Ricardo Lopez v Humberto Gonzalez in Febuary 1994

would you pick him to beat carbajal and arbachov?

 

Saman was a limited fighter with little going for him other than a huge right-hand.He fought mostly cans as champion and looked continually mediocre.

Lopez win was impressive, but not against a great fighter by any means.

 

I think he was an excellent fighter in terms of technical skill.

The problem is he mostly fought very poor competition so it can be difficult to judge just how good he really was.

He isn't alone in having this problem among the lighter weight fighters by any means, but does seem to get more of a pass than most.

 

We've had this discussion before, but I don't think that Lopez's competition was as horrid as some would have you belive. Alvarez at his best was a damned fine fighter, who I think stays with pretty much any junior flyweight in history. Will Grigsby wasn't at all bad...and neither was Zolani Potelo. Rocky Lin and Ala Villamor were decent enough contenders and they were both obliterated. Ditto Alex "Nene" Sanchez.

Was his competition great? Not by any stretch of the imagination...but, by and large the best fighters that he faced (outside of Alvarez) were handled just as conclusively as the also-rans.

 

I wanted to see this bout transpire as well. I think at that point Gonzalez was definately on the other side of the mountain and that's a real real tall task to beat a guy like Lopez.

I think Lopez takes the guy apart in there. That's probably my personal favorite boxing result---watch a champion take a high caliber fighter apart systematically for like 7 to 9 rounds.

Lopez throws every punch in the book and even had a picture perfect left uppercut, which hardly anyone has in recent times. I think that is a punch that the Gonzalez defense is going to have a tough time with. It's a nasty punch and he didn't throw often so opponents never got a bead on it. I think Lopez puts on a clinic and stops the old warrior who takes a real drubbing in there.

 

Yeah, it's true he could hardly have been more convincing in defeating them.Can't fault him there at all.

That is one area where he has it over other talented fighters like Watanabe, Galaxy, Canizales and others.

Those men sometimes managed to struggle with mediocre fighters or turned in the odd poor performance.Lopez was very very dedicated.