Is Gerry Penalosa HOF worthy?

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  1. jpab19

    jpab19 Exploding Muffin Dad Full Member

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    With Penalosa having retired recently, do you think he deserves to be inducted in the HOF at some point? He was a world champion at super-flyweight and bantamweight and has good wins over Tomas Rojas, Jhonny Gonzalez, Young-Joo Cho and I think deserved the wins in his losses against In-Joo Cho, Daniel Ponce De Leon and Eric Morel. He was never knocked down and the only time he was stopped was against Juanma Lopez, who broke records for throwing and landing power shots, and looked two weight classses bigger but still couldnt put an old Penalosa down. He finished up with a record of
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  2. Brickhaus

    Brickhaus Packs the house Full Member

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    Not even close. Hall of very good.
     
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  3. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    gatti wasnt as good a fighter as Penalosa and he got in, and they dont just base it on acomplishments anyway
     
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  4. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For my money, he is. Whatta sweet fighter. Not a colorful personality, but every fighter 'n trainer in a gym would stop what they were doin' to watch him spar.
     
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  5. nip102

    nip102 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    u got a time machine or something:nut
     
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  6. SNV

    SNV Sugar Nikolai Valuev Full Member

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    No. A very good fighter, a great one even, but not HOF standard.
     
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  7. bandido

    bandido The Black Bandit Full Member

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    Yes, but not a first ballot HOF
     
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  8. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    well who did gatti beat that should put him into the hall of fame? I think he got in more based on his heart and the great fights he was in
     
    sportofkings, Oct 28, 2010
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  9. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    He took a HOF beating from Lopez.
     
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  10. nip102

    nip102 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    gatti isn't in the hall
     
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  11. jpab19

    jpab19 Exploding Muffin Dad Full Member

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    Yeah, Lopez who was at least two weight classes too big for Penalosa, broke records for throwing-and landing-power punches but still couldnt put a very much past his best Penalosa down.
     
    jpab19, Oct 28, 2010
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  12. skel1983

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    Do you realise the criteria to be H.O.F worthy? Retired for 5 years, so hense have you got a time machine? Are you like in 2013 or something?? Gatti is not in there not possible yet. :patsch:roll:
     
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  13. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    Penalosa is unbelievably tough.
     
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  14. unloco

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    boggle?
     
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  15. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    :patsch damn it stupid comment from me i forgot he retired in 2007, but wasnt there a lot of talk about him being inducted? Plus there has been fighters who were inducted who hardly deserved to be in more than Penalosa
     
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