Pick a fighter who deserves the WAR cap

Wasn't escupada the guy who broke Katsidis' jaw?

 

Well, if you don't read my Tommy Hearns thread I won't ever speak to you.

 

YES!

I was just about to say, while Chente's overall KO ratio looks middling on paper, he was heavy-handed as hell - and was still on the back-end of his prime when he fought Ruiz (that prime would soon be beaten out of him by deep-cutting weight bully Adrien Broner). He was coming directly off a three-knockdown first-round blitz of Lonnie Smith, and before that a 10 round UD over Rocky Juárez in which he actually knocked the iron-chinned Rocky down... and had in the previous couple of years fought competitively in losses to Robert Guerrero (hurting him late) and Michael Katsidis (yes, dislocating his jaw with a punch) and had savaged a faded "Flushing Flash" Kevin Kelly into retirement with a KO2.

Escobedo threw the kitchen sink @ Ruiz for ten rounds, and the little maniac just kept plowing ahead slow & steady, blocking shots with his face, and ripping the body whenever he could.

 

I read your article. And damn ****ing right Hearns was Brit level!

 

What a knob. Can't be doing that to my boy. Not whilst he's shot.

Yeah, Chente got my respect big time vs Katsidis, the guy was as tough they come and took his beating like a man.

 

GlenThe Road Warrior' Johnson anybody? Certainly tough enough and had absolutely zero quit in him and took his licks, and dodgy losses without too much complaint.

 

Omg yes!

 

Saoul Mamby is a warrior through and through.

Merqui Sosa was an animal too.

 

Fair shout about the complaining, I was trying to be respectful but, yeah he did go on a bit

 

That fight is pretty much exemplary of who & what Johnny was in the ring, every night out. In that last ten years of his career, despite being essentially a professional loser, he shoehorned his way into my esteem by taking a freakish accumulation of respectably heavy blows from respectably decent opposition. If you scan his record, yeah, it may not be a who's-who in his weight range and era of massive punchers or world-class elites, but they are pretty much all solid prospect/contender types, and hardly any you'd term feather-fists. He's a case of, yeah, he maybe never stood up to a true A+ puncher - but there's abundant evidence of him taking hit after hit from guys in the B range (and even A minus here and there) - and he barely ever blinked @ them, nor broke his stride! The argument for him is based more on the way he took punches from 'good, not great' fighters/punchers - and the sheer, almost sickening amount of them, hardly ever bothering to slip or block any.

As everyone knows, I've watched a fuck-ton of live boxing in the last twenty years - and nobody, IMO, has a claim to "king of p4p chin" in that span like El Fenix does.