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

Duran over Villa...Emiliano was an excellent fighter. A former Olympian, he was bigger and very classy. Roberto mugged him after Villa was coming off a commendable performance against a newly crowned Benitez.

People tend to forget how much of the 140 division Roberto cleaned out in the fights between his lightweight defenses.

 

Marciano v Walcott II I guess

 

Can't say any of Ike Williams' wins are underrated. A few overlooked, maybe, but that always happens with the older fighters who have too many good wins to count.

 

Ill give a shout to Ike's stoppage win over Freddie Dawson.

Freddie was an excellent fighter and has a great record...Ike being the main offender when it came to his losses and only one of two men to stop Freddie in over 100+ bouts.

Freddie came to Australia and cleaned the place out on way to beating one of our greatest in Vic Patrick. Came back and took care of a few more I believe..that along with many, many excellent wins in his homeland and his reported highly competitive battles with Ike after Williams had already knocked him out.

Pretty astonishing that Ike did this all things considered.

 

Yeah, that's a good one.

 

Holyfield vs Bowe II.... Perhaps the smartest fight that Holy has ever fought.

 

Hagler over Sibson - Sibson was a very underrated fighter and one of Haglers best defences

Duran over Marcel - At just over Featherweight a young Duran beat up the decent Marcel

Pep vs Famechon - a comebacking Pep outclassed the european champ

 

Tyson against Ruddock. Ruddock was on a tear from 86-91, going 16-0 with 15 of them ending inside the distance. Out of those 16, 3 were former titlists in Mike Weaver, Michael Dokes, and Bonecrusher Smith. Razor's smash had ATG power.

Ruddock was viewed very, very highly and they beat the tar out of each other in both meetings. It should be noted that most thought Ruddock was the top guy even after Tyson beat him twice (after Tyson was sent to prison). Very good win and one that gets overlooked.

 

Terry Norris' 8th round knockout of Vincent Pettway. Pettway had just recently KTFO Norris conqueror and former victim Simon Brown in a devastating way. Had some serious pop, did Vincent Pettway. Terry just completely dominated him, knocking him down twice before he set up one of the best body shot knockouts of all time in the 8th.

Not bad for a guy with a supposed glass chin, eh?

 

Hooligan Harry Greb vs Allentown Joe Gans 10 round ass whipping!!
His last GREAT fight.

.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P{padding:0px;}.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} By this time the Dutchman was so freekin old, blind, years past his incredible prime, fighting with his head tilted sideways so he could see his opponent, vs an excellent fighter good enough to hold Jack Delaney to a draw in the reports of the 3 Wilkes Barre papers at ringside.

The public wasn't aware he could no longer make 160 and fight at all so in his next battle vs Flowers he was a mere shadow.

[SIZE=-1]Jun 15 1926 Harry Greb 165lb vs Allentown Joe Gans Wilkes-Barre, Pa W 10[/SIZE]

 

Good one!

I nominate Mike defeating Tony Tucker, it was a helluva tough fight that I just watched a week ago on YouTube, Tucker actually thought he won, it was a tough, tough fight for both guys and I feel it's very underrated.

 

Arguello over Boza edwards is often overlooked

Duran vs Palomino is another people always Duran looked awesome etc.. in it but people forget how good Palomino was

 

How clever was Teddy Yarosz as a boxer? I"'ll tell you how clever," Ray Arcel answered. He was that clever I thought he beat Billy Conn three times, not once as the books say and to me Billy Conn was the greatest light heavy of all time and rates right up there with the best fighters in history.


Al Abrams .
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive - Jul 3, 1974