Pick the worst 40-0 record .

Deontay wilder

 

You left out that he beat the seasoned Adrian Arreola in his previous fight.

He also fought several guys who had over 40 fights (and winning records) on his road to 40-0.

Then, three fights after reaching 40-0, he won a World Title.

Yes, there are a good portion of "Mexican Taxi Driver" types in JC Chavez's early record - and even in non-title fights later on - but keeping so busy kept him sharp. It worked for him.

I like that you included a link to information that could be used to refute your argument.

Nice attempt at cherry picking, though.

BTW: Chavez was a GREAT champion, not a "great" champion.

The guy proved himself to be an ATG.

That you put quotations around great gives one the inkling you probably do not like the guy if the fact you chose to make this thread didn't already indicate it.

 

LOL

Awesome post.

Case closed. End thread

BTW: He was 21, not 20. But, I see your point. And it is a good one.

 

By your logic he should have gone for the title in his pro debut. Nice "logic." Who do you think this guy was, Pete Rademacher?

When Chavez was getting started n the pro game, Mexicans by and large turned pro early and had a lot of fights while they learned on the job. Chavez was no exception.

They didn't take the Davey Moore or Leon Spinks route to short term success, but long term failure.

 

well i did exagerrate, fair point.

 

BUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMM SQQQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

 

Brian Neilson
Joe Calzaghe
Dariuz Mickelchesky

 

Julio Cesar Chavez's unbeaten run is a lie anyway, as noted of boxrec he had a dq loss, but strings were pulled to change it to a win.

 

Lamar Clark 42-0
Don Steele 41-0 1 no contest

A whole lot of fighters there without a pulse.

 

40-0 Danish pastry Nielsen would go life and death with Bum Squad, no?

 

Lowry was a boogeyman defensive spoiler that nobody liked to fight.
Mayweather said that Augustus was his toughest opponent. Augustus doesn't have a much better record.

 

The wild thing is, the guy JC fought just before the debutante in his 41st bout was actually his first notable step up in class. He fought Adriano Arreola for #40, and not only did Arreola sport a better looking record quantitatively than all 35 of his predecessors (in 39 contests; JC rematched Andres Felix, Jesus Cuate Lara, Benjamin Abarca & Jerry Lewis in that span) he also was of simply much higher quality stock: in the year before he fought Chávez, the Angeleno had dealt both future lightweight champ Juan Nazario and 13-0 L.A. prospect Mark Davis their first pro defeats - and then 1½ years after he fought Chávez, he would score a career-best victory knocking out Lupe Pintor.

Minor nit to pick but still an important distinction; you can't evaluate the 40-0 closely and with a shred of intellectual honesty claim it was an indistinguishable blur of no-marks. You can say that of the first 39, but you have to put Arreola in a class above them.

But then, yes, immediately after notching his first serious win he goes and picks on poor Armando Flores, with a forty to zero bout disparity in experience. Kind of ridiculous.

 

**** never mind, I kept meaning to come in here and post that since last night but I see that Saad54 already beat me to it.