Most underrated fighters of all time?

what you sayin Chandler was better looking? haha fookin batty crease

 

Benny Lynch
Randolph Turpin
Jame "Buddy" McGirt Sr

 

Benton is a great call.


Not as good, but i've always liked Jean-claude Bouttier.Like most of the top Euro fighters of that '60s/70s period he was a real neat and tidy technical fighter despite lacking notable physical gifts.His effort against Monzon in their rematch was awesome and showed incredible toughness.When he realised he wasn't going to outbox Monzon with his usual style, instead of just going through the motions, or choking he just turns aggressive slugger and counterpuncher, shows Carlos no respect at all and gives a supreme effort.

It was all for nothing in the end, but it was the kind of performance that a lot of the recent lacklustre middleweight champions and contenders haven't remotely approached.

 

From my era Eusebio Pedroza is a bit underrated as well. Falls into Sanchez's shadow. It didn't help that he was dirty and disliked and had some tough fights, but his opposition was excellent. When i think about it there was a very decent array of contenders getting about.

Mamby is underrated. Nothing amazing but far better than his milage.

Of course we need to look back down the ages for the true answer, there's dozens of hidden gems.

 

Mark Johnson he doesnt get mentioned near enough as he should. HTH i cant think of a flyweight in history that would have beat him, he was still awesome at JB too. He was on my PFP list for a while when he was fighting in my top 5 for quite a while, and this was back when we had prime Jones,ODLH,Tito, Etc etc fighting.

 

Too Sharp... what about Kevin Kelly

 

Kevin Kelly was a good fighter but not on Too sharps level. IMO Kelly is not a HOF type of fighter, where as Mark Johnson should be a first ballot HOF, If they were the same weight in their primes id pick Johnson to handle him, maybe even dominate him and ko him early.

Another guy i forgot about was Zack Padilla.

 

tim witherspoon

 

Sammy Mandell
Mike Gibbons
Augie Ratner
Allie Stolz
Al Hostak
Georgie Abrams
Freddie Steele
Fred Apostoli

 

him esecially:good

 

Jose Luis Ramirez

 

Good call, he was a really slick boxer.

 

Kelly was great until he suffered an injury that ruined his balance

 

I ma more than certain you saw him fight at the Forum

 

Venice Borkorsor
Alfonso Lopez
Halimi Gutierrez
Chucho Castillo
Gaby Canizales
Alfredo Urbina
Chango Carmona
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Eddie Perkins
Ayub Kalule
Vito Antuofermo
Zora Folley
Jerry Quarry

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