[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQfc58XeQXQ&feature=PlayList&p=85995B85FCB029E3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=20[/ame] For me the best mexican fighter ever
I've seen that seventy squillion times. At his best range he's one of the most complete punchers in history. He's Tysonesque in that respect. The Preecha KO is one of my favourite knockouts of all time. Lopez is a puncher whose shots get progressively harder as he works through the shots and that KO shows this. Thank God he missed (due to Preecha's collapse) with that final shot, because that man might have been killed.
Who was his trainer? Was it Beristain. I think i saw him the the background there. He definately looks like a Beristain trained fighter.
One of my favourite fighters. I have his career set on dvd and in every fight he's textbook perfect. He had every punch in the book and they were all delivered with speed, power and accuracy. I loved the left, right, uppercut combination he used to throw - poetry in motion. It's a shame he never got the fights with Carbajal and Gonzalez. Had he beat those two guys, it would have done wonders for his legacy. As perfect as he looked though, I just couldn't rate him as the best Mexican ever - he doesn't have the wins to justify that lofty ranking. I do rate him very highly though, one of the top 5 from Mexico for me. It's hard to rate him over the likes of Chavez, Sanchez, MAB and Morales though - they all beat a much higher level of competition.
Yes was Nacho Beristain there, he was his trainer the second part of his career. At the beggining was Arturo "el cuyo" Hernandez I think he died after Ricardo become World Champion, from there he worked with Beristain. Ruben Olivares, Carlos Zarate, Alfonso Zamora y Ricardo "Finito" Lopez all of them become champions with el cuyo Hernandez all of them undefeated
Damn Did not know that. Those are some serious names on ur resume as a trainer. I had never heard of Arturo. So you think that uppercut is a product of Beristain or Hernandez? I would say Beristain since his fighters use one hell of an uppercut.
hard to tel about the uppercut. I think this guy had like 16 world Champions, he trained them since kids, not like most of today trainers that pick fighters when they are already in the mix. He is one of the biggest reason Mexico has that boxing tradition.
Two entirely different levels of fighter. In the purest sense, I don't know if Calderon would make my top 20 Hispanic Flyweights of all time, whereas Lopez is easily in the top 5.