Top 15 most underrated heavyweights 1930- 1942 WW II

Lee Ramage, Gunnar Barlund?

 

walter Nuesel, Paulino uzcuncdun, alberto lovell, and Tommy Farr?

 

All quite highly rated.

 

I think Charley Retzlaff might deserve a mention. Had a better ko record than any of these including some top men like Art Lasky twice. He also ko'd Ettore.

53 ko's in 76 fight for close to 70%--a great percentage for the era.

 

what about Fred Lenhart, or was he L-HW, think he was HW though, very good fighter by all accounts!

 

A agree, though he was feared at the time.

 

Is that list by quality of fighter or by how little recognition the fighter gets today? Because if it's quality of fighter the top spot should belong to Earnie Schaaf. He has a tremendous resume and is sadly remembered today more about the controversy in the ring of whether Primo Carnera's Jab killed him or The KO loss to Baer a couple of fights before had damaged him already. When in actuality what really killed him was stepping into the ring while his brain was still swollen from a recent bout with Influenza.

 

Leroy Haynes was one tough looking man.

 

Yes Haynes certaintly looked the part. He has some solid wins on his resume as well. He just became shop worn by looks of his record becoming a trial horse down the stretch. Nathan Mann long had mob connections many of his early wins may have been inside jobs. Tiger Jack Fox was great but fought mostly as a LHV. Bob Pastor might be the best Jewish Heavyweight ever, considering your stance of whether or not Baer was actually Jewish. Good list of a lot of long ago forgotten fighters.

 

Lem Franklin (along with Curtis Sheppard) was probably the hardest hitting HW of the 1940s. He was like the Cleveland Williams of his day.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=39780605

 

Tommy Gomez?

N B WW2 Began in 1939. Not for the US for whom it possibly may never have begun if they had not been attacked on Dec 7th 1941.
["A date that will live in infamy"].Two years later.

 

Godoy, surely?
Maybe Poreda?
Great work BTW.