Cassamayor's 3rd pro fight...

El Cepillo so smooth great fighter.

 

Excellent underrated fighter. Plus a Cuban who had a good chin and didn't quit when the going got tough.

 

As for the good chin very much the same as many other Cuban fighters including Yuniesky Gonzalez, Luis Ortiz, Sullivan Barrera, Yordanis Despaigne, ....

 

p4p great pro Cuban defector.

 

One of the very few Cubans with sturdy chins. Good fighter. Only got KTFO by JMM when he was shot and he gave JMM a very tough fight imo, it was even at that point IIRC.

 

I'm old enough to remember his beating McCullough in the olympic final in 1992

 

Let me amend that: p4p GOAT of the modern era.

Ahead of him you have Napoles (defected to Mexico) as well as both Kids (fought professionally for Cuba prior to Castro's ban).

He's 2nd all time among defectors to USA, behind El Feo.

Even including amateurs that never turned over he is still top 5 in the modern era (and that includes guys like Stevenson, Kindelán, Savon, Aragón...fine company)

The closest to him is probably Rigondeaux, but while El Chacal was the more decorated amateur (though not by much! Casamayor was a beast even with headgear...) there's still lots of catching up to do to reach El Cepillo in the pros, and time isn't on his side.

It remains to be seen how great Ramírez can end up being. Of all the current amateurs he stands the best chance of joining those ranks.

Many projected such heights for guys like Solis or Gamboa - it just didn't pan out. Combining pro with amateur neither of them edges out Casa, IMO.

 

and i was born in 93

 

Wow. :yep

So to you the Cold War amounted to nothing but a cool breeze you heard about secondhand.

It feels weird to have been part of the last ever "OMG, we're definitely all gonna die any day now!!" generation.

...but then, we had much less Islamic militant terrorism in those days to worry about. :!:

Some, but not as much.

 

at least i get to call myself a 90s kid. (w/e that means)

 

It means when you hear a discussion about Hackey Sacks you don't just assume that is someone's porn name. :conf

 

i was born just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. I hate the term millennial. I think ideology wise I have l have more in common with Generation X than I do than the selfie taking ice bucket challenge morons my age these days.

 

Funny, the Cold War actually has a bearing on how those of us old enough to remember it view the Cuban fighters.

They were originally the enemy, just by virtue of nationality - and their Olympic heroes were something to be reviled, as they represented a slap in the face of the American way of life and their every success was like a kick in the nuts.

...but the defectors? :think

They're sort of like Piccolo circa the Raditz saga, after having buddied up with Son-Goku. Formidable, respected ally but still bearing the aftertaste of slight mistrust.