My top 10 all time Mexican greats

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  1. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm no fan of either, so I have no dog in that fight.

    I disagree though, I think it's the opposite. Morales tends to be the more disliked of the two.

    Boxing fans loved Barrera because his style was, at least early in his career, similar to Chavez.

    But we cant ignore the fact that the same Junior Jones, who TWICE beat Barrera, was destroyed in 4 by Morales.

    And the same Pacquiao, who twice beat up Barrera without breaking a sweat in either fight, lost to Morales in the first go around.
     
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  2. ChrisJS

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    McKinney had hammered Jones by the time Morales got to him. Morales struggled with a lot more average fighters than did Barrera and Barrera was the man who defeated Hamed so that kind of shifts the balance too. It’s very close between the both but with it being so close I think Barrera’s series lead of 2-1 edges it.
     
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  3. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not to that extreme, but I would rank Pernell Whitaker ahead of both Monzon and Hagler
     
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  4. Mod-Mania

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    It was a case of a fighter having a better fighter's number like you said with JMM and Pac it happens
     
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  5. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Just started thinking about this...if we included Mexican Americans or Mexican’s of other nations, would any of them crack this list if it was based ethnically rather than nationally? Would it change things very much?
     
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  6. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I was actually gonna post a separate Mex American list. Let me open that thread now.
     
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  7. Flo_Raiden

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    Julio Cesar Chavez
    Ruben Olivares
    Vicente Saldivar
    Salvador Sanchez
    JMM
    Erik Morales
    MAB
    Carlos Zarate
    Miguel Canto
    Ricardo Lopez
     
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  8. ChrisJS

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    Manuel Ortiz would crack the top 10 but nobody else would have a shot IMO.
     
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  9. ChrisJS

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    Marquez and Pacquaio are both all-time greats whereas Barrera is but Jones was just a good fighter.
     
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