i have only been able to see one of his fights it happened to be a monster of a fight, when he KO8 Gomez. but in your opinion how good have he had been? was that a lucky fight ? or was that just the begining of a great career?
thank you for the info i am going to look more up now i really enjoyed that fight from the first round to the eighth it was great..
A little piece of trivial information about salvador's last 10 oponents. Their combined record was 342 wins with 17 loses....at the time they fought of course. TY boxrec! ^_^ But yeah from what little I have seen the guy was even better than morales and all this already at 21 years old or so.
Oh Chava . . . my man. He fought "little red" Lopez, Wilfredo Gomez and Azumah Nelson and beat them. That's not luck my friend. :-( How good? We can only guess because there's no telling but he's just peaking up at the time of his death. :yep
He was one of the most complete fighters I've seen and he already had an excellent resume at the time of his death. He could've definitely been top 10
Guillermo, Sanchez was already an established champ when he stopped Gomez. He'd already handed Lopez his head twice, and turned back other challengers subsequently, so he was a staple on TV and was quite well known by that point. Still, he was a 2-1 underdog against Wilfredo. As to what he may have become; I dunno. as big a fan as I obviously am, I think we may have seen his apex. The guy started young (age 15) as a pro, which means he'd been a pro for eight years already by the time he died. Not many improve to any great degree after that much time. It's not physical age that makes the difference, it's ring age, and he had already had a lot of long, extended efforts in his resume. It's also a lot to assume that he could retain his power, speed, and legendary stamina with an eventual move to 135. I have my doubts about this. You probably haven't read this yet, but an interesting fact about him is that he was in such amazing shape that after reaching peak levels, his breathing and heartrate would return to normal resting levels in only 37 seconds. That is just ridiculous. Watch his fights that go into the championship rounds and see if you can see him ever fighting with his mouth open. I've watched his fights for years, and haven't seen it yet.
thank you for all this great info guys! and yes now that i think about it i never once saw him tierd or with his mouth open in that fight ... what i most liked about it was how stratigicly he tore gomez apart at times it seemed like he would let gomez rebuild strength just so he could beat him down again i heard Gomez had thrown some nasty insults before the fight maybe thats why but who knows awesome fight....
Have you ever seen his fight with Becerra, mate? If so, what caused him to lose? From losing at Becerra's record, it seems the win was...unexpected Injury or something like that? It seems strange that such a great fighter has a loss like that.
........God, I wish. All I know is that it was contested for the Mexican bantamweight title, when Sanchez was all of 17. The one I really want to see is his draw with Juan Escobar, where he was actually floored and later almost stopped by the strong southpaw. He was very fortunate to receive the draw, from what I understand. He said that it was after this fight that he decided to grow up and start training seriously. It seems he meant it. If anyone has one of these fights, I will give you one meeeeelllion dollars for a clean copy. :blood
Sanchez could have been possibly the greatest Mexican fighter of all time and maybe a top 10 fighter of all time. He had so much talent and there were so many big fights out there for him...he is an ATG, but it is terribly sad to think of what could have been.
I think it was before the 8th round of the Gomez fight and Sanchez took a deep breath with his mouth still closed. Then he was fine. His cardio was amazing. Also agree that it was possible that he wouldn't have gotten much better.
