Fighters that you (controversially) think are overrated

[THE THIRD MAN]

Should be a good topic for discussion. Been done before, but still fun nonetheless.

I'll start with

Kostya Tszyu

Best win? Judah?
Duffed up by Vince Philips! (who was coming off a loss and 2 losses in 4)
Duffed up by Hatton!

Very very good fighter and the best of his time, but in all time terms I don't think he belongs with Aaron Pryor, Barney Ross, Wilfredo Benitez, PBF, Pac and maybe Cervantes and Canzoneri.

It's very hard to take a thread like this seriously when you start with a guy who was best of his time for 10 years, was undisputed champion and fought 16 world champions (50% of all opponents he faced) beating a former world champion in just his 4th pro fight!

On that logic of Tszyu losing to Phillips you might as well include Carlos Monzon who lost to a guy called Felipe Cambeiro 43-16-4 in 1964 knocking Monzon down 3 times along the way. I guess Monzon is over rated
Or Alexis Arguello who inexplicably lost to Vilomar Fernadez 30-16-2 in 1977 after stringing togther 26 consecutive wins since his previous defeat!

My point is fighters lose fights, it's how they come back from defeat that makes them real champions. Tszyu was remarkable after losing to Phillips, he dominated a division that at one time was lauded as the best in the world, it is only years later that people say it wasn't that strong? He destroys former lightweight Champion Miguel Angel Gonzalez (who defended that title 10 times) and was fresh from fights with DLH and a draw with JCC, he KO's Judah who was in his prime and a prohibitive favourite, he stops Mitchell (twice) who had not lost for 7 years prior and all this means he is overrated?

What a shame fighters such as Hamed and Hatton decided to take their bat and ball and go home after tasting defeat.

It's very hard to take a response seriously that comes from an Australian

It's just opinions mate, I think he was brillaint, but still overrated.

And a petty Tszyu didn't pick up his bat and ball after losing to Hatton He was still realtively young had had less fights than Hatton (even at that point) and had not exactly been in many wars in order to make him a worn fighter

He was 36 in 2005 and was in the ring for just 3 rounds in the preceding 36 months since January 2003! Injuries and age caught up with him and he still gave the fatboy a nice old touch up (see Hatton's face after fight) Hatton's tactics of using Tszyu's balls as earrings worked perfectly. Hatton was never the same again after this fight. I rate Tszyu 2nd only to "not that bottle" Aaron Pryor as the best 140lb champion ever. Do we say that Sugar Shane Mosley is over rated? His record since 2002 reads 17- 8-7-1 with 1 NC, hardly scintillating stuff from the sugarman? Yet, he will be forever regarded as one of the best Lightweight champions of all time, do we reassess his opponents and base our viewpoint about Mosley solely on his first win against DLH?