Ode to Pipino Cuevas

I agree; Cuevas is getting serious short-shrift here. He wasn't the greatest fighter ever, but he was one of the very best punchers you'd ever see. The rest is just hair-splitting stuff. No one's trying to compare him to Ray Robinson here.

 

Pipino was a huge puncher. God-given natural puncher. Of course I give him props.

 

Much props to Pipino, dude's power was flat out scary.

How would you see the 76-80 version of him in today's Welterweight division??

 

It would have been nice to see Cuevas in a few puncher vs puncher fights, the potential for great multiple knockdowns on both sides shootouts would have been high.Nearly all of the better fighters he defended against were patient cuties without notable power.

Obviously not counting Hearns who was just a significantly better overall talent.

 

Cuevas was a beast. A wunderkind. He was all washed up by the time he was 25.
But when he was 20 years old he was a killer. He had frightening power.

 

My word, gay insults? Seriously?

As for Clark age means nothing; he had fought ****ing no one, and was clearly ill-prepared. You used 'reference points' to back up your own agenda.

I've never disputed Cuevas' power, it was freakish. Your opening post was still completely misguided and misleading.

 

When did I dispute his power? And the fact is he was fighting cast-offs.

In boxing terms, Clark was no title contender, regardless of how many street fights he had.

As always, the 'puncher' pulls on the heartstrings of the sentimental boxing fan.

 

Again, love watching the guy, freakish puncher. The OP was just a massive pile of dung.

 

Cuevas would knock Manny out.

A left hook hits a Southpaw's blind spot.

 

You're the only one on this thread who thinks he was fighting "castoffs". We already established the creds of several of his opponents. Palomino was the guy fighting the Mohataurs, Palacios, and Azevado's of the division. You're looking backwards and playing revisionist historian.

It's not like Cuevas ducked top guys like Larry Holmes did. Gray, Ranzany, Weston and Shields were plenty worthy, as was Espana.

BTW Clark signed with Top Rank AFTER the Cuevas fight, had several fights fall through, and then got injured and retired. Cuevas may have made him look ill prepared. He was a well-known prospect going into the title fight with lots of positive pub, not the slappy you've deduced from looking at his record on BoxRec.