Rank your TOP-5 Puerto Rican boxers of all time

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  1. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    I haven't read this thread... but the correct answer coming from a Puerto Rican is...

    1. Carlos Ortiz
    2. Wilfredo Gomez
    3. Wilfred Benitez
    4. Felix Trinidad
    5. Dejesus

    Camacho, Cotto, Rosario and Calderon are honorable mentions. Don't think Cotto is a top fighter after the brick scandal though, he had the potential to be before.
     
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  2. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    horrible list
     
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  3. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Juan Manuel Lopez....really??
     
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  4. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The top 4 is so obvious for me maybe not the order but the four guys. Seeing Tito not on some of these lists is sad. There’s no case for him not being top 4.
     
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  5. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ortiz (can’t believe he is not consensus, oh well)


    Gomez/Benitez

    Trinidad
    Camacho

    Dejesus/Escalera
     
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  6. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Wales. Wales is absurd.

    Wilde
    Welsh
    Calzahge
    Driscoll
    West

    Sick, sick ****. Population is 3.1m.
     
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  7. Flash24

    Flash24 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Gomez, Benitez, Trinidad,Ortiz, Camacho. But if we went on just potential, Camacho should've been better than all of them, even Gomez.
     
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  8. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah, Wales has an incredible top 4 or 5 but there’s been a very small amount of Welsh champions compared to Puerto Rico. Their top 4s are perhaps about equal but then after that Puerto Rico has far more quality but then again the Welsh were very prominent before Latinos were barely in the game. Puerto Rico has been more prominent in an era with more titles. I think Puerto Rico is about #4 on the list of most champions and the same for Hall of gamers with a little over a dozen I believe.

    Panama, Cuba too are in the discussion but are around 10m populations.
     
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  9. Flo_Raiden

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    I'd put Jose Torres or Esteban DeJesus over Juanma. Juanma was never that great of a fighter, let alone one of the best PR fighters.
     
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  10. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Benitez belongs above Camacho and Cotto.
    Any title Camacho won above 135 was bogus
     
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