Yaqui Lopez

http://www.boxing.com/yaqui_lopez_from_stockton_to_philadelphia.html

Met him once, what a good guy!

 

Pity he didnt get to lay claim to a championship belt, just his luck that he had to mix it with a raft of great champions... and that Rossman was pre-title
but he should be remembered as a great contender in a Lt Heavyweight Golden Age.

 

you met him in stockton california?

 

Nope, met him in L.A.

 

Lovely article.

 

Lopez was one hell of a fighter...one of the very best never to have won a world championship. Recently I saw the Lopez-Conteh fight. I was amazed at how competitve Lopez was.

 

Super-educated left hand. He could do so much with it, and as gritty as they come.

 

I'll add that he put his punches together -- and set them up -- in extremely sophisticated ways. I've been watching boxing for decades, yet I've found that I cannot always follow the sequencing of Lopez's combinations. He was incredible.

Did you see the Conteh fight, by any chance?

 

Real warrior shame he never got a title.

 

Conteh beat Lopez with one hand.

 

Most of the rounds were extremely close, though. Conteh was hard pressed for much of the fight.

 

I think the Conteh fight is more a sign of how good an on Form Conteh could be...Here he was coming back from a layoff and right hand Problems,

 

You are correct about Conteh's high ability level. I was amazed at how close a fight Lopez gave him, though. Only recently did I get a chance to view that film. Previously I was under the false impression that Conteh had won easily.

 

he's in the movie "Callejero" (2014)

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he's very old school in his training methods.