Did Chavez beat the prime out of Rosario

From what I understand Rosario was already pretty deep in the grip of drug addiction. By the same token I feel it was JCC best performance which didn't help the situation.
I do feel a top shelf Rosario makes a much better fight of it but still loses. We missed some really good work from Rosario due to his addiction.

 

Sure didn't help him.

 

Yeah Rosario spent too much time on the ropes and wasn't able to make his own punching power a factor, which resulted in him taking a vicious beating.
Chavez showed good defense in that fight

 

Chavez is overrated. Chavez is overrated. Just remembering it to you today john

 

Chavez forced him to the ropes.

 

Yeah he did but Rosario was supposed to be the bigger man since Chavez was moving up and he was regarded as the bigger puncher.
All credit goes to Chavez but Rosario definitely either couldn't or wouldn't do what people expected

 

Fixed it for you.

 

Chavez was a lot physically stronger than Rosario, and even though Rosario had good footwork, he wasn't never fleet of foot, and he couldn't do much to stop Chavez from cutting him off and muscling him against the ropes. Usually, his devastating power could bail him out, but Chavez walked right through his best punches... so he was screwed. Simple as that.

You're being too harsh on Rosario. He got beat by one of the top 15-20 fighters that ever lived.

And to the answer the question, yes. Rosario was never the same after the Chavez fight.

In the end, the Bramble fight was Rosario's apex. One of the most impressive destructions of the 80s.

 

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good post. I remember Rosario that the odd little skip move he did to get his feet into position, and Chavez was stronger. He looked bigger, which surprised me how much bigger he looked than Rosario. Rosario was a great puncher, but he was a hot and cold as a fighter a little. I am not sure why that is. I don't think he was elite level at all. I think he was a style fighter and his level to me is similar to Donald Curry. Some styles he devastated like Bramble and others he folded against like the second Ramirez fight. Or Chavez. I was shocked at his 140 pound title win against Garza.. ..

 

Lol

 

Yeah and it wasn't the only time Chavez beat the prime out of a guy either.

 

Every time someone waxed poetic about Rosario and him being the Second Coming he'd lose, so it's hard to say exactly what comprised his prime years. The lowdown on him was that to beat him you had to back him up and smother him. No one was ever better at that than Chavez, and unfortunately for Rosario, Julio also had an incredible chin. Hard to see how Rosario could ever beat him, given those issues. His decline after 1987 could have had as much to do with his storied substance abuse problems as Chavez's beatdown, but it's hard to ignore. A more thorough mugging you're hard-pressed to find.

 

Rosario was definitely an elite fighter. Unless your definition of elite is very different from mine.

There's no doubt he blew hot and cold though.

He had no business going life-and-death with fragile Howard Davis.

However, regardless of what the judges said... he did hand a prime Camacho his first loss, and altered Hector's entire style.