
Originally Posted by
luvfightgame

Originally Posted by
LEGION

Originally Posted by
luvfightgame
I think he's overrated by contender fans who aren't boxing fans. Generally boxing fans don't give him much credit, and probably under rate him. The contender fighters on a whole catch a lot of flack over this. Overall I don't really like him, but I think he's a decent fighter. I think his machismo has given him a few questionable decisions that could have went the other way.
I think people expect too much out of the contender fighters and expect that they are supposed to be world beaters. They participate in a tournament and receive a reward for winning and just the participation. It's a business and they get a big jump in their business from the exposure. I don't think Mora deserves a title shot, but most titlest are more interested in high profile fighters than they are tough competetion. He's fairly high profile and will draw a larger purse for both fighters because of it. Overall I don't think he's overrated in skill, cause he's not widely thought of as being skilled. However he is overrated in proportion to his skill and popularity. He's obviously more popular than skilled, so I can't think of a word to describe it better than overrated, but it just doesn't seem to fit.

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Maybe we need a new word to describe it. Anyone got an idea

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Hyped

Overhyped!!!!!
That's it. Fits perfectly in my opinion.
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But overhyped by whom though?
Certainly not anybody on this board, or I suspect any other boxing fan board except the Snake Pit.
Certainly not by the commentators either who always give an impartial and accurate assessment of a fighter.
He won the first Contender series which obviously put him in the public consciousness and now his fights get televised. That's hardly a case of being overhyped. I've never heard a single boxing commentator or analyst say that he is a future champion of the world, have any of you?
I think his boxing ability is underatted by the vast majority of hardcore fight fans who would have no qualms about rating a fighter whom they had never heard of let alone seen fight above him in the middleweight rankings.
He's a decent slick boxer who is on the fringe of breaking into the top 10 middleweights and is almost within reach of a world title shot. That's not overrating him that's just stating the facts.
I've never heard a single person ever say he's a future world champ or a p4p star, he is what he is, an ermerging talent in the middleweight division who may or may not become a factor in the division.
I've never heard any boxing analysist ever claim anything more.
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