Most under rated great in each weight class

[janitor]

To kick off-

Heavyweight...Harry Wills

Light Heavyweight...Jack Dillon

Midleweight...Jeff Clark

Welterweight...Mysterious Billy Smith

Lightweight...Dave Holly

Featherweight...Young Griffo

Bantemweight...Jimmy Walsh

Flyweight...Newsboy Brown

[Mendoza]

To kick off-

Heavyweight...Harry Wills

Light Heavyweight...Jack Dillon

Midleweight...Jeff Clark

Welterweight...Mysterious Billy Smith

Lightweight...Dave Holly

Featherweight...Young Griffo

Bantemweight...Jimmy Walsh

Flyweight...Newsboy Brown

Excellent choices!

[Senya13]

Welterweight...Mysterious Billy Smith
Is this a rating of "most underrated dirtiest fighters" to include him here?

[TBooze]

To kick off-

Heavyweight...Harry Wills

Light Heavyweight...Jack Dillon

Midleweight...Jeff Clark

Welterweight...Mysterious Billy Smith

Lightweight...Dave Holly

Featherweight...Young Griffo

Bantemweight...Jimmy Walsh

Flyweight...Newsboy Brown

:nono Janitor abusing the 'G' word tut, tut...

They were all excellent, Brilliant fighters, but not all were great IMO

My list (of excellent fighters) would be

Heavyweight: Joe Jeanette

Light Heavyweight: Charles Williams

Middleweight: Rodrigo Valdez

Welterweight: Kid Gavlian

Lightweight: Ad Walgast

Featherweight: Abe Attell

Bantamweight: Manuel Ortiz

Flyweight: Salvatore Burruni

[young griffo]

Heavyweight-Peter Jackson

Lt Heavyweight-Lloyd Marshall

Middleweight-Kid McCoy

Welterweight-Marlon Starling

Lightweight-George "Kid" Lavigne

Featherweight-Jose Legra

Bantamweight-Jeff Chandler

Flyweight-Pone Kingpetch

[JohnThomas1]

Sticking mostly to my era

Heavyweight ----------- Joe Frazier
Light Heavyweight ---- Dwight Braxton
Middleweight ---------- Jake LaMotta
Junior Middleweight -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Welterweight ---------- Kid Gavilan
Junior Welterweight -- Wilfred Benitez
Lightweight ------------ Alexis Arguello
Junior Lightweight ---- Azumah Nelson
Featherweight --------- Jeff Fenech
Junior Featherweight - Jeff Fenech
Bantamweight --------- Jeff Chandler/Lupe Pintor

[young griffo]

Sticking mostly to my era

Heavyweight ----------- Joe Frazier
Light Heavyweight ---- Dwight Braxton
Middleweight ---------- Jake LaMotta
Junior Middleweight -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Welterweight ---------- Kid Gavilan
Junior Welterweight -- Wilfred Benitez
Lightweight ------------ Alexis Arguello
Junior Lightweight ---- Azumah Nelson
Featherweight --------- Jeff Fenech
Junior Featherweight - Jeff Fenech
Bantamweight --------- Jeff Chandler/Lupe Pintor
I had Fenech down for Feather but I don't think he did enough to really did enough there to be considered "great".
That said I think if he'd stayed put at Feather he could've established a lasting legacy there,as he looked awesome the fights he had at Feather especially the Callejas fight which was Jeff's peak.
Fenech without the layoff would've whipped guy's like Paez,Dorsey,La Porte or even Grove imo,and I'm hard-pressed to come up with a guy to beat him at 126 at that time.

[JohnThomas1]

I had Fenech down for Feather but I don't think he did enough to really did enough there to be considered "great".
That said I think if he'd stayed put at Feather he could've established a lasting legacy there,as he looked awesome the fights he had at Feather especially the Callejas fight which was Jeff's peak.
Fenech without the layoff would've whipped guy's like Paez,Dorsey,La Porte or even Grove imo,and I'm hard-pressed to come up with a guy to beat him at 126 at that time.

Fair calls. I am going the angle of Jeff was a great fighter overall instead of singling out particular divisions. I am also looking more at head to head with the underrated criteria. SRL and Arguello barely touched down in the divisions i rate them in here either. I have to be honest, i think Fenech would give all the greats heart attacks at 126, beating many of them. He was like a slightly less skilled Duran, his intensity, strength and determination was unmatched. I'd call it outright ferocity really.

[young griffo]

Fair calls. I am going the angle of Jeff was a great fighter overall instead of singling out particular divisions. I am also looking more at head to head with the underrated criteria. SRL and Arguello barely touched down in the divisions i rate them in here either. I have to be honest, i think Fenech would give all the greats heart attacks at 126, beating many of them. He was like a slightly less skilled Duran, his intensity, strength and determination was unmatched. I'd call it outright ferocity really.
Yep spot on about Fenech.
Fenech was far and away the most fierce fighter I've seen.Even Duran to me looked like he was still in control in the ring whereas Fenech looked to me like he just wanted to kill,and the minute break between rounds was a pain in the arse for him.
I just wish he'd stayed at 126 as he didn't have the body (or hands) to campaign successfully at the higher weights.Once they began to match his strength and he didn't have the power to keep them honest anymore,that's when the rot set in.
A little bit off topic but do you remember Jeff's fight with Daniel Zaragoza John?
I remember it as a very one sided beating and I'm wondering if that's how it went.It was a very good underrated win for Fenech anyway.

[JohnThomas1]

Yep spot on about Fenech.
Fenech was far and away the most fierce fighter I've seen.Even Duran to me looked like he was still in control in the ring whereas Fenech looked to me like he just wanted to kill,and the minute break between rounds was a pain in the arse for him.
I just wish he'd stayed at 126 as he didn't have the body (or hands) to campaign successfully at the higher weights.Once they began to match his strength and he didn't have the power to keep them honest anymore,that's when the rot set in.
A little bit off topic but do you remember Jeff's fight with Daniel Zaragoza John?
I remember it as a very one sided beating and I'm wondering if that's how it went.It was a very good underrated win for Fenech anyway.

Fenech was actually more ferocious and less controlled than Duran for sure. My fading memory of the Zaragoza fight was Jeff was too good and won handily.

[Mantequilla]

Zaragoza was competitive for the first few rounds then dominated.