{"id":37325,"date":"2025-08-01T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37325\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:21:10","slug":"eddie-hearn-names-savage-knockout-artist-as-boxings-most-overrated-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37325\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn names savage knockout artist as boxing\u2019s most overrated letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eddie Hearn has recently announced his most overrated boxer of all time, and it may surprise fans given potential future plans.<\/p>\n

Eddie Hearn<\/a> has been around boxing since he was a child. With his boxing empire passed down to him from his father, Barry, Hearn has seen many fighters come and go and has recently spoken on who he feels is underrated, and, who he thinks is overrated.<\/p>\n

Hearn suggested certain greats never got the respect they deserved such as Pernell Whitaker and Meldrick Taylor, and even suggested Gennadiy Golovkin<\/a> being from Kazakhstan played a part in him not getting the flowers he might\u2019ve got if he were American or British.<\/p>\n

When it came to the most overrated fighter, Hearn was confident in his pick.<\/p>\n

\"EddiePhoto by Mark Robinson\/Getty ImagesEddie Hearn names Deontay Wilder as the most overrated boxer of all time<\/p>\n

In the \u2018Let Me Tell You Something\u2019 podcast with Jermaine Jenas and Derek Chisora<\/a>, Hearn was asked about the most under and overrated boxers in the sport.<\/p>\n

After naming his picks for underrated, Hearn initially struggled with the latter picks, and initially questioned Tyson Fury<\/a>\u2018s resume, which harbours few wins of note despite the elite skillset of \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He then, however, landed on one name: \u201cProbably the most overrated fighter of all time \u2013 Deontay Wilder<\/a>. Who did he beat? Luis Ortiz at 40 years old, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s the best win of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn isn\u2019t wrong to make this comment, as Ortiz is Wilder\u2019s best win, having lost to Tyson Fury, Joseph Parker<\/a>, and Zhilei Zhang<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wilder\u2019s career has been heavily criticized for its lack of credible opponents, and leads many to believe he was never the fighter many thought he was based off of his draw with Fury.<\/p>\n

Deontay Wilder didn\u2019t face a top 100 fighter until his 29th fight<\/p>\n

Hearn is right to criticize Wilder, who split from Malik Scott<\/a>, as a closer look at his resume reveals a host of Wilder\u2019s lackluster opponents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facing lesser opposition is forgivable early in a fighter\u2019s career, but Wilder seemed to never get the memo regarding a step-up, and faced just one fighter ranked in the top 100 in his first 30 fights.<\/p>\n

\"DeontayPhoto by Harry How\/Golden Boy\/Golden Boy\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

That man was Siarhei Liakhovich, who was a natural cruiserweight past his prime.<\/p>\n

In his first 39 fights, Wilder faced just one fighter in the top 20, and that was one of the weakest heavyweight champions boxing has ever seen \u2013 Bermane Stiverne, who broke Wilder\u2019s KO streak<\/a>. Stiverne won the title after defeating Chris Arreola.<\/p>\n

Wilder has since faced talented opposition, and come up short every time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn has recently announced his most overrated boxer of all time, and it may surprise fans given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6572,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}