I understand that point, and what i'm saying is that there is nobody that fights in the HEAVYWEIGHT division, aka the verbal diarrhea division, that qualifies as a monster puncher (which i presume to indicate the very hardest of punchers) that won't have been chatted up twenty times on this forum in the last twenty fifteen years. Ergo qualifying for "overlooked". On the other hand there will be loads of punchers, dozens and dozens, like Actis.
I don't know if they were overlooked but Ruddock, Morrison, Tua...all left hook monsters. But what is the definition of a puncher? Is it just the 1 signature special punch or geniune power in both hands with several punch variants? So that makes Foreman, Louis, Liston and Tyson superioir punchers. With some guys...it's like that: either they are totally overrated or totally underrated. F.E. Lennoy Lewis or Mike Tyson. On some Lists they are right on the Top, on some lists they are missing (and i saw many "Greatest Puncher" lists) .
90% of the above mentioned are only overlooked by casuals. Joe Louis, really? Joe Goddard deserves a mention. He was old when he started fighting and all he had was power. He floored a prime Peter Jackson twice, giving him all he could handle. Flattened Maher twice, Choynski and Denver Ed Smith. I have heard two guys, including Lamon Brewster, say that Lionel Butler was among the very hardest punchers they ever faced.
Most of Bowe`s shots weren`t that powerful, but he was heavy handed and did well to KO the iron chinned Holy, however he and Mercder rarely scored one punch KO`s, despite Mercer`s devastating destruction of Morrison.
I think lenglet also lost a leg during the war. I read somewhere in the ruins of Paris George Carpenteir found leglet seared in a cafe and immediately offering to manage him. Lenglet agreed to it but warned him that he only had one leg.