Biggest Hype Job

[Violent Demise]

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

You out of your mind. I expected better from you. Reid was an over achiever in the sport of Boxing. Not to many people can become World Champs fighting with basically one eye.

You on the Saddo's top 10 posters pound for pound list. But p4p or not take your neg rep.

HAHA...wut a Dikk.What goes around comes around potna but Im going to rise above this night

Reid skilled no doubt,slick fawka.But He rode that lone olympian hype all over the networks and burned quick.Just never did it for me,Loved his smashing on usually tough Rupa,what he did to Waaaay past it Brown is what I hold against him.You KNOW that was a mirage.It got ugly at the end with him,getting knocked around by so-so types.

Reid had fantastic skills. And a great right hand. But that eye was a liability. He was basically a one eyed fighter. For him to become a champion and beat some good fighters along the way, to me is highly impressive.

A bunch of idiots like to blame Reid's handlers for rushing him in against Felix Trinidad. They think they did a poor job of handling him. But them idiots don't know shiit about Boxing. I think they did of great job of handling him. Reid was already struggling with fighters he had no business struggling with in sparring. Him losing to a lesser fighter in the ring would not be a surprise. So they took advantage of his undefeated record and title and cashed him out against Felix Trinidad. He took a beating in the fight. But he accounted himself quite well and earned a career high pay day of 2.5 million I belive. If Reid would of lost prior to facing Trinidad there was no way he would earn that much money. It was the right move.

[Chris Nagel]

Sons of great fighters often get over-hyped. Camacho Jr. is one that springs to mind.

[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.

[Violent Demise]

Sons of great fighters often get over-hyped. Camacho Jr. is one that springs to mind.

In the beginning I think the hype was justified. Camacho Jr had great hand speed and possessed good power. But in the end he turned out to be a biitch with no heart and poor training habits

[josef4334]

i know ill get crucified on this one but i think joan guzman is all hype too. he challenged almost everybody. accusing everybody on his weight class that they ducked him and on his biggest fight ever(supposed to be) he cant even make weight. boring as hell too!

[Violent Demise]

i know ill get crucified on this one but i think joan guzman is all hype too. he challenged almost everybody. accusing everybody on his weight class that they ducked him and on his biggest fight ever(supposed to be) he cant even make weight. boring as hell too!

I actually agree. Guzman has been a big disappointment of late

[Hulk]

Hector Camacho Jr. and Francisco Bojado come to mind.

Both got spanked courtesy of Jesse James Leija.

[CutMeMick]

Michael Grant
"Panchito" Bojado
Joel Julio

[BIG H]

Nicolay Valuev

[ICB]

You out of your mind. I expected better from you. Reid was an over achiever in the sport of Boxing. Not to many people can become World Champs fighting with basically one eye.

You on the Saddo's top 10 posters pound for pound list. But p4p or not take your neg rep.

HAHA...wut a Dikk.What goes around comes around potna but Im going to rise above this night

Reid skilled no doubt,slick fawka.But He rode that lone olympian hype all over the networks and burned quick.Just never did it for me,Loved his smashing on usually tough Rupa,what he did to Waaaay past it Brown is what I hold against him.You KNOW that was a mirage.It got ugly at the end with him,getting knocked around by so-so types.

Reid had fantastic skills. And a great right hand. But that eye was a liability. He was basically a one eyed fighter. For him to become a champion and beat some good fighters along the way, to me is highly impressive.

A bunch of idiots like to blame Reid's handlers for rushing him in against Felix Trinidad. They think they did a poor job of handling him. But them idiots don't know shiit about Boxing. I think they did of great job of handling him. Reid was already struggling with fighters he had no business struggling with in sparring. Him losing to a lesser fighter in the ring would not be a surprise. So they took advantage of his undefeated record and title and cashed him out against Felix Trinidad. He took a beating in the fight. But he accounted himself quite well and earned a career high pay day of 2.5 million I belive. If Reid would of lost prior to facing Trinidad there was no way he would earn that much money. It was the right move.

I agree i don't think David Reid was a hype job either he was a good fighter, with good handspeed/slickness ETC. I have watched a few of his fights and he did struggle against people like Kevin Kelly who is only decent.

But then he did comeback and beat Keith Mullings who despite the record, wern't a bad fighter himself he had a win over Terry Norris. Granted it wasn't a prime Terry Norris but i see that fight, and Terry Norris still performed well in that fight.

And he was ahead but he got hurt and floored in round 8, and never recovered in the next round. Keith Mullings actually was only beat convincingly by Winky Wright, Steve Roberts, that was shocking to see Keith Mullings stopped so early against Steve Roberts.

But anyway i thought David Reid was doing pretty good after 6 rounds against Felix Trinidad, i thought he was possibly ahead by 1 round. And he scored a decent knockdown, but after that it all went downhill and he got battered.

But he still showed heart especially in the later rounds when he fought back, overall i think it was a hell of an achievement to win rounds and go 12 rounds against a prime Felix Trinidad. And even if he wouldn't of fought him the eye would always be a problem, and he wouldn't of had a long career anyway.

Didn't he get the eye injury in the Olympics or something ? i remember hearing about that somewhere but i can't remember. By the way what is David Reid doing now anyway ?

[ICB]

i know ill get crucified on this one but i think joan guzman is all hype too. he challenged almost everybody. accusing everybody on his weight class that they ducked him and on his biggest fight ever(supposed to be) he cant even make weight. boring as hell too!

Being disappointing of late and being a hype job is totally different, Joan Guzman is P4P one of the most skilled fighters in the world today. And he could beat anyone on any given night.

And i honestly can't see how any true fan could find watching a skilled fighter like that boring. But i guess everyone has there own tastes/opinions.

[cpcompany]

In England ,Pele Reid was massively hyped. A few heavy KO defeats later he became a complete nobody.

[Fenster]

i know ill get crucified on this one but i think joan guzman is all hype too. he challenged almost everybody. accusing everybody on his weight class that they ducked him and on his biggest fight ever(supposed to be) he cant even make weight. boring as hell too!

Being disappointing of late and being a hype job is totally different, Joan Guzman is P4P one of the most skilled fighters in the world today. And he could beat anyone on any given night.

And i honestly can't see how any true fan could find watching a skilled fighter like that boring. But i guess everyone has there own tastes/opinions.

Well said.

Guzman disgraced himself last year but is far from just a hype job.

And boring? Behave.

[BIG H]

In England ,Pele Reid was massively hyped. A few heavy KO defeats later he became a complete nobody.

He did beat Klitchko though - ask Fenster

[Fenster]

Lets get it right H

Pele SPARKED Vitali. Fact.