Carlos Zarate: Unbelievable Puncher

Definitely one of the most prolific punchers the bantamweight division has ever seen

 

Was it you that posted recently saying he was the only man to do so? I know someone did, i have him at number 1 at the weight, but that's for another day!!

 

Check out his superfight with Alfonso Zamora. At the time Carlos was the WBC Champ. and Zamora was the WBA Champ. Because of politics it was a nontitle fight. But they fought anyway. Great fight!

 

Ive seen some footage, mostly stuff on youtube, ive read extensively of him, you should see his fight with Zamora, i think that would have been his absolute peak. I would need to really look deeper to analyse if he has a case to be one of the hardest p4p hitters, but from what i understand, he certainly could be.

Another thing on him, ive posted about this a few times, but his fight with Lupe Pintor, i had a nightmare judging it! Was on youtube, and i thought the rounds were hard enough to judge as it was, then i lost track of where i was somehow, late in the fight aswell, watched it alll in the end but had no idea what my final card was! I still need to watch it again, when i find the hart to do so i'll meet with it again!!

 

Yea going into the fight Zamora had stopped evry1 of his previous opponents and Zarate alll but 1 of his! Zamra wasnt on his level though

EDIT- That was a reply to you la-califa!

 

Definitely one of the best finishers in the history of the Bantamweight division, if not THE best. According to sources close to him, he was feeling sickly prior to his bout with Gomez. Not sure I buy that though, and I doubt he'd have beaten Gomez at his best anyway.

He was similar to a slightly smaller Arguello really, not quite as good IMO, nor as proven against top opposition.

 

If I remember correctly Zamora was 29-0 with 29 Knockouts. & Zarate was 43-0 with 42 knockouts or something pretty close to that. Both were trained by the same man, Cuyo Hernandez. But he stuck with Zarate for this one. Who was actually attacked after the fight by Zamora's father. You can probably see that on a replay of the fight. Lot of bad blood in that one!

 

Thanks for that, i never knew!

Interesting when you hear of a trainer picking 1 of his fighters over another

 

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe Lupe Pintor was a stablemate as well.

 

He lost to Gomez because Gomez was simply the better fighter at 122 pounds.

As far as how he fought, like I said he was a tall boxer-puncher with some similarities to Arguello, though not quite as lanky. There's a decent amount of footage on Youtube.

Here's part of his fight with the highly touted at the time Alfonso Zamora. Both fighters came into the boutt undefeated with a perfect KO percentage, so you can imagine the anticipation at the time.

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Im gunna do the Pintor fight tommorrow defo, i'll post my decision on this thread, about time i just got it done once and for all! You ever judged it yourself? What about you Pea?