Obscure fighters that no one remembers.

Yeah, good interview series for getting info about former fighters and what their up to now.

 

Alfredo Urbina - the original Canelo. A top lightweight/jr. welterweight during the 60s who beat such champions as Jose Napoles, Eddie Perkins, Joe Brown, Chango Carmona and Lauro Salas as well as drawing with Sugar Ramos and Carlos Hernandez. Also beat top contenders Paul Armstead, Baby Vasquez, Mauro Vasquez and L.C. Morgan. Was also in the ring in losing efforts to Ismael Laguna, Nicolino Loche, Len Matthews and Doug Vailant. These type of fighters should never be forgotten.

 

One that gets me is fairly recent but was a really skilled, talented dude... Miguel Ángel González

Never gets a mention.

 

He also fought Angel Robinson Garcia. When I wrote my article on Robinson Garcia for Wikipedia, I noticed his name among the many, many names Robinson Garcia fought. I think they split a pair of fights, which would tell us how good Robinson Garcia really was in that era of one world champion only.

 

Hiroyuki Ebihara is another fighter that doesn’t get talked about enough but deserves more attention. Very underrated boxer and skillful southpaw.

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He lost twice to Horacio Accavallo from Argentina in very close fights. He’s also another least talked about fighter.

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James Page.

 

Alfonso Sanchez.

 

There’s a whole Left Coast scene in the later 1960s and well into the 1970s at the lighter weights that’s way overlooked.

The top tier — Danny Lopez, Ruben Olivares, Bobby Chacon — are pretty well-known.

The next tier, however, is largely forgotten: action fighters who earned their paychecks and often a few extra bucks when they divided up the coins that poured into the ring from the seats by patrons pleased with their displays as warriors, win or lose.

I’m talking about Arturo Leon, Shig Fukuyama, Jimmy Heair (who went up and down the coast). There were others as well.

There was also a nice scene in Northern California with Pete Ranzany at its center, drawing huge live crowds.

What a time to be in California as a boxing fan.

 

Tyrone Everett, 36-1 top Super Featherweight contender from the 70's, should of been 37-0 and WBC champ but got robbed in his fight vs long reigning champ Alfredo Escalera in 1976.

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Escalera and Everett were scheduled to have a rematch in June 1977 in Puerto Rico, but Everett was murdered by his girlfriend on May 26 when she caught him with a transvestite, bizarre story. Everett was only 24 years old before his passing, could of been the GOAT at 130 and one of the best to come out of Philadelphia .

 

A guy who isn’t obscure but hardly ever gets mentioned is Beau Jack.

 

Lots of forgotten champions in latin america

Victor Galindez is one great argentinian champion who doesn't get a lot of mentions nowadays... same with Goyo Peralta, another forgotten argentinian champion

Arturo Godoy is a forgotten boxer who is considered the best chilean boxer ever, he went the distance with Joe Louis and gave him serious fits.

Colombian Rodrigo Valdez is quite well known, but his compatriot Antonio Cervantes is kinda forgotten.

Brazilian Eder Joffre was considered as the best bantamweight ever, but today very few rememeber him outside Brazil.

Mike Mccallum from Jamaica should be a lot more mentioned over here, considering he was world champion in three categories and was never KOd

I have never seen the peruvian Mauro Mina mentioned here, althought he was for a brief time the n1 challenger in the LHW category during the early sixties.

 

Acavallo should be in the IBHOF

And a funny thing, if you say his last name rightr, it soulds like "A caballo"...which of course means "(he or she is) on the horse".

Horacio (is) on the horse ..lol

 

Agree on everything but this.

If anything its the other way around, Cervantes is in the Hall of Fame and widely remembered as the greatest ever boxer from Colombia, while Valdez should be in the HOF but is not.

 

Lupe Madera and Francisco Quiroz are never mentioned. Their fight was a cracker of a battle. Both were WBA world junior flyweight champions.