Underrated Resumes

Jack "Kid" Berg

Wins:
Kid Chocolate (2)
Tony Canzoneri

 

This might be an obvious one, but Jersey Joe Walcott.


Holds SIX career wins against Hall of Famers, Arguably 7 if you count the Joe Louis robbery.

Knocked out two ATG fighters Ezzard Charles and Harold Johnson

In most eyes defeated the # 1 heavyweight of all time Joe Louis

Beat the best of the Black Murders Row Top Ranked fighters: Jimmy Bivins, Lee Q Murray, Elmer Ray 2x

Defeated top 10 rated contenders Joey Maxim 2x, Tommy Gomez, Hatchetman Sheppard 2x, Joe Baksi, Omelio Agramonte, Lee Oma.

Defeated Solid Fringe Contenders Hein Ten Hoff, Ollie Tandberg, Lorenzo Pack, Willie Reddish.


* Defeated Ezzard Charles, Elmer Ray and Jimmy Bivins while they were coming off 4 year undefeated streaks.


Overall, Walcott's resume is filled with all different styles, and all different sizes. In fact, outside of Lennox and Ali, Walcott beat more punchers than any champ in heavyweight history.

 

If your into quantity, a guy you might want to checkout is Tiger Jack Fox. Knocked out more ranked contenders and murder's row type fighters than I can count.

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I got the cream of the crop. Danny Duane.


Danny Duane defeated Sam Langford, Dave Holly, and Jack Blackburn......career 23-12 record.



WOW!!!

 

The Blackburn fight appears to be a NC due to him hitting Blackburn while he was on the canvas. Blackburn and Holly both dropped newspaper decisions before they fought Duane aswell to be fair. Good find though.

 

Looks like they changed the blackburn fight to a NC recently. used to be a TKO. I stand corrected.

 

Tony Lopez was a very good fighter..one of my favorites during his time.

 

Eugene "Silent" Hairston

Drew with LaMotta, beat Paul Pender and Kid Gavilan, and fought a whole bunch of contenders in the late 40's and early 50's.

 

Charley Burley...

 

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Underrated fighter for sure. When i was a member for IBRO boxing historians, I used to get monthly notebooks of hundreds of articles, and one of my issues had numerous articles on him. Good fighter. You can watch him on youtube.

 

Fred Apostoli:

He beat

Melio Bettina
Freddie Steele
Marcel Thil
Lou Broillard
Eddie Babe Risko
Solly Krieger 2x
Georgie Abrams
Young Corbett

 

What about Billy Conn?

people talk about how great he was at LHWT(Which he was), but I'll be dammed if he didn't clean out the 1930s middleweight division which was LOADED with hall of famers and champions.


Billy Conn beat

Tony Zale-
Fritzie Zivic-
Melio Bettina 2x
Gus Lesnevich 2x
Freddie Apostoli 2x
Eddie Babe Risko
Vince Dundee
Teddy Yarosz 2x
Young Corbett
Solly Krieger 2x

As well as Heavyweight Contenders

Lee Savold- Future heavyweight champion belt holder
Bob Pastor- World Title Challenger
Gunnar Barund
Gus Dorazio- World Title Challenger
Buddy Knox
Al Mccoy- World Title Challenger

 

Matt Wells was British and European lightweight champ and world welterweight champ. He was something like 49-30-3 but was only stopped twice and had wins over Freddie Welsh, Owen Moran, Pal Moore and newpaper wins over Abe Attell and Charley White. Fought and lost to Welsh, White, Packey McFarland, Johnny Dundee, Mike Glover, 'Lockport' Jimmy Duffy and Ted 'Kid' Lewis. Not bad at all and one of the best overlooked British fighters.

 

Eddie Blunt has an underrated resume. He lost a lot, but ran up wins over Jack Trammell, LeRoy Haynes, Jorge Brescia, Al Gainer, Abe Simon, Tony Musto, Buddy Baer, Babe Hunt, Lee Savold, and Nathan Mann. Pretty good for a man who never made the yearly ratings.

Charley Retzlaff is a totally forgotten fighter. I was surprised when checking the ko records of top heavyweights of past decades to find that Retzlaff ranked right behind Joe Louis and Buddy Baer for highest ko percentage of the 1930 to 1950 period. He ko'd 52 men in 75 fights, including Tom Heeney, Jack Gagnon, Walter Cobb, Al Ettore, Stanley Poreda, Jack Roper, and Art Lasky (2). He also outpointed Jimmy Braddock and Johnny Risko.

Mauro Mina is perhaps the most forgotten top fighter of them all. His record was 52-3-3 and he notched victories over Bob Foster, Gregorio Peralta, Henry Hank, Eddie Cotton, Hank Casey, Von Clay, and a slew of others. I still don't quite understand why he never got a shot at the title.

 

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