is Pernel Whitaker Overrated?

So thats your argument, not being beaten at your best unlike napoles? Like yeah, chavez is really some outlier right. Roy Jones never lost until he was 35, ricardo lopez looked unbeatable, pryor didnt lose until he was way past it, floyd mayweather has no clear cut loss. Chavez is such an outlier right. Chavez stop dedicating himself because hes a quitter. Who are the 3 best guys chavez beat? Meldrick, Camacho and featherweight lockridge, oh my FML.

You keep using the napoles lost to average fighters argument because you got no argument in terms of who they actually beat. I give way more credit to the lightweight that ruled welterweight and beat everyone in the division. Chavez fought featherweights and tijuana taxi drivers. Napoles is way better than him. Don King knew chavez wouldnt be world class at 147 so he kept his ass at 140.

Napoles is one the all time great welterweights, chavez isnt. So yeah you really got no argument, except blemishes. The floyd mayweather argument:good. Lol at posters thinking your picking napoles apart piece by piece, you aint doing ****. Napoles would have easily won a series against chavez anytime. Heck people on the internet think he can possibly beat leonard and gavilan, julio cesar chavez is a mere after thought.

Floyd Mayweather against castillo isnt a clear loss, what the **** is this ****. Did he arguably loss, yea, clear cut, wtf. If anything Chavez got his ass beat clear cut against Meldrick and richard steele essentially robbed meldrick of a win. Randall beat chavez both times. Lockridge and Laporte arguably beat chavez, if anyone has gifts its Chavez.

 

Theres a difference between downplaying peas legacy and suggesting ESB overrates him. I acknowledge Pea is an all timer, but since I dont bow down to him and worship him the way others do, that makes me a troll? I have seen all of whitakers relevant fights, sweet scientist isnt some expert. I laugh at how you guys treat him like hes some bible of boxing. He aint owning ****, hes just butthurt that after all the mayweather bashing that constantly goes on, someone wanted to suggest that Whitaker doesnt exactly have a GOAT resume, because the fact of the matter is he doesnt.

 

Ike Quartey, Meldrick Taylor, Hector Camacho, etc. Sure sweet scientist can respond and give reasons as to why those fights didnt happen, but at the end of the day, this makes his resume worse than napoles and thats all that matters. At the end of the day, its prizefighting, your supposed to take big fights and get big paycheques. These are the fights that would have made pernell money, fighting the diazs, cardonas, lomellis is barely enough to pay his trainer.

 

Here we go again with the blemishes Alfredo Urbina was consistenly ranked as a top lightweight contender in his era, Billy Backus was ranked as the #2 welterweight 18 months after Napoles had beaten him and always hovered around the top 10. Randall beat chavez twice, of course you have to mention chavez lost his spirit after getting tooled. He must of also lost his spirit after getting a gift against meldrick, because his comp for the next 2 years was a joke.

Chavez and Napoles are essentially the same size. Sure wish if Chavez was a tinny bit bigger he could rule 147, keep dreaming. I love to read other threads of people claiming chavez was overrated with weak competition and there are videos of people claming hes overatted too. Love reading them and watching them, so many of them.

You can wish chavez could have beaten him at 135 or 140, but reality is chavez fought cab drivers outside 3-5 good opponents, while Napoles ruled a traditional 8 weight class and cleaned out the competition, while being the same height and previosuly fighting at 128-140 for nearly a decade.