I wouldn't say he was underrated, pretty much everyone knows he's important to the Redboy strain.
What it is would be yet another example about how "POR" and "ROM" don't tell the whole story. Also, some dogs produce better when linebred upon than they do as individual stud dogs. My Truman dog threw mostly curs in the 2 breedings I did with him, but when his offspring were bred together (so I doubled-up on Truman) I got all-game (or nearly-all-game) litters.
Sometimes a particular stud dog needs something built around him to really shine as a producer.
Jack
He's seldom up there, in this day and age, because so many people think producer equates to number of champions produced, which is just complete bullshit. A dog's production record is built around the entire picture, not just a few dogs here and there throughout it's life. Bingo has been up there as an important dog in the breed for decades with people that actually care about a dog's actual production. Too much emphasis is put on the ROM list which is simply a record of champions produced. It's not an actual list built around production.
Bingo was one of the most important dogs of the last 30 years, and there simply is no denying that no matter what.
If anyone's looking for chinaman stuff why not get it from Mr Romeo the actual owner of chinaman
Plus he has reasons to be careful Mr garner he had a lot of heat on his area plus he already was recorded once I doubt he wants to be in a national show again Luke he was many years ago