Top 5 Latin fighters of all time

No doubt about it!

 

Yeah, I'm really running down on Monzon.... by saying he's possibly the 2nd greatest Latin fighter ever...

I ranked Jofre ahead of him on my list, but Monzon could be ranked ahead of Jofre.

Jofre's legacy is hurt because he lost twice to Fighting Harada, but truthfully Jofre was extremely weight drained by time he fought Harada. AND... Jofre arguably won both fights.

But Jofre, unlike Monzon, moved up, and he beat the excellent Jose Legra to win the title at featherweight. Jofre was a SHELL of his prime self when he beat Legra, which made the win highly impressive.

BTW - the Jofre-Harada fights have to be two of the most skilled wars ever. Two MASTERFUL techicians... not a wasted move between the two.

 

No one was a bigger fan of Duran than I was when he was lightweight champion. I used to record his fights on audio cassette long before VHS came out and I used to think of him in the ring when I won the Houston JO's in 1977 he had just beaten Edwin Viruet the second time and I met Duran before the third Leonard fight when he was training at the Tropicana. Again: I was there and loved the guy as lightweight champion. His greatest fight was the rubber match KO of DeJesus, not the Leonard 1 fight.

 

Posting an unnecessary gruesome non-boxing related death photo and then ragging on the dead fighter is about as low as an individual can get online.

 

I've long said that DeJesus III was the best Duran performance.

A sleeper Duran performance is his destruction of Guts Ishimatsu.

The same Guts who would take apart Rodolfo Gonzalez one fight later.

 

He always said his toughest fight was Hector Thompson. He was in so much pain he teared up in the corner between rounds.

 

To give Monzon credit, I always do enjoy watching the first Griffith fight. Monzon was a master at controlling distance, and his ring IQ was extremely high.

If you asked me 10 years ago who wins between Monzon and Hagler, I'd have said Hagler, but my opinion has since changed.

I think Monzon would have beaten Hagler.

 

Rumour has it Jofre ducked out of a fight with a guy called Pimentel. Deliberately didn't make weight. Any truth?

 

I've never heard that rumor - so I can't confirm its validity either way. It might be true, but this is just the first time I've heard it. What IS true is that Jofre struggled to make 118 - it sucks for him that there was no 122-pound division around in the 60s. He needed superbantam.

Pimentel was a devastating puncher, but I have a difficult time believing Jofre would be afraid of him considering he twice fought and beat Jose Medel, an even MORE devastating puncher. Medel beat Pimentel.

The first Jofre-Medel fight is on YouTube, btw. It was a brutal war, yet at the same time showcases Jofre's immense offensive skillset.

 

Here's the Jofre-Medel fight, Irish.

If you don't mind the B&W quality, it's a fight well-worth watching.

 

Judging by some of the out-of-context comments you have made on his defeats, I'd have guessed you watched all of his fights on audio cassette.

 

The best way to both enjoy and analyze a fight is using reel to reel.

 

He probably used mono stuff like that for watching black and white fights. I'd like to think he watched in stereo for fights from the seventies onwards. Most likely analysed Duran's losses on something like this:

 

That's for rich elitists.

In a perfect world all fights could be judged via cave drawings.

 

I can just picture Double drawing an awesome cave drawing of Chavez landing a left hook on Whitaker to show that the draw was justified.

 

This would also confirm Canelo's place in the Latin top-10. He was THE DRAW

 

He sure he got a bullshit DRAW in Sept. 2017

 

Because of that i can't put him in my top 20 P4P today.

 

Teofimo Lopez just cracked my top 5 for ethering haney

 

Ethering?

 

Double, in 2001, the Hip Hop GOAT Nasir Jones released a diss track to one Shawn "Joe Camel" Carter entitled "Ether."

The track completely owned Mr. Carter, and birthed the hip hop term "ethered" whenever someone gets badly owned.

 

I don't move in hip hop circles. So i guess that explains why i am unfamiliar with a non-word used by certain artists and their wannabes.

 

Pwned?

 

A large number of Latin fighters are from Spanish speaking countries.

 

putting to sleep

What's with the email belt?

 

where is rigondeaux on you guys lists?!

 

As I said, is he Latin, is he Black, is he Cuban etc.

Sometimes things would have been a lot better if Columbus and his shitty boats just stayed at home.

 

I can't take anyone's list seriously unless you have Melchor Cob Castro in the top three.