Great Fighter's that are mainly forgotten about today?

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    Fighters that perhaps featured regularly in the media but are now all but forgotten about?
     
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    Wild Bill Hanrahan.
     
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    Carlos Ortiz.
     
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    Holman William s
    Charley Burley
    Sam Langford (not on here but generally forgot about in history)
     
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    Mike Gibbons
     
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    Freddie Miller. One of the truly great feathers, hardly ever spoken about.

    Bob Montgomery. Not as great as Miller but had a special career.

    Willie Joyce, who won a series with Armstrong. People just don't seem interested.
     
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    Slipped away in to oblivion sadly.
    Packey McFarland, the uncrowned light weight champ
     
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    Mickey Walker gets treated as just a pioneer, scrapper, breadline sort when he was a pretty incredible fighting machine and looks great on film.
     
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    Of a more recent vintage, these guys were very well-known in their times (even to casuals) and you don’t see their names come up much anymore:

    Danny Lopez

    Carlos Palomino

    Eusebio Pedroza

    Vinny Pazienza

    Marvin Johnson
     
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    of more recent note..

    Henry Maske
    Julio Cesar Vazquez
    Vernon Forrest
     
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    And I'd add Michael Nunn to those recently, that are mainly now forgotten.
     
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    Harold Johnson
     
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