Salvador Sanchez W 15 Juan Laporte

I got quite a few of Sanchez fights. Masterful young man.
If I were training the guy fighting him (jokingly) I would time that big azz latin afro.

When it bounces..MOVE!! ANYWHERE!!

 

Don’t forget LaPorte could really crack. I think he actually nailed him twice. Sanchez is a bit like Monzon but dare I say better. Also a lot like Wilfredo Benitez but with an iron chin and a bigger punch.

 

SS was easier to hit that prime Benitez (who wasn’t, haha?) but he did carry more pop and my goodness his poise is to marvel at. He took apart a very dangerous Little Red Lopez like a day’s sparring in the gym and even in his less dominant defenses seemed to have a sixth sense of just when to turn up the heat a notch to bank rounds.

Every minute we have of him on video is something to cherish.

 

Little Red Lopez could punch and hit Sal with some big punches and nothing
basically happened.
Bout 1 Summary
Action packed fight as in most cases with Danny "Little Red" Lopez. The headlines for this fight were: Little Red vs. Little Known. Before the fight, many ringside observers said "Salvador 'who'?" They would for sure know "who" Salvador was afterwards. Many 'experts' said Lopez would KO Sanchez by the fourth round, saying that Sanchez's big jaw would be an easy target to find for Lopez. Sanchez puts on a devestating show of power, and gives Lopez one of the most terrible beatings he's ever had. Lopez is staggered many times throughout the fight, especially in the first round. Angelo Dundee repeatedly acknowledges Salvador's punching power. By the time the middle rounds come around, Sanchez is willing to stand toe-to-toe with Lopez and he was getting the better of the exchanges without a problem. In the later rounds, Salvador shows that he has a ton of energy left as he repeatedly goes in for the finish. Danny shows great tenacity, but he is still repeatedly getting staggered. By the thirteenth round, Lopez's face is a mess. He is bleeding from somewhere in the face, or possibly many places, it's hard to know for sure, and the left side of his face is completely bruised along with his left eye almost sealed shut. Salvador lands a hard right hand-left hook combo that staggers Lopez and Sanchez goes after him, following him with short one-twos. The referee moves in to stop it while Sanchez pounds Lopez into the ropes and lands vicious uppercuts and hard right hands. Sanchez jumps for joy, and Lopez shows great sportsmanship in congratulating the new champion.

Fight 2:
1980-06-21 : Salvador Sanchez 126 lbs beat Danny Lopez 126 lbs by TKO at 1:42 in round 14 of 15

• Location: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• Referee: Mills Lane
• Judge: Harold Buck 125-122
• Judge: Anselmo Escobedo 127-120
• Judge: Benjamin Gonzalez 129-126

• World Boxing Council Featherweight Title (Sanchez defending)
• Lopez applied constant pressure, never taking a backwards step, attempting to hit Sanchez anywhere he could. However, the slick Sanchez would make Lopez miss, and land counter punches with his quick hands.
• In round 14, Lopez would finally wilt, staggering from a left-right. Sanchez unleashed a series of head snapping shots, forcing referee Mills Lane in to stop the punishment.

 

And I misquoted him, actually. He said Chavez was better than Sanchez, Arguello was the best he fought and that Arguello would ko Sanchez.

 

I'm w you .. I love the way he moved. Just that very rare fighter. It's interesting to note how different he was from the traditional Mexican fighter and how he won the adulation from his countrymen .. Sanchez was a great, great fighter taken from us way too early ..

 

When is the last time anyone watched Lopez vs Sanchez I? Watched it recently and that's one of the most brutal and terrible prolonged championship beatings I've ever seen in the modern boxing age. Sanchez is indeed hit now and again but that's because a loaded firearm wouldn't stop "Little Red" and wouldn't stop coming.

 

At the time, it seemed like it was going to follow the usual script: Danny gets knocked down, Danny gets beat up, Danny comes back and wins. Only he didn’t. I don’t think anyone really knew who Sanchez was until this fight. What a coming-out party.

 

I've heard some people say that, but I've also heard at least one of our posters say that Sanchez being damned good was no secret to those "in the know" and serious fans even prior to the first Lopez bout.

Anyone have any idea what either Lopez or Sanchez used to come into the ring at? As in, what was their re hydrated fighting weight.

 

I think we’re talking same-day weigh-in so probaby 130-ish.

 

For both men, or was one larger than the other.

 

I think he has a bit of Monzon inside him as well. Inside the ring, of course.

 

I’d guess they were about the same. Fighters just didn’t blow up after weigh-ins in that era. You weighed that morning and ate but you didn’t overdo it (unless you were Duran before Leonard II, haha).

 

Juan Laporte so under rated. Perhaps the best chin ever in the lower weights.
He faced Salvador Sanchez , Eusebio Pedroza, Azumah Nelson, Barry McGuigan , Rocky Lockridge, Julio Casear Chavez , Mario Miranda and at 140 lbs Kostya Tszyu , Charles Murray and Billy Costello.
Only stopped once at 140 lbs by Zack Padilla in the twilight of his career.