Name your Top 5 Greatest Puerto Rican and Puerto Rican-American Boxers

no John John Molina?

 

Miguel isn't a Puerto Rican great.He's a good one in a long line of them.

i don't have a top 5, but De Jesus and Jose Basora should be seriously considered

 

no Miguel Cotto is a great...world champion...defeated another great fighter in Shane Mosley...beaten a lot of solid names...including possibly Margarito had he not loaded his gloves.

 

We have different standards i guess. Cotto is real good to me, not one of boxing's true greats at all.

 

Yea I agree,Cotto is a very ood boxer,but thats all he will ever be

Hes not a GREAT

 

1. Wilfredo Gomez
2. Felix Trinidad
3. Carlos Ortiz
4. Wilfred (not Wilfredo) Benitez
5. Esteban De Jesus

 

trinidad, gomez, benitez, rosario, camacho

 

I hold cotto in very high esteem, he has many good wins and the win over mosley is the icing on the cake. Id say hes very close to greatness, he just needs a comeback and to impress at 154. You have to appreciate a fighter like him though, he keeps on coming.

 

This is my exact list. Honorable mentions down the line:

Ivan Calderon
Miguel Cotto
Wilfredo Vazquez
Chapo Rosario
Macho Camacho

 

Ortiz is number 1 on my list personally.

 

Best PRs
Wilfredo Gomez
Wilfred Benitez
Carlos Ortiz
Felix Trinidad
Esteban Dejesus
Hector Camacho
Pedro Montanez
Edwin Rosario
John John Molina
Jose Basora
Sixto Escobar
Miguel Cotto
Jose Torres
Wilfredo Vasquez
Juan Laporte

 

Carlos Ortiz by a fair distance above the rest. After him you get to Gomez, Benitez, Trinidad, De Jesus, Montanez, Basora, Torres, Escobar, etc. Cocoa Kid was Cuban.

I'm still re-reading the first post over and over in the hopes that I may have missed something. Is Miguel Cotto actually ranked above Carlos Ortiz? I ask for just one bit of sound reasoning to justify it under any criteria and I'll leave it be.