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My vote....Aaron Pryor
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aaron was an enigma more then anything else. over time, instead of being underrated - he has become overrated. -
not an enigma....no secret what stopped him, a raging cocaine addiction...without that he would have been invincible for 3 or 4 years...leonard was afraid to fight him and Hearns was destroyed by him as a gold gloverComment
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Pryor is slightly underrated, however, that is only by the general public. True boxing fans know how good he was, therefore not being underrated. I think someone like Eder Jofre is the most underrated, as most boxing fans (I do generalise greatly here) don't even know who he was, let alone the public.Comment
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aaron pryor beat tommy hearns when tommy was a 17 year old - whoopty doo!Comment
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Nicky Furlano also beat Hearns as an amateur. Tommy had a dismal KO record then. It wasn't until he turned pro that he became a big KO hitter.Originally posted by AztecaComment
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Eder Jofre.
Underrated might be the wrong word to describe him, since everyone who saw him realized how special and great he was; unknown may be a more fitting word. Whenever discussing the greatest fighters of all-time, his name is rarely brought up--if at all. It's a damn shame. Eder Jofre, the greatest bantamweight to ever live, has been described as the 118 pound version of Ray Robinson. And that's no hyperbole. He was that good.Comment
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exactly. i read that when manny started training hearns in the pro's he added alot of leverage and torque to his punching.Comment
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underappreciated would be the best choice of words for pryor.Comment
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Len Harvey for sure,
but just before and along with Harvey and just after him are 3 more and ALL of them better than Turpin!
Len Johnson
JOCK MCAVOY
BERT GILROY
honorable mention to Arthur 'Ginger' Sadd and Jack 'Cast-Iron' Casey.Comment
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