the most under rated Light Heavyweight of all time ?

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  • RFPROBOX
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    #21
    Originally posted by Scott9945
    EMM had a wicked left hook to the body. His big mistake was moving up to heavyweight (unsuccessfully) and then defending against Spinks way too soon afterwards. He had to srop 26 lbs in just two months.
    he was also very lazy and not very smart. he let 3rd rate fightrers like James scott beat him.

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    • TBear
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      #22
      The thing is with Moorer is there was three other champions at the time. It is not determined if he was even the best at his weight at the time. He did not fight especially good light heavys when he was wbo champ either.

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      • Boxing Bob
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        #23
        He is given some credit, but for his skills and dominance, I think Bob Foster is verrrrry underrated as a light heavy

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        • madmadworld
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          #24
          my top ten LHW

          kinda new here was testing.


          boxing rec top ten
          some of these guys never won or fought for the title(boxing rec shows)
          1 Archie Moore
          2 Ezzard Charles
          3 Jimmy Bivins
          4 Maxie Rosenbloom
          5 Billy Conn not even a LHW
          6 Gene Tunney
          7 Tommy Loughran
          8 Joey Maxim most fights over 175
          9 Roy Jones Jr
          10 John Henry Lewis

          my top ten LHW of all time.
          no order why ?
          if you have top tens any of them could beat the others on any night imho.

          Roy Jones Jr
          Michael Moorer
          Jimmy Bivins
          Archie Moore
          Gene Tunney
          Maxie Rosenbloom
          Harold Johnson
          Michael Spinks
          Bob Foster
          Ezzard Charles ?

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          • StarshipTrooper
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            #25
            Originally posted by madmadworld
            5 Billy Conn not even a LHW
            WTF????? The man was the Light-Heavyweight champion from 1939 to 1940 and fought primarily over 160 from 1937 on and only had 10 fights at Heavyweight. WTF?????

            Poet

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            • Wild Blue Yonda
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              #26
              It will be news to historians and fans alike that Billy Conn was not a LHW.

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              • madmadworld
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                #27
                no quality wins

                Originally posted by poet682006
                WTF????? The man was the Light-Heavyweight champion from 1939 to 1940 and fought primarily over 160 from 1937 on and only had 10 fights at Heavyweight. WTF?????

                Poet
                77 fights 11 at LWH 58 lower 8 higher
                not making this up
                plus he was white and before desegregation and could have fought Jimmy Bivins........others why not ? and no quality wins

                that's 2 whole years same as Michael Moorer 22 at LWH all ko'd. and he called out Virgil Hill & Charles Williams no takers for 2 years.
                he and they know what would have happened to them.

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                • madmadworld
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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Wild Blue Yonda
                  It will be news to historians and fans alike that Billy Conn was not a LHW.
                  nothing ******er than a talking head right a head of internet posters LOL

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                  • Wild Blue Yonda
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                    #29
                    '******er,' is now a word.

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                    • IronDanHamza
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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Wild Blue Yonda
                      '******er,' is now a word.
                      , Nothing better than calling someone out for saying '******er' when they are aiming to call you ******.

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