He's taken beatings in the past, but never been a quitter. He'll see this through.
:lol: Whitaker quite literally could have probably outpointed Fuji and Quatuor if they fought him at the same time.
Elorde and Herrera were absolutely done and funnily enough, he fought Laguna a couple of months after their first fight in Panama and near on got...
He'd probably be good enough to get a draw with Whitaker in Equador.
Exchange Napoles' name for Chavez's and you'll have the same argument people were using leading up to the Whitaker-Chavez fight as to why Chavez...
I doubt it. Close fight either way is more likely.
Try and find 60's footage of Jose (e.g. the Cokes fights, the Urbina & Pruitt fights.) Jose was on the decline by the time the 70's hit.
Funnily enough, he didn't mind waiting in the wilderness for the next 3 years at 140-147. Better strategy than facing the likes of a Locche, Lane...
Perkins and WHitaker don't fight too much alike. Both are short, crafty, kind of slick, but the similarities end there pretty much. And as for...
That may be true, but to accuse a guy who did nothing but fight outstanding fighters his whole career of being scared of fighting Napoles.... I...
I agree, given that Napoles put himself in the no.1 contender position, there was no way he was ever going to force a fight with Carlos Ortiz. It...
You clearly have a bias towards the 80's fighters if you've bothered to watch the lower weight guys from that decade.
It's amazing how some people dig their heels in to defend a position on a topic they are only semi-familiar with.
There's a lot of contender sorts who were fantastic fighters in stacked divisions, guys like Gil Turner, Kenny Lane, Jorge Fernandez, Bobby Dykes,...
The Pea of the Chavez fight versus the Oscar of the Manny fight would be more embarrassingly one sided than the second Ramirez fight.
