Great underappreciated fighters

Hi robert.
Excellent choices, of which I agree, with your permission might I add , whilst not great maybe :
Kunaki Shibata
Owen Moran
Battling Battalino
Ace Hudkins
Alvaro Lopez
Joe Brown
Charles Humez
Alan Rudkin
keep well buddy.
Mike.

 

Luis Ortiz

 

Jock McAvoy
Bert Gilroy
Robert Villemain
Ernie Roderick
Jim Brady
Jack Casey
Sonny Jones

and dozens & dozens more.

 

Hiroyuki Ebihara
Santos Laciar
Wilfredo Vazquez
Miguel Lora
Gilberto Roman
Chucho Castillo
Lionel Rose
Sumbu Kalambay
Alberto Davila
Ernesto Marcel
Jiro Watanabe

 

Packey McFarland
Terry McGovern
Tommy Ryan
YCIII
Tommy Gibbons
Jimmy Bivins
Pascual Perez
Midget Wolgast
Horacio Accavallo

 

Hilario Zapata might just be the most complete and versatile defensive boxer in the history of the sport and he's never mentioned anywhere!

They even named his gym not after him but after a damn politician!

 

For a long time, these have been my guys: Golota, Zhang, Marciano, Young, Crawford, Pacquiao, Kingston Frazier, anyone in Johnson or Dempsey's top ten and Kun "The Almost Bread" Shibata.

 

Riddick Bowe.

 

Two men who fought each other.. Jimmy Mclarnin & Young Corbett III.

Philadelphia Jack o'Brien.

The two Freds too.. Freddie Steele & Fred Apostoli.

 

Some really good shouts here, especially Chucho and Lionel Rose.

I’d say Kid Gavilan doesn’t get the flowers he deserves these days.

I’d also throw in Danny Lopez, Old Bones Joe Brown and Sammy Angott.

 

Ruben Olivares
Eusebio Pedroza
Manuel Ortiz
Kid Chocolate
Luis Rodriguez
Jimmy Carter
Ike Williams

 

That usually means boring. The spoilers with low power and much skill esp defensive people don’t want to see them and promoters want them to lose. Someone like Jimmy Young who lost a controversial split decision to Norton which led to him being recognized as wbc champ. Then the great Larry Holmes reign started when he beat Norton in a fight that easily could have been scored a draw. So think of it if Young got the nod vs Norton he might have edged Holmes and been champ. But who wanted to see Young advance he was a boring cutesy without power who made everyone look bad. They wanted the handsome powerful Norton or the young prodigy Holmes as their product to sell.

 

Not sure if under appreciated or just kinda forgotten but Jeff Fenech and Khaosai Galaxy are rarely mentioned these days