ricardo lopez was a better than floyd mayweather. ?

So hard to judge a fighter that stayed at 105 his whole career and many people didn't know about him until really late in his career. I know they are both boxers, but it's really hard to compare the two. If I had to I say Floyd is greater only because he has beaten names people have heard of.

 

I love Lopez. I wish he got more recognition

 

finito is one of my top 5 of all time, to me he is a better version of marquez more so then mayweather

 

Ricardo Lopez is a near perfect fighter, what makes his ATG ranking a bit lower is 2 reasons:

#1 Not working enough to become Undisputed at 105lbs, leaving Vorapin enjoy an undisturbed 20 IBF title defenses...Only to challenge him when he was past his prime

#2 His fights with Alvarez were too close & by effect forced him out Minimumweight.

Lopez ATG status is not far from Mayweather, his Alvarez fights are similar to Castillo 2 fighst with Mayweather. The only diff is that Mayweather is still active and can take much more bigger fights to enhance his ATG status

 

lol. no. lopez has no wins of note

 

correct me if im wrong but one of the alveraz fights i think it was the first he did not make weight and finito decided to fight him regardless

 

It was the rematch (and yes you make a good point, that the move was not exactly Alvarez), the first fight was really close. Both fight were close & might have been the reason Lopez decided to move up or wrap things up

Ricardo held the WBC for so long & his first fight was when he unified WBA & he never attempted to unify IBF

That said Ricardo Lopez is a top level ATG, his two flaws that I mentioned is what lowers his ATG ranking

 

ignorant mothafocker!! atsch

 

Great career, but seriously lacking in competition. Easy to say now, but that kind of safety margin when you are the biggest guy in the division with a big punch and just stay there ... he has no wins over other ATG fighters. You cant rank him higher than Barrera, Marquez, and Morales, regardless of his sterling record. Those guys fought the very best regardless of weight class, climbing to find challenges.

Also, if he wasn't so tall, his bull **** WASTED JAB habit would have cost him. Paw, paw, paw, with no intention to reach or even really throw - an overhand right, right over the top if he were EVER fighting a guy taller than him, which would almost never happen in his career.

No way does he have the complete skill set Floyd does.

 

why do i feel like you could not even name a handful of noteworthy minimum weights

 

And Sanchez, while great, is vastly over-rated in the grand scheme of things because he destroyed Wilfredo Gomez ... the rest of his career is not THAT spectacular, except for the fact that the man never tired, ever.

If Barrera never fought Junior Jones, still had his bull **** loss to Morales, beat Hamed, and then promptly died, we would be calling HIM the greatest featherweight ever. It's all about the timing - if no one ever sees you age in the ring, or if you don't come up against your stylistic nightmare (Pac's career minus JMM) you wind up looking a lot better.

 

heres a list of 20 "defenses" of the WBC title he held

Pretty Boy Lucas 27-2-2 (coming off loss)
Morgan Ndumo 10-2-1 (coming off loss)
Myung-Sup Park 11-4-0 (lost 3 of 6)
Javier Varguez 37-16-1 (16 losses)
Manny Melchor 25-19-4 (19 losses)
Toto Pongsawang 4-0-0 (4 wins)
Kitichai Preecha 7-3-0 (7 wins)
Kwang-Soo Oh 6-0-0 (6 wins)
Kimio Hirano 9-3-3 (9 wins)
Hideyuki Ohashi 14-3-0
Kyung-Yung Lee 20-1-0
Singprasert Kittikasem 10-2-1
Rocky Lin 14-0-0
Saman Sorjaturong 15-1-1
Kermin Guardia 21-0-0
Surachai Saengmorakot 10-0-0
Yamil Caraballo 13-4-1
Mongkol Charoen 20-1-0
Andy Tabanas 30-2-0
Ala Villamor 29-1-1

a whos who of not much....

yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

 

Great little fighter, but I have to be honest here, I just can't keep up with the lowest weight classes to know who's worth their salt and who isn't among his competition. It's also a shame he never moved up to further challenge himself.

Floyd ranks higher for me, but again, part of that is I'm much more familiar with who Floyd's beaten.