What's your favorite boxer most underrated win and why?

Morales vs Hernandez @ 130

Hernandez was a solid 130 lb champ, a man that gave a peak Mayweather a hard time, Morales put on a performance were he did everything, he outboxed him from the outside & stood toe to toe with him as well, Erik must have won at least 9 rds, its rarely mentioned when speaking of Morales but I think it was his best overall display at 130 lbs alongside the 1st Pac fight.

 

Willie "The Worm" Monroe over Marvelous Marvin Hagler- Willie The Worm remains an after thought to many who are not affiliated with the Philly scene. But at his best was a silky smooth boxer with a great heart. In beating hagler The Worm put on an electrifying performance and was one of the first live fights I attended. The Worm was in his prime and Hagler was certainly entering his. I have heard some argue that the Worm won a hometown decision, or that Hagler was not at his high level of form just yet. I believe both are incorrect! The Worm put on a masterful display of cunning and aggresiveness. Hagler became kind of an adopted Philadelphian through some of his wars here, and because of the respect I have for him find this victory an amazing and largely forgotten one!!!

 

Nigel Benn vs Robbie Sims

Only guy to stop him and Sims fought some heavy hitters. Benn actually fought a good patient fight in that one for once as well.

 

To answer the question, I would say Frazier's knockout of the veteran Doug Jones in February, 1967. Though I've never seen this fight on film, Sports Illustrated did a story on the fight and described the knockout as a devastating left hook. Jones still had something left in the tank in early '67 and had given Ali a helluva fight some years earlier.

 

Good stuff. I'd always been guilty myself of assuming Hagler's being too green cost him the fight although I'd never seen it, so it's always good to hear about someone who was there when it happened.

 

Gerald over benn. fight should of been over in one round or all that rabbit punching benn did and that ref didn't care..never would of happened in say vegas,..

 

I think Dick Tiger's win over Nino Benvenuti is criminally underrated in the grand scheme of things. A faded, 40-year old ex-champ completely schooling the reigning middleweight champ in a huge upset. It was essentially the Hopkins-Pavlik of its day, and should've retained its significance given that Benvenuti is a HOFer; but instead its been virtually forgotten today.

I think Henry Armstrong's first major title win over Petey Sarron often gets overlooked among all his other achievements. Sarron may not exactly be a legend, but he was a solid champion who had won his title by decisively beating a HOFer, and this was the only time he was ever stopped in his 150 or so fight career. Armstrong reportedly also had a very impressive title defense against Pedro Montanez, who had a fine record and had reportedly never been down before in about 100 fights (and the only other stoppage loss of his career was on cuts).

 

Holyfield - Moorer II. The 5 KD's were icing on the cake for this unification bout

 

Nice. How true is it that Hagler's eyes were both swollen and blood streamed from his nose?

 

Sorry, while parts of this fight remain ingrained in my memory I do not recall the swollenness or the blood? That does not mean that there was not any, I just don't remember seeing that? I am under the understanding that while hagler lambasted the judges about his decision loss to Boogaloo that he never questioned this one, and reportedly admitted that the judges got this one right. Unfortunately I have been trying to track down a copy of this fight for several years and have not been able to locate one...there were cameras there so I assume that a copy must exist???

I know that briscoe cut hagler early? don't know if that is what you are refering to?

I checked out Philly boxing history and couldn't come up with a cut..here is there report:

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Philly Boxing History

MARCH 9, 1976

ANOTHER TOUGH VISIT FOR HAGLER

Willie 'The Worm' Monroe scored the biggest win of his career on this day in 1976. The victory was an emphatic and clear-cut, 10-round decision over Marvelous Marvin Hagler at the Spectrum before just 3,459 die hard fans who braved a snow storm to watch the fight.

Hagler, then a very hot prospect, made his Philly debut just two months prior when he lost a close decision to Bobby 'Boogaloo' Watts at the same venue. Infuriated by that loss, Hagler jumped at the chance to replace Vinnie Curto who pulled out of his fight with Monroe. However, this bout was far different than the one with Watts, as Monroe administered a pretty good beating. To this day, the loss to Monroe is the only one Hagler ever admits to. But Hagler's business wasn't finished in Philadelphia. Marv returned in September to score a TKO win over Cyclone Hart, and then in 1978 beat Bennie Briscoe over 10 rounds. Monroe & Hagler faced off two more times with Hagler winning both bouts by TKO.

 

The ref was pretty poor but you cant deny Benn did awesomely to come back.

 

Stanley Ketchel's win over Hugo Kelly. Prior to this fight Kelly was only stopped once very early in his career. He had wins over Mike Schrek, Mike Donovan, Jack O' Brien and he'd gone 30 rounds with Tommy Burns. Ketchel blasted him out in the beginning of the third round. He went on to beat Frank Klaus and it took ATG LHW puncher Jack Dillon three rounds himself to KO Kelly in his last fight.

Billy Miske's win over Jack Renault is also impressive to me. Renault was a very good and very durable heavyweight contender and Miske was the only one to stop him up until Renault met Young Stribling at the end of his career.