Obscure fighters that no one remembers.

Not exactly entirely forgotten by the really knowledgeable fans of the sport, but I'm pretty sure that the majority on Classic don't know who Eduardo Lausse was. Posters who know him that primarily post on the General forum could probably be counted on one hand, if at all. As far as your average Boxing fan goes, don't even humor the idea.

 

You can add Gustavo Ballas as well, who is another almost forgotten Argentinian boxer. I just made a thread about him not too long ago and it seems like not many people on Classic still talk about him enough.

 

The Houge brothers.

 

Luis Ibarra, Enrique Pinder, and Ernesto Marcel. All 3 champions from Panama that aren't mentioned enough. Although it doesn't help that they also have limited fight footages.

 

One guy is Donnie Nietes. I think we should talk way more about Marlon Starling too,

 

Don't expect them to, mate. Classic is mostly comprised of Heavyweight match ups, with 3 or 4 threads discussing fighters from lower divisions sprinkled in somewhere, and most of them are popular guys like Robinson, the Fab 4, Jones etc. @George Crowcroft made a very good thread a few months ago about Gerry Penalosa, and it only got responses from myself and 4 other posters. There are some incredibly knowledgeable posters here on classic, but don't expect your average poster to be some sort of Boxing history guru.

 

The recent threats about Carlos Ortiz reminded me of Joe "Old Bones" Brown who was a classy lightweight champion. He made 11 defences of his Undisputed title. No mean feat.

Also Ike Williams, Jimmy Carter, Bob Montgomery or Beau Jack were terrific champions too (especially Ike and Jimmy who might be in some top 10 or at least top 20 lightweight lists) who are never mentioned.

 

Hi Guys.
Bruno Arcari, in my time on the forum, I can't remember seeing his name once, he was a very good fighter, a long term champ, lost only 2 of 70 odd fights both by injury fairly early in his career, since the 70s a few champs, Cervantes, Arguello, Pryor, and Benitez, have surpassed him as number 1 in the division, but he still ranks pretty high imo, shame.
stay safe fellas.

 

Arcari is a good one. Keeping it with the italians, I think I´ve never heard anyone talking about Sandro Mazzinghi here too,

 

To be backhanded it’s almost like people forget James J Corbett was a fighter at all lol. in an era closer to the golden age than ours. I’d be interested to see folks spar with the gardening gloves back then and fight with there “ear muffs” on. Defensive responsibility then… well it produced the best of the best. Archie Moore and Burley learnt from a bare knuckle fighter, Blackburn taught Louis all he knew.

 

Ray "Windmill" White...a Lt Heavyweight who fought out of Ventura California from 1958 to 1974. He won the California Lt Heavy title in 1971...tall and lanky with a long reach...he was known for his famous "Behind The Back" punch...fought Mike Quarry. White appeared on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson...and the "Merv Griffin" Show. Hung up the gloves in 1974 with a record of 41-14-5. Saw him on TV in the early 1970's...he was fun to watch. He's still around...he's 85.

 

Maurice Harris. I've been watching quite a few of his fights on YouTube. The best 26-23-2 fighter that ever existed. BTW, has anyone here been watching The Champ and The Chump vids on YouTube? Jeremy Williams and a guy whose name escapes me have interviewed a lot of boxers from the last 20-30 years. I've watched a few with Michael Grant, Jameel McCline, and Maurice Harris. They're really good and informative.

 

The thing about this is, its contradictory: You say its about obscure fighters no one remembers, but you remember!