My Latin boxing Hall Of Fame

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  1. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Ok so here is my list if I were to have a Latin boxing Hall of Fame:

    Two notes: In this sense its a Hall of Fame for Latin greatness so the bar would be far lower than the actual Hall of Fame to get in. sort of like state boxing halls of fame. And, in this case Latin is not only reserved to Spanish speaking people, but those with Latin stock or last names as well. Also they have to be retired, so Leo Santa Cruz, Canelo Alvarez and Amanda Serrano do not qualify yet. So here it goes:

    Jorge Ahumada
    Muhammad Ali- honorary member as he should be in every hof
    Romeo Anaya
    Lupe Aquino
    Art Aragon
    Bruno Arcari
    Alexis Arguello
    Baby Arizmendi
    Rene Arredondo
    Harry Arroyo
    Antonio Avelar
    Kid Azteca
    Tony Baltazar
    Marco Antonio Barrera
    Carmen Basilio
    Fidel Bassa
    Wilfred Benitez
    Nino Benvenuti
    Oscar Bonavena
    Yesica Bopp
    Panama Al Brown
    Ivan Calderon
    Hector Camacho, Sr.
    Orlando Canizales
    Miguel Canto
    Michael Carbajal
    Georges Carpentier
    Pedro Carrasco
    Javier Castillejo
    Jesus Castillo
    Ruben Castillo
    Jorge Castro
    Marcel Cerdan
    Antonio Cervantes
    Bobby Chacon
    Julio Cesar Chavez, Sr
    Kid Chocolate
    Juan Martin Coggi
    Diego Corrales
    Miguel Cotto
    Leonardo Cruz
    Stevie Cruz
    Jose Cuevas
    Esteban De Jesus
    Oscar De La Hoya
    Carlos De Leon
    Roberto Duran
    Alfredo Escalera
    Sixto Escobar
    Crisanto Espana
    Ernesto Espana
    Antonio Esparragoza
    Luis Estaba
    Juan Jose Estrada
    Acelino Fredias
    Victor Galindez
    Leo Gamez
    Ceferino Garcia
    Arturo Gatti
    KId Gavilan
    Wilfredo Gomez
    Betulio Gonzalez
    Delia Gonzalez
    Rodolfo Gato Gonzalez
    Humberto Gonzalez
    Joan Guzman
    Juan Guzman
    Alphonse Halimi
    Herbert Hardwick (Puerto Rican born and mother)
    Genaro Hernandez
    Melissa Hernandez
    Rafael Herrera
    Luis Ibarra
    Eder Jofre
    Willie Jorrin
    Fidel La Barba
    Jake La Motta
    Kevin Kelley (Puerto Rican mother)
    Santos Laciar
    Ismael Laguna
    Juan Laporte
    Oscar Larios
    Jose Legra
    Richie Lemos
    Rafael Limon
    Nicolino Locche
    Duilio Loi
    Alvaro Lopez
    Danny Lopez
    Juan Manuel Lopez
    Ricardo Lopez
    Tony Lopez
    Miguel Lora
    Raul Macias
    Lupe Madera
    Ray Mancini
    Ernesto Marcel
    Rocky Marciano
    Juan Manuel Marquez
    Rafael Marquez
    Mario Martinez
    Sergio Martinez
    Rocky Mattioli
    Manuel Medina
    John John Molina
    Pedro Montanez
    Carlos Monzon
    Erik Morales
    Armando Muniz
    Jose Napoles
    Fulgencio Obelmejias
    Osvaldo Ocasio
    Ruben Olivares
    Rafael Ortega
    Carlos Ortiz
    Manuel Ortiz
    Manny Pacquiao
    Jorge Paez Sr.
    Carlos Palomino
    Benny Paret
    Eusebio Pedroza
    Willie Pep
    Raul Perez
    Pascual Perez
    Bernardo Pinango
    Lupe Pintor
    Carlos Quintana
    Jose Luis Ramirez
    Armando Ramos
    Ultiminio Ramos
    Jaime Rios
    Antonio Rivera
    Luis Rodriguez
    Edwin Rosario
    John Ruiz
    Vicente Saldivar
    Alex Sanchez
    Salvador Sanchez
    Samuel Serrano
    Efren Torres
    Jose Torres
    Felix Trinidad Jr.
    Amado Ursua
    Rodrigo Valdez
    Fernando Vargas
    Martin Vargas
    Wilfredo Vazquez Sr.
    Ada Velez
    Pancho Villa
    Alfonso Zamora
    Hilario Zapata
    Daniel Zaragona
    Carlos Zarate

    What do you all guys think?
     
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  2. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Nobody with a last name occurring alphabetically after Chac? Like, say, Chav? ;)
     
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  3. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Julio Cesar Chavez......Jr!!
     
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  4. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Antonio, I absolutely love what you did here. Great stuff. Cheers. I hate to nitpick though, but I believe Ray Mancini is half Italian American and half Irish American.
     
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  5. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    So Half-tin then lol
     
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  6. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Antonio, I just reread the list much more carefully and realized you included ALL Latins, not just those of Spanish decent. My bad. Apologies. Either way, a great list!
     
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  7. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Im adding names as I remember for example right now I added Rodrigo Valdez.

    Chavez, however, was in the first edition lol.
     
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  8. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Thanks man
     
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  9. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A few more to consider:

    Enrique Bolanos
    Chango Carmona
    Rodofo Gonzalez
    Alfredo Urbina
    Jose Medel
    Jesus Pimental
    Bernardo Caraballo
    Famoso Gomez
    Oscar Bonavena
    Nicolino Loche
    Rafael Herrera
    Rodolfo Martinez
    The Canizales brothers - Gaby and Orlando
    The Sandoval brothers - Superfly and Richie
    The Baltazar brothers - Frankie and Tony
    Mauro Mina
    Toluco Lopez
    Jose Legra
    Luis Rodriguez
    Nino Valdes
    Jorge Ahumada
    Kid Tunero

    Damn, I could keep going. But a great start, Antonio.
     
  10. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Lol thanks! I like some of the names there!
     
  11. ChrisJS

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  12. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    @AntonioMartin1 this is boxing sacrilege. You will have to atone for this one.
     
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  13. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    I’ve read way too many articles on “are Brazilians considered Latin?” just because of Jofre.
     
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  14. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Brazil is part of Latin America but they aren’t Hispanics. Jofre actually is half Italian blood on his mothers side (100% Italian) and his dads side is French Basque and his dad was from Argentina and his parents from Chile.
     
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  15. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Joffre and Freitas coming in!
     
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