Miguel Canto - his top 5 wins

I gave you that in the other thread. His resume takes a big, steaming **** on Calzaghe's.

 

LOL. ChinaHandoJoe, we know how this turns out. You make a futile attempt to shoot down Canto's resume. Pea then schools you brutally. End of story. Why don't you do more reading and less writing until you learn a little more.

 

Miguel Canto was the purest defensive boxing master of Mexico. How in the hell can anyone not realize that?

 

Well, I admire your good nature but I look forward to Pea's response

 

Probably the one's Sweet Pea mentioned. Furesawa could slot in there aswell imo.

 

The same 6-4 fighter that he immediately avenged his loss to post-Canto. He hadn't yet hit his prime at the time of the Canto bout, that's to be certain. However, a year after he stopped one of the smoothest Flyweights in the game in Alfonso Lopez. The following year he stopped Shoji Oguma for the WBC title, and avenged it 3 months later against Korean Tae-Shik Kim, who'd previously beaten underrated Flyweight great Luis Ibarra for the WBA portion. A few years down the road he avenged his loss to Freddy Castillo via stoppage and stopped an up and coming Wilfredo Vazquez. His chin was unreliable, his punch wasn't.

The fact that Canto never had the means to expose the unreliable chins should give you some insight as to how skilled the man was as a pure boxer. He never slipped up until well past his prime. For a midget (even by Flyweight standards) to be so consistent in such a stacked era speaks volumes about his technical craftsmanship.

 

Pep, Locche, Canto, Benitez, Whitaker. I have no problem at all putting Canto in that group defensively. I could also argue that Canto was better offensively than Locche. That's pretty good company to be in. Legendary? I guess that's subjective. He's good enough for me.

 

:good

 

Alfonso Lopez, Joey Olivo, Rafael Pedroza.