Most Boring/Over-Hyped Fights

[TommyV]

Just wouldn't to know out of interest what the most boring fight you've ever watched is and what you think the most over hyped fight ever was?

I'd like to put forward Floyd-Oscar as an over hyped fight, probably not the most overhyped fight ever but was labelled as the fight to save boxing, and turned out to be pretty dull imo.

I'd also like to mention Sprott-Skelton as one of the most boring fights, 12 rounds of hugging and plodding around, it really was less fun than drowning.

Pretty pointless article but it's a debate nonetheless lol.

EDIT: Think I may of put this in the wrong section, if so sorry.

[jecxbox]

The most boring AND over hyped fight IMO = Oscar/Tito....Total let down.

[Bazooka]

Actually I am in the minority here regarding DLH PBF, I thought it was a great fight, not fight of the year material or anything but a close contested fight with two of the best Boxer/Punchers in the game, I know nobody was expecting it to turn out to be a Gatti Ward type fight but the hype made you want to beleive we would get more than what we really knew we were in store for.
I think the most over hyped fight in recent years was Probably Tarver vs Hopkins, great win for Hopkins but I really felt that we would get so much more than what we got.

[KCD]

Lennox Lewis v Holyfield 1. I though was boring due to the fact that Lewis did hardly anything when he could have made a real big statement.

I was in the minority who scored Lewis Holy 1 114-114 and i had Holy winning their rematch 115-113.

Over hyped: Lewis Tyson, mainly due to the fact that Tyson had about 7 rounds in three years and Mike came in about 18lbs heavier than ever before and he was shot to shit.

and DLH v Tito:- for the two best welters it was hardly Leonard Hearns

[El Presidente]

The Fight of the millenium

ODLH vs Trinidad

[Ambition_Def]

Yea you can't go any more 180 than Trinidad-DLH. That fight sucked up until Tito got the W and GoldenShowers got pissed. Up until that though it was lame.

[Thread Stealer]

Most Overhyped:

Trinidad-De La Hoya
Mayweather-De La Hoya
Lewis-Tyson

Most Boring:

Jones-Harding
Judah-Witter

[Punisher33]

Boring- Wlad/Iggy, I never seen two men so afraid to throw a power punch, that fight alone turned many away from the Heavyweight division, I'm just glad that fight wasnt on PPV.

[TommyV]

Boring- Wlad/Iggy, I never seen two men so afraid to throw a power punch, that fight alone turned many away from the Heavyweight division, I'm just glad that fight wasnt on PPV.

Too true. How pissed would you of been if you payed to watch that pile of shit.

[Thread Stealer]

Evander Holyfield-John Ruiz 3 was atrocious.

Although that trilogy always get bashed, the first 2 fights really weren't all that terrible. The first fight was close and fought at a reasonably good pace, and the rematch had a strong finish. Hopkins-Allen was a worse trilogy.

But the third Ruiz-Holyfield fight was just god-awful.

J.M. Marquez-Gainer, Byrd-Williamson, Hopkins-Wright, Ruiz-Rahman, and Raheem-Freitas were all dreadful fights.

[Punisher33]

Too true. How pissed would you of been if you payed to watch that pile of shit. Extremely, the worst part is, I probably would of paid for it, no more than 30-35 bucs though. I remember back in July of last year there were talks of putting the Brewster/Wlad 2 fight on PPV, I would of spent 50-60 on that, seeing that Brewster is one of my favorite fighters. If I would paid for that one, I probably would of kicked a hole in my TV.

[PH|LLA]

Wlad - Ibragimov

WHAT THE FUCK WAS WLAD DOING. NOONE WANTS TO SEE THAT SHIT

[TFFP]

Wlad - Ibragimov

WHAT THE FUCK WAS WLAD DOING. NOONE WANTS TO SEE THAT SHIT
:yep

That was dismal. Ibragimov was pathetic, but he just knew his ass was beat in there and wanted to go 12 so I can't get too mad. What the FUCK was Waldo's excuse? :-(

[Imperial1]

Tua/ Lewis !!

[Oscar de la Roa]

Most boring was taylor hopkins....

[J.R.]

De La Hoya - Hopkins = Boring as fuck!

[J.R.]

hold up! the most over hyped dud fight was mayweather vs dlh. this was the fight that was supposed to "save boxing"... highly antisipated, great build up with hbo's 24/7, record breaking ppv #'s........ what a dissapointment!I didn't think that fight was that bad. I rather enjoyed most of it. A decent technical matchup a hardcire fan could appreciate. Although I can't say the same about the casual fans of which most thought the fight sucked. Oh well.

[IsaL]

John Ruiz vs Anyone (except vs Tua)
Tua vs Lewis
The entire Don King card where Mayorga fought Spinks and Hopkins fought Joppy.

[IsaL]

Winky Wright is boring.

[maximumsg]

Lewis vs anyone other than rock and vitali

[Silvermags]

Most Overhyped:

Trinidad-De La Hoya
Mayweather-De La Hoya
Lewis-Tyson

Most Boring:

Jones-Harding
Judah-Witter

ALL :good :good :good
Can't comment on Judah-Witter. Was not able to watch it!

[maximumsg]

Winky Wright is boring.

except when he got robbed by taylor (draw)

[KDot10]

Klitschko Ibragimov, easily thee most boring I've watched

[dave82]

Sultan Ibragimov vs Evander Hoyfield. I had more enjoyment watching my cat lick itself

[Taylex]

Most of BHOP's whole career (except the Tito fight and Glen Johnson fight)

[dave82]

Most of BHOP's whole career (except the Tito fight and Glen Johnson fight)

And what of the Echols fights? They were entertaining

[P.4.P.G.O.A.T.]

Boring- Wlad/Iggy, I never seen two men so afraid to throw a power punch, that fight alone turned many away from the Heavyweight division, I'm just glad that fight wasnt on PPV.

Agreed - we got a true stinker for the first heavyweight unification in 8 years.

[Punisher33]

Agreed - we got a true stinker for the first heavyweight unification in 8 years. How sad, I thought that might be the fight to help put the division back on the map again, instead it messed things up even more, I'm just glad my MMA friends werent watching it at my place that night, they would still be talking shit even now about it.

[jabo]

hopkins v winky

[jecxbox]

Wlad - Ibragimov

WHAT THE FUCK WAS WLAD DOING. NOONE WANTS TO SEE THAT SHIT


hahahahahahhahaha omfg why did you remind me that this fight ever took place? UGUGUGGHGHHHHHHGHGHGHH!!!!:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch:patsch

[kracka81]

remember pernell whittaker and oscar delahoya was boring pernell ran the whole fight i was pissed i paid to watch a track meet

[Asterion]

Oscar-Tito.

[J.R.]

dont get me wrong, i'm glad i seen the fight and will probably pay for the 2nd if it happens. but as far as OVER-HYPED fights that never lived up to expectations..... c'mon.You're absolutely right. I didn't like the way the fight was billed and hyped as 'The fight That Would Save Boxing'. Pfffft, Boxing had plenty of great fights that year so they didn't need "saving" from these two overpaid pricks. In fact, the fight probably did boxing a great disservice and actually turned much more fans away than it attracted. :-(

[CASH_718]

except when he got robbed by taylor (draw)And against Vargas. And Simon. And Soliman. And Mosley.

[MexicanJew]

Lewis Tyson. Horrible fucking mismatch in which I watched Tyson get battered around the ring while looking to land one punch. The amount of hype that fight got was ridiculous

[CASH_718]

Most of BHOP's whole career (except the Tito fight and Glen Johnson fight)Hopkins has been in alot of great fights.

Trinidad, Johnson, Echols 1 and 2, Allen 2, Joppy, Mercardo 1 and 2, and Lipsey.

[PH|LLA]

Most of BHOP's whole career (except the Tito fight and Glen Johnson fight)
man this is retarded. Hopkins has been in alot of really good fights.

[josak]

well Tyson Lewis could have been a great fight, but it happened too late.

[cardstars]

It wasn't a hyped fight but Spinks/Taylor was REALLY bad. Pavlik/Miranda on the under was amazing, and then we got that piece of shit for the main event. Otherwise Wlad/Iggy was a disgrace, and Tito/DLH never lived up to the hype

[Dostoevsky]

DLH-Mayweather was a colossal dissapointment for the amount of hype it received.

[hellblazer]

De La Hoya - Mayweather
and "Pretty Risky"

[LiamE]

Lennox Lewis v Holyfield 1. I though was boring due to the fact that Lewis did hardly anything when he could have made a real big statement.

I was in the minority who scored Lewis Holy 1 114-114 and i had Holy winning their rematch 115-113.

Over hyped: Lewis Tyson, mainly due to the fact that Tyson had about 7 rounds in three years and Mike came in about 18lbs heavier than ever before and he was shot to shit.

and DLH v Tito:- for the two best welters it was hardly Leonard Hearns

Learn how to score a fight mate. Lewis dominated the first match throwing twice as many punches and landing 3 times as many. How is that a draw?

[booklord]

Worst Fight
--------------------
Spinks-Taylor

Most experts felt going in that this was going to be a bad fight between two fighters whose styles did not at all mesh with each other. But this fight exceeded all their expectations in its suckitude.

Most Over-hyped fight
-------------------
DLH - Mayweather

It's not that it was a bad fight. It was just hyped to the point of ridiculousness with that "Fight the world waited for" stuff.

[smiffy]

Lewis vs anyone other than rock and vitali


you've obviously watched alot of boxing

lewis vs .....golota, ruddock, grant, tyson, botha, mccall, bruno and many more were defineately not boring.

[Asterion]

--

Most boring: TOS-Byrd, Spinks-Taylor, Wlad-Ibragimov.

Most over-hyped: De la Hoya-Mayweather. It worked, though, because it broke the PPV records.

[Thread Stealer]

Lewis vs anyone other than rock and vitali

I never liked Lummox, but this is nonsense.

Briggs, Golota, Ruddock, Mercer, Grant, and Botha all were either entertaining fights or explosive KOs. The Bruno fight was intriguing and suspenseful and ended in dramatic fashion.

[CottoDaBodykill]

Ali vs Frazier I ..

most over hyped .. the hype leading up to it would have lead you to believe world war III was starting .. fight didn't give us the expectations leading up to it ..

most boring? ..easily tyson holyfield I .. just two guys clinchin and throwing shots on the inside.. i thought they should have at least made it toe to toe

[T.S.]

Leonard-Duran III.

Great pick. That's my vote too.

More recent I'd go with Peter/Toney rematch

[Thread Stealer]

Leonard-Duran III.

My god that fight was boring.

[Punisher33]

Ali vs Frazier I ..

most over hyped .. the hype leading up to it would have lead you to believe world war III was starting .. fight didn't give us the expectations leading up to it ..

most boring? ..easily tyson holyfield I .. just two guys clinchin and throwing shots on the inside.. i thought they should have at least made it toe to toe Tyson/Holyfield 1 boring?:patsch Get real, correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt it win Ring's 1996's fight of the year? I could think of at least thousand more boring fights than that one.

[jlrivera81]

Most boring was FLoyd vs Baldomir

[AlbertaFightFan]

Slappy Joe vs Ol' Popkins gets a vote from me for most boring consideration. My son fell asleep watching it and I darn near joined him.

I can agree with DLH vs PBF for over-hyped.

The Grant vs Lewis fight was pretty hyped by the American media thinking that Grant was the next coming and would walk away with the title from the British pretender. Fight was pretty one-sided and definately didn't live up to the hype.

[shavers]

Wlad- Ibragimov....All that hype, and what we ended up with was a lot of armslapping and running....:patsch

[Thread Stealer]

Tyson/Holyfield 1 boring?:patsch Get real, correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt it win Ring's 1996's fight of the year? I could think of at least thousand more boring fights than that one.

Holyfield-Tyson I was one of the worst choices for Fight of the Year in recent memory, but yeah, that's an awful choice for most boring fight.

[Bazooka]

Learn how to score a fight mate. Lewis dominated the first match throwing twice as many punches and landing 3 times as many. How is that a draw?

Honestly I didnt see a draw there but I can see how he got a draw, there were some middle to late rounds that Lewis feel asleep in, but honestly I thought lewis won, The reason I am replying to your post is becuase you said Lewis landed three times as many shots, which is true but he could have done most of his landing in some rounds such as Round 5 were he seemed to be landing at will but honestly when you look at that round even though he won it big.
Honestly looking at it again Holyfield was slipping and rolling with alot of those shots, but it was still a Lewis round, However when a fighter rolls with shots even though they dont land or dont land clean they look like they are landing which is why Compu box needs to go, a fighter that rolls with shots will always be at a dis advantage with the compu box system simply becuase its too hard for them to see what is actually going on.

[joe the great]

Tua/ Lewis !!
That was a snorer.

[pipe wrenched]

Boring- Wlad/Iggy, I never seen two men so afraid to throw a power punch, that fight alone turned many away from the Heavyweight division, I'm just glad that fight wasnt on PPV.

Briggs/Iggy sucked equally as bad, and I WAS dumb enough to buy that PPV.

[CottoDaBodykill]

Tyson/Holyfield 1 boring?:patsch Get real, correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt it win Ring's 1996's fight of the year? I could think of at least thousand more boring fights than that one.

for what it could have been it was very boring .. that's all i'm saying man it had the guns to be a war .. like bowe holy 3 ...but either one was willing to lay it on the line

[Punisher33]

Holyfield-Tyson I was one of the worst choices for Fight of the Year in recent memory, but yeah, that's an awful choice for most boring fight. Agreed, it wasnt the most exciting fight I ever seen, but it certainly wasnt the most boring fight either. I think only one reporter picked Holyfield over Tyson that night, I forget the guys name, Ron Burgess(spell check) maybe, the fight was actually better than most expected, you must remember, Holyfield just lost to Bowe in 95, and looked pretty bad throughout that fight, many were perdicting Tyson by early KO, not sure if it was upset of the year in 96' too.

[Bazooka]

Rahman vs Ruiz, a fight everybody expected The Rock to clearly win and possibly stop John but nah we got a huge hug fest infact that whole fucking card sucked ass.

[CottoDaBodykill]

i think u all to change the title to del la hoya's most boring and over-hyped fights.

they can't think of anything else but floyd mayweather and oscar delahoya ..it's the mainstream big time rival so of course we're all knowlageable about it now aint we? .. you bring up floyd patterson they stare at you like a dog that's being showed a card trick

[CottoDaBodykill]

Rahman vs Ruiz, a fight everybody expected The Rock to clearly win and possibly stop John but nah we got a huge hug fest infact that whole fucking card sucked ass.

i totally agree..that was the fight i told myself i'd never give rahman credit agian ..one hit wonder is all that man was...you couldn't even give him a title he'd find a way to screw it up

[Punisher33]

Briggs/Iggy sucked equally as bad, and I WAS dumb enough to buy that PPV. That was a bad fight too, though the Iggy/Wlad fight was a unification fight, something we have not seen in 8 years since Lewis/Holyfield. Im surprised that was on PPV, I would be pretty pissed off if I paid for that one.

[thewoo]

I think that was the most dissapointing about Oscar vs Tito is that the fight had so much potential . Both guys have been in some real crowd pleasers and they just didn't perform that night.

[Punisher33]

for what it could have been it was very boring .. that's all i'm saying man it had the guns to be a war .. like bowe holy 3 ...but either one was willing to lay it on the line I hear you, but most were perdicting an early knockout for Tyson, especially since Holyfield looked so bad against Bowe less than a year before. I just feel you could of picked other fights before that one, thats all.

[eliqueiros]

hopkins v winky

Yes, I was thinking of this one as well. Cautious counterpuncher that likes to clinch vs turtle shell defence that has a great jab.

[eliqueiros]

I don't think Tito/DLH was boring it was just one sided through nine rounds and I remember watching it in a bar full of MExican's and everyone screaming, "What the fuck you doing!" for the last three rounds. This was entertaining but until the ending which I thought at the time was DLH throwing the fight. Now I'm aware he spent all his gas.

PBF/Floyd is good for watching a technical bout and its finest. When I watched if first time I hated Floyd for what I thought was running away. Now I realize Hoya isn't Hatton and that's what Floyd had to do to win. Fair enough. If a cougar fights a bear you can't expect him to fight the bear's fight.

[Thread Stealer]

Agreed, it wasnt the most exciting fight I ever seen, but it certainly wasnt the most boring fight either. I think only one reporter picked Holyfield over Tyson that night, I forget the guys name, Ron Burgess(spell check) maybe, the fight was actually better than most expected, you must remember, Holyfield just lost to Bowe in 95, and looked pretty bad throughout that fight, many were perdicting Tyson by early KO, not sure if it was upset of the year in 96' too.

Oh, I can't stand that plagarizing Ron Borges. He can write well (he had a great article on Kassim Ouma a few years ago), but what a smug jerk he comes across as (and people in boxing say he is).

I think he just picked against Tyson because of his dislike of him or maybe he just often picks upsets so he can look good when he finally gets one right.

I remember him talking before Mayweather-Gatti about how Floyd would go through hell.

[Punisher33]

Oh, I can't stand that plagarizing Ron Borges. He can write well (he had a great article on Kassim Ouma a few years ago), but what a smug jerk he comes across as (and people in boxing say he is).

I think he just picked against Tyson because of his dislike of him or maybe he just often picks upsets so he can look good when he finally gets one right.

I remember him talking before Mayweather-Gatti about how Floyd would go through hell. He was way off on that one, I knew Gatti was going to get destroyed that night. I think Borges was round off of his perdiction if memory is correct, every dog has his day.

[pipe wrenched]

That was a bad fight too, though the Iggy/Wlad fight was a unification fight, something we have not seen in 8 years since Lewis/Holyfield. Im surprised that was on PPV, I would be pretty pissed off if I paid for that one.

:yep And the undercard was horse shit too.:rofl

Rober Stieglitz vs. some old man.

[Punisher33]

:yep And the undercard was horse shit too.:rofl

Rober Stieglitz vs. some old man.:rofl I never heard of him, so he cant be that good. Iggy/Briggs was terrible, but Wlad/Iggy was a little worse, based primarily on the signifigance of it.

[Chiko_Tech]

Every Zahir Raheem and Cory Spinks fights. Both fighters put you in a snooze fest.

[Thread Stealer]

Every Zahir Raheem and Cory Spinks fights. Both fighters put you in a snooze fest.

The Judah-Spinks fights were actually decent.

[jaois138]

I would have to say....Hopkins/Taylor.

[Ramshall1]

Fraud-DLH

Lennox-Tua

[box3r86]

[quote=KCD]
I was in the minority who scored Lewis Holy 1 114-114 and i had Holy winning their rematch 115-113.

you had the 1st one a draw and the 2nd a win for holyfield!?

are you totally blind!?

did you actually watch the fights?

[jimmie]

Winky Wright is boring.

Read the thread :good 2nd hes not exactly Gatti but hes been in alot of good fights Taylor,Vargas,Mosley II,Candelo,Soliman.

[jimmie]

Every Zahir Raheem and Cory Spinks fights. Both fighters put you in a snooze fest.

Agreed Raheem is hard to watch what kind of fighter has it in him to fight boring fights with Acelino Freitas and Erik Morales 2 men who have provided us with some great bouts almost every time they fought the last decade.

[El Borracho]

Evander Holyfield-John Ruiz 3 was atrocious.

Although that trilogy always get bashed, the first 2 fights really weren't all that terrible. The first fight was close and fought at a reasonably good pace, and the rematch had a strong finish. Hopkins-Allen was a worse trilogy.

But the third Ruiz-Holyfield fight was just god-awful.

J.M. Marquez-Gainer, Byrd-Williamson, Hopkins-Wright, Ruiz-Rahman, and Raheem-Freitas were all dreadful fights.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]

[LennoxGOAT]

Fraud-DLH

Lennox-Tua


Lennox-Tua was a complete destruction. He absolutely broke his ass down.