Most underrated fighter(s) in each weight class?

Crusier is Juan Carlos Gomez
168 is probably Froch, whose results completely conflicted with how beatable he looked.
140 might be Bradley currently. His 140 resume is near the absolute top.
For 118, I'd put Tim Austin

Not sure about the rest.

 

Probably plenty of other picks, but here are some I've thought about recently, some are more forgotten than underrated. A lot of these guys moved division too.
Heavyweight
Sullivan (after recent threads)
Light Heavyweight
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
Middleweight
Dan Creedon
Welterweight
Tommy Ryan
Lightweight
Battling Nelson
Featherweight
Owen Moran

 

O Brien was very highly rated by Fleischer,which I find rather strange considering he never defended his title,and participated in several fixed fights.

 

He's hardly the only one to have, but it does muddy the waters. Then again, some I've seen listed as dead cert fakes seem to be based on surprisingly shakey evidence.

He probably didn't defend it because it wasn't well regarded back then, but he had a deep resume, and mostly seems to have been let down by his chin.

Looking at his record as a whole he was probably more accurately a middleweight, it seems to be the weight he fought at most of his career and he even claimed the middlweight title. But he's usually referenced as a L.Heavyweight, and I wanted to add Creedon.

 

Wilfredo Vasquez Sr is one of the most underrated lower weight guys of the past 30 or 40 years, especially at what seemed to be his best weight, 122. The amount of defenses he rattled off in that division was Wilfredo Gomez like in it's sheer numbers.

 

Donaire was one of the best fly/superflys head to head. I think he’d walk through most of the guys down there right now except Innoue, who would be tough.

 

-Heavyweight: No-one anymore.
-Light heavyweight: Jack Dillon
-Middleweight: Gene Fullmer
-Welterweight: Curtis Cokes
-Lightweight: Jimmy Carter
-Featherweight: Eusebio Pedroza
-Bantamweight: Manuel Ortiz
-Flyweight: Miguel Canto

 

HW Tony Tubbs
CW Carlos De Leon
LHW Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
SM Lindell Holmes
M Mustafa Hamsho
LMW Mike McCallum
WW Donald Curry
SLW Frankie Randall
LW Jose Luis Ramirez
SFW Rocky Lockridge
FW Rocky Lockridge
SBW Sergio Palma
BW Jorge Lujan
SFW Can't think of any
FW Sot Chitilada
LFW Freddie Castillo

 

Dillon A forgotten man today,very tough man
Fullmer? Not for me.
Cokes A very good fighter in a strong era
Carter [Some strange results there] better than his record suggests
Pedroza Who may just have been as good or even better than Sanchez
Ortiz A great fighter by all accounts
Canto.The Ring had an All Time Fly Tourney, Canto won it!

 

Muhammad Had the talent but not the drive.
McCallum Never got the super fight he needed.
Curry A great fighter on his day ,but his prime was very short
Randall The Surgeon,definitely underated and overlooked nowadays.

 

Maxie Rosenbloom?
When was the last time you saw his name when great fighters were discussed?
He beat
Jim Braddock
Leroy Hyanes
Mickey Walker
Al Ettore
King Levinsky
Lou Nova
Al Gainer
Bob Godwin
John Henry Lewis
Tiger Jack Fox
Jimmy Slattery
Ted Kid Lewis
Leo Lomski
Pete Latzo
Johnny Wilson
Jamaica Kid
Frank Moody
AllenTown Joe Gans
Tiger Flowers
Dave Shade

 

Antonio Avelar is a flyweight that I'm surprised gets so little mention around here. One of the hardest punchers of all time at the lower weight classes, matched up with some of the biggest names there are at the weight for years... Gilberto Roman, Miguel Canto, Wilfredo Vasquez, and Miguel Lora... Won a world title, fought in Puerto Rico, Mexico, The United States, South Korea and Japan.

What's a fighter got to do to be remembered?

 

At lightweight and light welter
Jack kid berg