An Homage to The Best Boxers That Nobody Knew

[DavilaJones]

Sam Langford also comes to mind, you have to be really good for even the Jack Johnson to duck you.

[Master]

Herol Graham fought Brewer in his last ever fight and was 106 years old. Bomber had put on a good series of comeback wins against an undefeated Canadian and Vinny Pazienza before he fought Brewer. In that fight Graham fought away from home, knocked down Charles, who injured his ankle as he went down. Brewer sucked it up and stopped Graham on the ropes. A younger version of Graham would have won the fight easily.

[DavilaJones]

When you say 106 years old I'm hoping you mean figuratively....For his sake

[Master]

When you say 106 years old I'm hoping you mean figuratively....For his sake

Yes I was.

[ruthless rocco]

there was this one guy... i'd tell you about him but you'd've never heard of him.

[IamInuit]

Sam Langford also comes to mind, you have to be really good for even the Jack Johnson to duck you.

Like the Burley and Langford picks. Both would be on my top ten atg list.
Others rarely mentioned would include,

Lloyd Marshall
Jack Chase
Holman Williams
Eddie Booker
Elmer Ray
Herbert Lewis
Aaron Wade

All stable mates of Burley and robbed just as he was.

George Dixon. First black champion ever who may have had 600 fights or more.
Even guys like Locche and Jofre.
George Benton.
Billy Miske
Jimmy Barry
Harry Wills
Mike Gibbons
Jimmy Bivins

[DavilaJones]

Sam Langford also comes to mind, you have to be really good for even the Jack Johnson to duck you.

Like the Burley and Langford picks. Both would be on my top ten atg list.
Others rarely mentioned would include,

Lloyd Marshall
Jack Chase
Holman Williams
Eddie Booker
Elmer Ray
Herbert Lewis
Aaron Wade

All stable mates of Burley and robbed just as he was.

George Dixon. First black champion ever who may have had 600 fights or more.
Even guys like Locche and Jofre.
George Benton.
Billy Miske
Jimmy Barry
Harry Wills
Mike Gibbons
Jimmy Bivins

I like this list of yours. Thank you. I'll look them up and see if I can find any good tapes on them.

[Master]

Sam Langford also comes to mind, you have to be really good for even the Jack Johnson to duck you.

Like the Burley and Langford picks. Both would be on my top ten atg list.
Others rarely mentioned would include,

Lloyd Marshall
Jack Chase
Holman Williams
Eddie Booker
Elmer Ray
Herbert Lewis
Aaron Wade

All stable mates of Burley and robbed just as he was.

George Dixon. First black champion ever who may have had 600 fights or more.
Even guys like Locche and Jofre.
George Benton.
Billy Miske
Jimmy Barry
Harry Wills
Mike Gibbons
Jimmy Bivins

I like this list of yours. Thank you. I'll look them up and see if I can find any good tapes on them.

Nice list did not know about most of this.

[greynotsoold]

Joe Simonich, from right here in Butte, Montana. He fought Dave Shade, Pinky Mitchell, Willie Ritchie, Joe Dundee, Mickey Walker, Pete Latzo, Tommy Freeman, and Sgt. Al Baker. Boxrec lists him at 31-30, but he actually had close to 200 fights. At one point he was called the "Uncrowned Welterweight Champ" because of a victory over Latzo in a non-title bout. He was stopped once in his career, his last fight against the Alabama Kid, when he was 40, in 1935.

[DavilaJones]

Oh wow there's a lot more great unknowns than I though there would be. Good thing today is Friday I'll have the weekend to look over these guys and see what I find, I'll make a fight album of sorts if I can and post it up.