Your top 3 most underrated fighters

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  1. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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  2. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Not sure if McFarland is underrated as much as he is under appreciated and under discussed. But a well deserved mention
     
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  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    99.9% of those called "FloMay is a top 10 all time" types have never even heard of McFarland.
     
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  4. lloydturnip

    lloydturnip Well-Known Member Full Member

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  5. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Three of my favourites.

    My list:
    Midget Wolgast (Legend ATG who is almost never mentioned)
    Tommy Loughran (I've really gotten into him recently)
    Joe Brown (legendary lightweight)

    There's way more than 3 to mention.
     
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  6. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Great Post. Harada was a beast.
     
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  7. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Freddie Steele.
     
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  8. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Just polarizing I guess
     
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  9. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Outside of the forums, Ezzard probably is the most underrated actually, good call.
     
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  10. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    A lot of the names I read here may be overlooked by the general public, but then again the general public doesn't really talk about boxing anymore in any capacity. Napoles, Lamotta, etc. are legends here, and deservedly so. Don't really see them as underrated.
     
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  11. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  12. AwardedSteak863

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    Really good list. I like the Holmes shout out. He wasn't on the level of Starling and Kulambey but he could really fight.
     
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  13. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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  14. Smokin Bert

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    I was actually ringside when Holmes won the title from Quincy Taylor. It was early on the undercard of Tyson Bruno II, and there was almost nobody in the stands. They threw simultaneous hooks. Unfortunately for Taylor, Holmes' right hook landed before Taylor's right hook, and, BOOM! Taylor basically absorbed the force of both blows and went down hard. To Taylor's credit, he somehow got up. But, it was stopped shortly after that. The fight was pretty even up to that point.
     
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  15. zadfrak

    zadfrak Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    in recent times anyway, go with Erdei. Guy was really a top notch boxer.

    Maybe go with another universum guy at cruiser, JC Gomez next. He was a force at his division and had a ton of defenses. Problem was both of those guys were part of the who needs this guy type opponent. Third would be the road warrior, Brian Mitchell---toughest thing to do in the sport is to continually win in the other guy's backyard.
     
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