The most UNDERRATED PBA bowlers PART 3

Throughout the history of the PBA we've seen countless players who never seem to get the respect on their name that they deserve. So often we remember the big names and the big moments but forget about the other bowlers who quietly went about making their mark on the game. These type of players are normally criminally underrated and in this video we're going to be looking at some of the most underrated bowlers in PBA history. This is the third part of this video series so if you haven't watched the first two parts then you can do so by heading to my channel. In today's video we have five more underrated bowlers to look at and we will start with number one Jason Couch. This guy's no slouch either this guy can really bring it. Only lefty in the final four of our TOC great start of the pocket for Jason Couch. Strike percentage and usually a pretty big average to go along with that. Back to the lefty in the pocket for Couch. Jason Couch has a very high backswing very steep Robert Smith's backswing not quite as high. Only the one open we saw in his run here. Market Square Arena Indianapolis Indiana over Rich Wolfe. He knows about success in an arena setting and that's big success 60 feet of it. To me Jason Couch is seriously underrated as I think people forget just how good he was in his prime. He won 16 tour titles but his dominance in particular was during the late 90s to early 2000s. Arguably his best achievement of his career came during this period when he won the tournament of champions three times in a row. A feat that has still not been matched to this day. The closest anyone came to equaling this was Jason Bermonte who lost in the title match in 2013 and then won back-to-back TOC titles in 2014 and 2015. Couch ended up having a pretty long career with his last title coming in number two Patrick Allen in Reno Nevada earned his 11th PBA tour title opens up with back-to-back jacks yeah Hoss opens up with the turkey top seed today you gotta be on an even keel. During the 2000s Patrick Allen seemed to be making shows every week and he was such a difficult opponent to beat on TV. He had shall we say a rather expressive manner on TV and I think this left some fans feeling like he was a little bit arrogant and they didn't really appreciate some of his outbursts on TV. I think this might be partly why Allen is underrated as clearly some fans didn't really take to Allen's personality but his bowling spoke for itself and he won 13 titles in an eight-year period which included two majors. He won three titles in 2009, three titles in 2007 and four titles in 2005 the year he captured player of the year. This shows just how dominant he was for multiple seasons during his prime. Number three John Matta the strike he tripped it out the first time went right back to the same hit the second time leaves the ten pin this time now nice free swing right in time hits the next the last step the ball at the peak of the backswing there's the pivot step into the nice long slide nice and smooth John Matta had a relatively short PBA career which is why I think he does get forgotten about sometimes and is therefore underrated but make no mistake Matta was an excellent PBA bowler and while he only bowled on the PBA during the 90s he managed to win eight titles in this period. He also had a very smooth style and it would have been very interesting to see how many more titles he could have won if he had stayed on the tour during the 2000s. Number four Bob Learne jr the match in regulation I think Bob Learne jr is probably best remembered for his absolutely mind-blowing performance at the 1996 flagship open. During this telecast he set the all-time PBA record for total pins He bowled games of 300 270 280 and 279 for a total of 1129 and an average of 282. This shattered the previous PBA record of 1070 pins set in 1995 by David Ozio but aside from this insane performance Learne had a very solid career. He won five titles including the 1999 US Open. He also won three PBA 50 titles and has won 25 PBA regional titles too. On top of this he is known as Mr 300 having bowled over 100 300 games in PBA and USBC sanctioned competition. Number five Danny Wiseman something he'd never done before his tournament starts now in the final and in style just outside second air about the eighth board at the break point that's about the 40 42 foot line or mark down the lane scheduled to get this far so many frames to make good quality shots so dedicated to improving his game and it's all paid off working with personal trainer Sam Donna back in Baltimore. Our final entry on this list is Danny Wiseman a 12-time titlist who is incredibly underrated. He might not have had the flashiest style but it was very consistent and this allowed himself to carve out a very successful career for a number of years. The 90s and early 2000s were definitely his most successful and this success peaked in 2004 when he finally captured his first major the Masters. After this his final title would come in 2008 at a doubles event where he was partnered with Mike Fagan and there we have it those were five very underrated PBA bowlers but of course you might feel there are some other bowlers that should have made this list as I mentioned earlier I have made two previous parts to this video so make sure to check those out and if you have any suggestions for players that you'd like me to include in a part four then just let me know in the comments section below and don't forget if you have enjoyed what you've seen today please consider clicking the subscribe button below that's going to do it from for today and as always thank you bowling fans and see you all next time