than he really is, but he's fun to watch and well promoted.
I realise that..
I'm Irish after all
But he's not only popular he's hyped also. If you view Duddy without the volume on your television you'll see he's nothing exceptional. A nice rounded fighter sure, but as of yet he's got nothging special in the arsenal.
You say that, but who exactly hypes him? Maybe he gets hype in the UK that I don't know about. To me, overhyped is when fans and media think a guy is better than he is. Well promoted is when a fighter's people do a good job of selling him. I think Duddy falls in to catagory #2. Your promoter is suposed to hype you up, and it's not overhype unless fans and the press by into a promoter's crap instead of using there own judgement. I'll stand corrected if you tell me that the British boxing press and fans are hyping him up to be a future champ, but I'm not seeing that over here. I guess some of the announcers of his locally televised bouts do that, but they overhype any local fighter.

I don't think real boxing fans or the boxing press give him any more credit than he is due. The only thing special in his arsenal is a good chin, a handsome face, a decent punch, and a fan friendly style., Still, with nothing being exceptional, I rate him as maybe the 15th best MW in the world, give or take a few spots.

The real future Irish MW is Andy Lee, but I think we all know that around here.