Fantastic fighters the average Joe hasn't heard of!

Benny valgar

 

Then avg. Joe doesn't think they are.

 

If the avg. joe hasn't heard of them, then how can he have an opinion on them? :think

 

Ah, Benny Valgar, the French Flash...So great a boxer that he was NEVER KOD in over 200 bouts...

 

Mike McCallum
Salvador Sanchez
Julian Jackson
Donald Curry
Jose Napoles
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Emile Griffith
Carlos Napoles

 

thousands, literally over the years, thousands...

to think that the 11 listed ranked fighters (Champ & Top 10), sum up the whole boxing world is quite a bit niave really.

Boxing IS Notorious for Corruption, Ducking/Avoidance, Partisanship, Step aside pay-offs and all manner of Skulduggery, it is The Most Crooked Sport in the History of Sport, more than Horse Racing and in recent years Figure Skating LOL.

there have been countless upon countless Contenders and Fringe Contenders that didn't belong to the right people and couldn't get near the champions. This is also greater in numbers at different periods from the sports more superior timess. The most famous probably Charley Burley, but he is not alone. Some of the great historians/researchers on here will provide the names of dozens I'm sure, and IF this thread continues you could end up seeing a couple of hundred names or more listed.

From my 3 homes, Scotland, Canada & England I can think of a few.

Vic Foley
Johnny Greco
Johnny Coulon
Jackie Callura

Len Johnson
Jack Casey
Tommy Martin
Eric Boon
Ernie Roderick
Ginger Sadd
Arthur Danahar
Jackie Brown

Elky Clark
Alec Lafferty
Tommy Milligan
Jake Kilrain (Scots Welterweight)
Jim Brady
Bert Gilroy
Peter Keenan
Chic Calderwood
Cowboy McCormack

Scotland and England had no end of little guys, at one time leading the world for little guys, Canada had all those Montreal fighters of the 30s, 40s and 50s too if my memory is right.

and of course there's the rest of the Boxing world, Auz & New Zealand, Europe & S.Africa, Mexico, Central & S.America (hundreds from there alone), and of course the U S, and all the many different Era's from greatest times to not so great times.

There really have been thousands of great fighters, thousands.

 

Billy Petrolle
Pete Herman
Jack Dillon
Jack Delaney
Augie Ratner
Jimmy Slattery
Sammy Mandell
Bud Taylor
Jack Chase
Jeff Smith
That's a start.

 

In recent times, Brian Mitchell's name is seldom mentioned. You do get Nazarov respect but little is heard of Gregorian.

 

William Gorilla Jones was called a fighter far superior to Teddy Yarosz by Teddys own Mrg Ray Foutts.
Thats some praise!

Panama Joe Gans was compared favorably to Sugar Ray Robinson in mid 1940s Ring Magazine articles.
This included the highly esteemed opinion of Dumb Dan Morgan.
Another said both welter champs, Ted Kid Lewis and Jack Britton developed a sudden deafness whenever "Pannys" name was mentioned.

 

If you're talking about the typical "casual fan", then probably about 98% of fighters who could be called "fantastic". For the general public, the figure is probably around 99.99999%.

 

Peter Jackson.

 

Doesn't show on the footage. Yarosz seems way trickier to me. Then again Jones could hold his own against Steele at least twice. That entire MW generation deserves a closer examination really. Brouillard, Overlin, Risko, Apostoli, Hostak,... Damn. Looking back that's quite a roster.

 

from all i have read... Bernard “Superbad” Mays