Eusebio Pedroza rated 32 in a list of the best fighters in the last 50 years 1996

It's somewhat revealing that the only other top-50 guy he fought (presumably Olivares) was 206 years old when he got him. Pedroza was great, no question though. Sanchez had bigger name sin a shorter span, and he's remembered for that (fairly), but Pedroza's path was longer, less exciting and more...…...I don't know, understated maybe. Still some good scalps there and that many defenses while globetrotting the way he did to his opponents hometown a lot of the time demands respect.

Filthy b/stard, but great.

 

Watch the Juan LaPorte fight...….

 

Yeah, Pedroza had been champion for a couple of years before he caught the attention of the boxing mainstream; in part due to the fact that he was globe-trotting and in part because with the exception of Olivares, a lot of his early defenses came against guys who were decent but not recognizable to any but the hardcore. In contrast.
Sanchez emerged as a star a lot sooner because he wiped out an exciting and well known Lopez, and followed up with a nationally televised defense against a lauded challenger in Castillo. Different roads to get to a similar point.

Bernard Hopkins looks like a choirboy in comparison.

 

LaPorte probably felt about the same afterward, I'm sure......