More Skilled: Canto or Napoles?

I helped a little bit, but you did the major work and watching. Great post mate. Hope people appreciate it.

@Tin_Ribs

 

We'll just keep bumping it!

If a certain few see this and reach out, you have done good mate. Excellent analysis.

 

If I had to say something, it's that Canto was the more skilled fighter, but he was much more 'linear' than Jose.
He had a strict paradigm that he consequently stuck to and enforced with extreme skill.

Napoles was more innovative and could afford to deviate, mostly because he could cope physically when doing it.

 

You make me want to study up on Canto. I remember seeing him box on a Spanish language channel. At that point his style didn't appeal to me. I was probably 12 or 13, maybe younger, and had yet to learn that watching someone else fight like Little Red Lopez is more fun than trying to do it yourself.
I thought Rivero was doing a great job with De LaHoya and would have studied Canto then but, in those dark days, you had to buy fights to watch them.

 

The answer is Napoles

 

The term "skill" is, in the case between these two greats...a very nebulous/ambiguous thing...it's like trying to determine which artist is the best,...Rembrandt or Velasquez. There is no "better" or "worse".

 

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I am a Napoles appreciator, but I do think he had the better blend of offense and defense.