Salvador Sanchez amateur career

I lived on the Texas/Mexico border for a length of time. Everybody there, of a certain age, claims to have knowledge of Sanchez. This is similar to when I first came up and every black guy had a close tie to Ezzard Charles.
Sanchez couldn't beat Arguello if he was allowed to use a baseball bat and had a tag team partner. There is no reason in the career of Sanchez to suggest otherwise. Little Red, my idol, had been shot for years, but carefully matched because he made money. LaPorte? Tough guy, lazy, not much. You cannot write a different story about his career. Azumah Nelson, at the time he was very green and hadn't become the ok to good fighter that he would grow into.
Sanchez was no smooth moving clever fighter and he would not be facing a disinterested Arguello. Sanchez is even more overrated than "young Foreman."
Can you imagine the money that would have been made from a fight with Arguello v Little Red Lopez? Why didn't the fight happen? Because the Lopez people knew that Lopez hadn't a prayer with Arguello, but they took Sanchez...and Sanchez didn't look to fight Arguello. He took a limited (mediocre) guy in La Porte and a rookie in Nelson. What would Arguello have done to Gomez at 130?

 

Two things - Nelson became a helluva lot better than "ok to good" and Sanchez was actively chasing Arguello at the time of his death.

 

The status of Nelson is a matter of opinion. At the time of his death Sanchez was going to fight LaPorte again.
Nelson was a solid guy that fought in the era in which he lived. He didn't deserve a draw with Fenech in the first fight, and he was blessed in the first fight with Azabache Martinez. Tough guy, but no great fighter, not by any stretch.

 

Ok we will definitely disagree on that one.

Unbeknownst to most Arguello and Sanchez had actually already signed to fight. They both had business to take care of first in Pryor and a Laporte rematch but they were both keen at that point.

Sanchez also took Gomez who was considered by some to be the best fighter in boxing and whom was certainly feared tho Sanchez didn't seem to know what fear was.

 

They were 14 pounds and 3 weight classes apart at the time. Arguello was in no way going to make 126 or 130 again, and probably not 135. At which weight were they going to fight?

 

135. Sanchez was jumping up 2 divisions to fight for Arguello's 135 title which Arguello still held regardless of the Pryor match.