Just thought I'd share some things I'd picked up about Chavez from the Ring special. His 21 kos in world title fights is second all time behind Joe Louis 23. He won his first 25 world title fights, an all time record along with Louis and Cecilia Braekhus. He holds the all time record for most championship fights (37),as well as title fight victory s (31). The latter figure being more then the 27 achieved by olivares, Zarate and Sanchez - Combined. Chavez was the Ring s number one p4p fighter from June 1990 to December 1993.Thats 43 consecutive months. Just a few numbers there to give weight to just how brilliant that guy was.
Would have loved seeing him beat the overrated Floyd Mayweather from pillar to post. Something even his Vegas refs couldn't have prevented. Oh wait What am I thinking Floyd would never have fought him. He'd retire first
Floyd would have pizzed his pants getting in the ring, with Chavez. Two totally different fighters, chalk and cheese.
Yes, he probably was. Funny thing is, Tyson losing then Chavez stopping Taylor, gave JCC the coverage he deserved at the time and people realizing just how good he was.
Boy, was I wrong! I remember seeing JCC defend his super featherweight title against Dwight Pratchett on the first Holmes-Spinks fight undercard. At the time I knew very little about Chavez. I was looking forward to watching him because he was 47-0 and I had a friend who saw him blast out Roger Mayweather in two. My friend said Chavez was fantastic. Anyway, Pratchett went into the fight with a 13-6 record and I expected him to get stopped early. Instead Chavez won a decison by a wide margin but looked unspectacular. Afterword, I told my friend that he was wrong and that Chavez was good but nothing overly special. As I said, boy was I wrong! If Boxrec was around back then I would have seen that Pratchett had lost four of his previous eight fights. However, those losses were to Louie Espinoza, Jimmy Paul, Juan LaPorte and Meldrick Taylor. None of them stopped Pratchett either.
You’re talking nonsense again ferguson. Everyone already knew how good Chavez was when he beat Rosario in 87 to become lightweight champ.They didn’t have to wait till he beat Taylor 3 years later to see how good he was but Tyson was the undisputed year end p4p number one fighter from 87-89 with all the boxing media and fans.The last time that a heavyweight was ranked p4p no.1 so you’re wrong to say Chavez was the p4p no.1 before 1990.
Mexico's finest fighter. I remember a KO magazine article from '85, right after he crushed Mayweather the first time, the title of which was something like "Zarate, Olivares, Sanchez...……..now Chavez?" The insinuation was that while perhaps it was premature at that stage to lump him in with that crowd of legends, it was time to start considering the possibility soon. If they only knew.
a Great Fighter... oh and this - https://www.infobae.com/new-resizer...ng.com/infobae/C7DX5VO45NBWNJLBMGKUPXKJIQ.jpg
He's become kinda under rated and no doubt his late career actions like accepting the robbery rematch victory over Randall and the gift draw against Whitaker rubbed many like me the wrong way as he became a extremely well promoter, placated and even protected fighter .. however in his prime .. 130 and 135, he was an exceptional fighter .. a true great.
