Most underrated old school boxers?

Hiroyuki Ebihara
Horacio Accavallo
Alberto Davilla
Ernesto Marcel
Kuniaki Shibata
Eduardo Lausse

 

Harold Weston jr
Hedgemon Lewis
Angel Espada
Kid Pambele
Adolf Pruitt
Cowboy Dale Brown
Teddy Yarosz
Harold the shadow Knight

 

I think Ezzard Charles in particular is well respected on here and the consensus is pretty much that he’s the best light heavy ever.
I think all the others on there get their due props apart from Wright.

 

Eddie Perkins
Antonio Cervantes
Santos Laciar
Baby Arizmendi
Mark Johnson
Antonio Esparragoza

In here I feel most of the top guys from the early 2000s are underrated, someone like Shane Mosley or Bernard Hopkins should be talked more in high regard.

 

Tommy Burns

Everyone else is allowed to be great during their era, even dudes who did not fight black men, but Tommy's not great despite his what 9 title defenses because of his era. It's weird to me. Jeffries, super great with Johnson in the wings. Tommy, not so great because Johnson's in the wings. ... JJ licked em both easy. Just saying the juxta is unfair.

 

Yes that’s fair comment.

 

Love the mention of Accavallo, Ioakeim.

An unheralded Flyweight must be in with a shout as most underrated and/or underappreciated boxer of all time.

 

Accavallo not being in the HoF is a genuine crime.

 

Burns is a criminally underrated fighter IMO.

So is Willie Ritchie, a great standup boxer/technician who could mix it up on the inside as well. Here he is masterfully picking apart a very good contender in Joe Rivers (the fighter who was famously robbed in the "Double KO" fight vs. Wolgast).

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Any great fighter who fought when there was the color line has an asterisk next to his name. This applies to black fighters too. I mean, maybe Dempsey would have flattened Wills in 2 rounds. I get that it was a different time, and I really hate putting the asterisk on the black fighters who would have been more than happy to fight any white challengers, but it's still got to be there.

 

Hi Buddy.
Excellent call on Pruitt, a very gifted box/puncher, much overlooked.
stay safe, chat soon.

 

Jeff Clark

 

Harold Johnson