Lupe Pintor

A very good, solid technician was Lupe at his best, always enjoyed watching him fight. While not a great fighter himself, he was the type of fighter who would always give the greats of his division a hard nights work win or lose. His gutsy effort against Wilfredo Gomez when he attempted to capture the jr.featherweight crown remains one of the best performances from a fighter moving up in weight to challenge the legitimate champion a weight class above him I have ever seen.

 

Had many thrilling title defenses, Needed a really big victory to move him up on the board, with the other great Mexican Icons. A rematch with Carlos Zarate or a Match with WBA counterpart Jeff Chandler would have at least gave him the opportunity to achieve greatness. But in a losing situation, the Wilfredo Gomez fight was an excellent effort.

 

Murderer.

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yeasterday i watched Gomez-Pintor and if it was a lesser fighter than Gomez,Pintor wouldve won the title.
but a great effort from both and a great fight.

 

Pintor was devistated by that... He still keeps in contact with Owens' family to this day.

 

I am glad you posted up the correct response to that,

 

Isn't it a pity that THEE defining fight for both he and Chandler against each other was never made. Superb fighter.

 

Maybe, but not funny or classy.

 

Owen's had very thin areas of his skull.

He was a diaster waiting to happen and if it didn't occur in the Pintor fight it would have happened later on.

 

Pintor was an excellent fighter, something which he never proved better in taking Gomez to a horrible place, but bottom line, he should not of beaten Zarate - simply one of the worst decisions you'll ever lay your eyes on.

 

...............I have to disagree as to the severity of how bad the Pintor-Zarate decision was. If was far from the worst I've seen. Pintor did some good work in there, and while I also thought Zarate won, it was a close fight. Nowhere near the robbery many make it out to be.

 

It was, clearly, a loss, and yet Art Lurie and Harold Bucks scorecards were both upside down, and too close.

Zarate scooped up the majority of the rounds with the his better punching, and won the last round.

He was not guilty of letting his foot off the gas and still lost.

If you scored it for Pintor, you do not know how to score a fight, simple.

 

..........We have no disagreement as to whom we both think won, but I think the wide discrepancy in the scoring plays a part in this somewhat overblown legend.

The one judge had Zarate up by a mile, while the other two had Pintor slightly up. I think it was that little eye-opener that got the "robbery" ball rolling.

Besides the fact that they did indeed have the wrong guy winning. I'm just saying there are a lot of others I think were worse than that, and that it was no whitewash at all. Extremely competitive fight.

 

You're not wrong, but it was a bad injustice.

Bob Martin's scorecard was off the mark, but he had the right man winning.

Certainly more competitive than his card reads, but it was a case of Zarate out doing him for the majority - a boxing 'judge' should see this.

It was just poor scoring; a classic case of a scoring aggression over efficiency, which is pivotal to seperate if you're going to be a judge.

It was a fans decision, not an officials.