if you don't know who I am talking about it is this guy This content is protected I don't remember seeing him before but the video tries to make him out to be on the level of Pac and Morales.
He could have been great although his career was cut short. His power was legit...Almost unbelievable kind of power that would rank up there with the hardest hitters ever to lace up a pair of boxing gloves. However, he was a bit raw from a skills perspective. He could definitely box when he wanted to...but understandably, he fell in love with his power and would sometimes just abandon the skills he had and just got wild. I think he could have shown more layers to his game but was never tested by a really elite level fighter. No one was knocking down the door to fight the kid. His power made him a risk that wasn't worth monetary reward
His wife was beautiful http://i42.tinypic.com/o0ts0x.jpg I remember watching one of his fights 3 or 4 years ago (this was a few years after the tragedy obviously) and seeing her and their kids sitting ringside, I felt really sorry for her (she was only 24 when he killed her) but even more so for their poor kids. Absolutely tragic. http://static.soundsandcolours.com/2010/12/jennifer-viera-with-edwin-valero-and-family.jpg
He would have chewed Pac and Morales up like a meat grinder. Tougher, tremendous power, vicious and ferocious.
Considering how he treated his wife and how he took the easy way out, I consider him the biggest damn coward that laced up a pair of gloves. Easy work for Pac or Morales.
Never really saw him fight but he had an astonishing record in a couple of respects. Firstly, he began his career with 18 first round knockouts. Secondly, he won a lot of fights in other countries. I guess if you're knocking guys out in the first, you don't need to worry about hometown judges.
he put everything into every punch so everybody felt his unusual power, but he was beatable, especially by guys like pac and morales. theres a panamanian, mosquera i think was his name, who took everything valero could throw at him for 11 rds while constantly stalking him and pressuring, before the fight was stopped. its a real good fight but you can see his limitations and you can tell that an elite fighter would be able to deal with him. kinda like hammed in that regard.
Considering his fight with Mosquera went 10 and had some difficult moments it a tough argument to make that he would have dominated a prime Manny or Morales