Your top 3 most underrated fighters

Public/Casually:

1. Larry Holmes
2. Mikey Garcia
3. Joe Louis

This forum:

1. Max Baer
2. John L Sullivan
3. Sugar Ray Leonard

 

Mike McCallum is one he would have pushed any of the fab four all the way or maybe beaten them but the only one people seem to pick him against is Duran because of his losses at light middle and 160, some say he would have beat Hearns but mostly people go on about hiim being outboxed by Curry until that hook landed and him losing the first fight to Kalambay and the split decision win over the awkward highly mobile Graham, his KO over Jackson has even been played down. GGG is underrated I feel he was one of the best middleweights in history and two of hios best opponents are underrated too meaning his resume is underated, he`s given no credit for his two performances v Canelo who is also underrated and no credit for beaten Jacobs who is the third guy on my list unless he loses to Canelo and I bet if Canelo beats him that will be an underrated win also.

 

Stanley Ketchel
Jack Johnson
Bob Fitzsimmons

 

I much more agree with your public three.

 

Honestly i think you can make an argument for any pre 1920s fighter

 

1. Pedroza RIP Campeon
2. Alan Minter. A terrific fighter defined by 2 late career losses
3. Saad Muhammad. Would have knocked out Braxton & Spinks in his prime.

 

1. Ezzard Charles
2. Jose Napoles
3. Jake LaMotta

 

There's loads of great boxers that are nearly forgotten, even here, mostly lower weight guys.

 

Its BECAUSE so many people both underrate and overrate Marciano and Holmes that i didnt list either (for this forum). In public regard i feel both are underrated, on this forum id say Marciano is slightly underrated, then again it could be argued that i simply overrate him. Still dunno how people rank him below anybody not named "Louis" or "Ali" at heavyweight. Man owns many records and had a terrific dominance streak over better competition than what many think

I didnt really like your explanation because i feel that Marciano wins plenty of H2H matchups for the majority of users, usually its the same Seamus/GPC/KoolKevin that drop in and say "nah too small" with Pat M liking their comments.

 

I've literally heard him referred to as "chinny charles" by someone on this forum

 

He definitely fought for too long, more like Jones than Holyfeild tho, coz up until Holyfeild's retirement he fought decent opposition, Jones and Charles just lost to people they shouldn't have ever lost to. Im not sure if there's a real reason for it, or if he just didn't want to hang them up