Salvador Sanchez vs Floyd mayweather DREAM FIGHT!

Won't happen because:

1) Take the tests
2) Leave your promoter/management/wife/kids/family/country
3) Join TMT
4) Accept $2 million while I take everything else and 100% of the PPV sales
5) Impregnate Miss Trashson under three days

 

Sanchez, after watching what I could of his career, seems to me vastly overrated (as Donaire was) because he was excellent in the biggest fights of his career - that destruction of Gomez is the claim to fame of Sanchez even as a puncher - normally he had a smooth style, never tired, and didn't punch hard, content to slow the action and box for 15 rounds if necessary.

Azumah Nelson was extremely green when they fought.

If Barrera had never fought Junior Jones and beaten Hamed, then died, he would be called the greatest featherweight of all time by just deleting some moments in his career, moments Sanchez would have faced if he lived longer.

Except for the big fights, Sanchez bored me and I don't think he was explosive enough to trouble Floyd at all ... Pac, for all his technical shortcomings, is way more explosive, hard hitting, and relentless than Salvador.

Small guys back then had short primes - it is crazy to see Gomez fight at 32-34, a fat sloppy off balance guy. It looks like his balance was all youthful athleticism, and it abandoned him, unlike guys with longevity like Floyd, Hopkins, or even Azumah Nelson.

Floyd should be able to stymie that smooth counter punching easily, textbook boxers are worthless against Floyd - you need an unorthodox guy like Hatton to crowd him and make him uncomfortable, someone who ups the pace instead of slows it down.

 

I always disagree when people say Sanchez fought down the the level of his opposition. I don't believe that to be true at all. They point to Cowdell and Castillo and Ford and say "AHA" but it's more of a styles thing, really. Those guys were cagey movers and counterpunchers, a style that always gave Sanchez trouble. This is true of a lot of natural counterpunchers, as Sanchez was a great one himself. Therefore, I see no reason to say he "fought down" to anybody. Let's not forget though, when analyzing these things, that he did beat these guys. That sometimes gets lost in translation. Those fights are talked about as losses as often as not, which is kind of funny.

Given all of that, I think the smart betting guy has to go with the little douchebag Mayweather. Terrible stylistic matchup for Sanchez. Doesn't speak to which one was greater or any of that blah blah, but above all else, styles make fights.


Odd idea anyway, as Sanchez was a featherweight. They always talk about what could have been at higher weights, but that's nothing but supposition. Mayweather wopuld have been much bigger than him anyway.

 

5 years old, when he died right? you ass!

 

Though I give Sanchez a lot of credit and he definitely earned my respect as a fighter beating Lopez and Gomez.
However, he would never had beat Gomez had he not partied getting his nut off during camp and the week of the fight!!!!

He took this unknown way TOO lightly!!!!!!

 

Salvador Sanchez is considered by many to be the best boxer p4p of all time.

His only "loss" was a bad decision. He beat Wilfredo Gomez who was the undefeated n1 p4p fighter in the world at the time.

Sanchez was a careful and strategic stalker, not a bar-room brawler. Floyd would have retired temporarily to avoid him (like he did to avoid Margarito and Paul Williams).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW7HbLAuTRo

 

Salvador Sanchez was a great young and upcoming fighter. His biggest wins were against Gomez and a very green, raw Azumah nelson who gave him a helluva fight at Madison Square Garden. pretty much everyone else on Salvador's resume was a tomato can, he fought a bunch of nobodies in Mexico kind of in the same manner as Canelo Alvarez or a young JCC Sr.

Eventually he would have made his way up to super featherweight. I wouldn't give him anything more than a 20% shot at beating FLoyd at 130 lbs.

if anyone saw Floyd fight at 130 they'd recognize him as being the greatest ever in that division. He has much better footwork than Salvador, better handspeed, he had a good amount of power at 130, and Salvador wouldn't know what to do against a defensive genius like Floyd as he hadn't ever seen anything remotely like him when Sanchez was alive and fighting.

I don't favor anyone over FLoyd at 130 and that includes the great Alexis Arguello and Azumah Nelson. 12 or 15 rounds it wouldn't matter, Floyd has got the stamina and skillset to defeat basically anyone at that weightclass. Salvador was a great Mexican fighter although he is a bit overrated considering his resume was cut so short at such a young age. Floyd is an ATG who has wiped out 5 divisions since becoming a prizefighter and he seemingly is getting better after every fight.

 

Well I'm assuming you don't know how to do basic/rudimentary math so I'll help you out here: Floyd was just a child when Salvador was fighting.

if you were trying to take a shot at Floyd (which I know you were,) you'd know that he was the fighter of the year by his 3rd year as a professional fighter, a universally recognized P4P stalwart and he beat a guy who had never lost in the 130 lb weightclass in Genaro Hernandez.

 

It's been over 30 yrs and Puerto Ricans still:|

All you needed to complete this picture is to claim Sanchez got a lucky punch!

 

:rofl I knew it

 

Floyd wins to big to fast to good a defense Sanchez has his moments but Floyd wins a UD.

 

No lucky punch!!!!

Sanchez punished Gomez!

 

No lucky punch...he punished Gomez!!!

 

Its MVC, he'll say that no matter who the you said was fighting his precious Floyd.