Let's Generalize Mexican Fighters (my fair assessment)

Your standard Mexican boxer has the following (note these are generalizations):

Pretty good boxing skills, ALWAYS including good infighting ability.

A whole LOT of heart. These guys just don't have quit in them.

Average speed. Not many speedster Mexicans.

A willingness to, no, a desire to brawl. Take one to give one? They'll take two...or three.

Pretty good footwork, decent counter punching ability, punching power.

Great chins.

 

I can see where this is going

 

Well, there are two main schools of mexican boxing: Classical boxer/puncher; who punches a lot in combinations, and particularly will counter punch in combinations. Think Finito, Sanchez, Marquez brothers. Mikey Garcia seems to follow this school - boxer/puncher, not so much counter puncher, but throws straight, crisp, hard punches off a great jab from mid-range. . . These boxers prefer to operate from MID-RANGE, but most of the time, they CAN fight on the inside as well. CANELO follows this school as well. . .

Then you have your brawler/inside fighters like Chavez Sr., Chavez Jr. Margarito (of course not nearly as skilled as Sr.), Rios, Alvarado. . . There are a lot better examples of the last three, but just giving recent guys to get an idea of the style.


But I agree, those do seem like traits most mexican boxers posses. Of course you got plenty of extremely fast mexicans, who don't like to brawl. . VERY RARE you see a chinny Mexican, but I'm sure there's some who exist. . .

You forgot the left hook, especially to the body. . Lol, Mexico will DISOWN you if you can't fire a left hook to the body.

 

You're right, can't believe I forgot body work.

Mexicans never neglect the body.

 

What about Morales? in which "school" would you put him?

 

I like the come-forward style most Mexicans bring into their fights

 

Morales and Barrera were two of my fav fighters bitd

 

Numero uno,left hook to the body

 

Morales is the definite classical boxer/puncher school. . . He prefers to fight from mid-range. Of course he also has great technique on the inside, but he prefers mid-range.

Although he has brawling tendencies, or not so much brawling, but a tendency to be aggressive, and where he likes to stand in the pocket and EXCHANGE, where he usually gets the better of because of technique, and timing. . . But obviously he's not what he used to be. . .

 

I woulden't say always great infighting skills. Ricardo Lopez didn't. Mabye 99% of the time

 

Rarely clinch, even when they get hurt.

 

And they speak Spanish. If they don't they're American.

 

If they are doing very well, then they are americans.

 

Yes, this is why earlier I distinguished between the two basic schools (styles) of Mexican Boxing: Classical boxer/puncher - combination puncher/counter puncher: Finito, Marquez brothers, Sanchez, Morales, MAB. . These guys prefer to fight from mid-range. . .

Then your infighting/brawling school, which is most notably led by Chavez Sr. . This school can produce GREAT technique-on-the-inside boxers like Chavez, who have brawling tendencies, or just plain out brawlers on the inside, with somewhat limited skills like Margarito.

 

TBH, without googling anything I bet Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have are generally more exciting, have been in more FOTY than any other ethnicity and have had more champions than most other countries. Out of the 200-300 world champions America has had, 90+ of those are of Mexican-Americans (ODLH, Vargas, etc..)

My general assessment...