Pascual Perez vs Ramon Arias Title Bout Highlights - 1958-04-19 - 4'11 Argentinian Flyweight Marvel

Perez was rated 36th in a list of the greatest fighters in the last 50 years, compiled by the ring magazine in 1996, he went unbeaten for his first 51 bouts.

 

Gday Russell, gracias for the great video.

When I was a boxing mad little kid in the early to mid1970s Perez had a massive reputation as a great fighter, he was considered to be almost on the level of Eder Jofre.

Geezus he had a big motor and he was always the smaller guy in his fights.

Cheers Mate.

 

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Cheers Russ,

Perez was a great champion no doubt, like a tiny, faster version of Marciano. Always bursting in and out from underneath with fast, hard punches from unusual angles. He dethroned a very good champion in Shirai and globetrotted to dominantly beat a number of world class challengers, though I think his high rep comes from how good he looked rather than who he beat. It took an excellent fighter in Kingpetch to eventually oust him when he was faded in an either way type fight that some consider a bad decision, though I've never thought that myself.

Arias was a good fighter himself, very tough and seasoned against a variety of opposition. He had a good run at bantam too, culminating in a title shot against Jofre, though he was beaten up comprehensively.

 

I'm good thanks. I think I've got bipolar disorder or something where boxing is concerned; I can go months without being bothered and then dive back in at the deep end when the mood takes me. Weird.

I think a lot of fighters at fly from days gone by might struggle to establish the same rep these days. Minimum and light-fly are pointless, talent-weak divisions imo that have just diluted flyweight, only made worse by the proliferation of the mickey mouse belts and the fact that unification fights seem rare in the lower divisions. Look how long a phenom like Gonzalez wasted fighting at minimumweight; it's easy to see a tiny guy of Perez's stature being convinced to do similar. Weight draining cheats and the 24 hour weigh in would only give him extra incentive when he was considerably smaller than all his opponents back in the day of same weigh-ins. That said, he was a great talent and genuine bad-arse roadwarrior who took on all comers, so you'd hope the same might apply in the modern day if his team and promoter didn't coddle him. Might be that he'd win belts from minimum through to fly but struggle above that because of his size where he'd be facing guys who are essentially featherweights and bigger, though largely not in his class ability-wise.