Ten best Puerto Rican fighters ever:

Good list.

Might add:

Hector Camacho
There are those who still don't take Camacho seriously because of his persona and ring style, but the Camacho who tore through a pair of divisions in the early 1980s was a very good fighter. He beat Rafael Limon, Rafael Solis, Jose Luis Ramirez, Freddie Roach and others. Even later on he was still too good for Ray Mancini, Vinny Pazienza, Howard Davis and Greg Haugen (he also lost to Haugen). And he proved his heart once and for all when he lasted the distance with Julio Cesar Chavez, despite taking a terrific beating.

Wilfredo Vazquez
Vazquez was a three-division titleholder and one of the tougher featherweights around for the better part of the 1990s. He's one of a handful of fighters from the era with more than 50 career wins, and scored 41 knockouts by the time he was done. No one will ever mistake him for one of the great featherweights ever, but Vazquez did very well for himself with solid skills and a killer of a left hook. It's possible that he might have wrung out a few more wins had not the more athletically gifted Naseem Hamed come along when he did.

 

No Camacho?

I'll do a top 5.

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

 

I would add Camacho and Vazquez. I don't think Rosario should be above Felix Trinidad either.

 

Here's a top 6 in order:

1. Carlos Ortiz
2. Wilfred Benitez
3. Wilfredo Gomez
4. Felix Trinidad
5. Esteban DeJesus
6. Pedro Montanez

And here's another 6 in no order:

Coca Kid
Sixto Escobar
Jose Basora
Hector Camacho
Edwin Rosario
Jose Torres

 

Juan Laporte? Camacho is probably better than all of them. In his prime he was too fast to lay a hand on.

 

great lists,

my shot,

ortiz
gomez
benitez
trinidad
escobar
de leon
cotto
rosario
dejesus
torres

 

Ortiz is greater than gomez, no doubt about it. I kinda feel bad for camacho, when he was lightweight champ, i feel he would have beaten bramble and arroyo to unify the division but never got the chance. At 130, chacon didnt fight him and that would have been another huge name to his list. I think he would have beaten sam serrano too.

Carlos Ortiz is the most underrated ATG. I dont give a crap if he has losses to busso and lane when he was green. His lightweight resume is unreal. Just look at the people he beat from 1962-1967, hes the greatest boriqua hands down.

 

Unless your name was Edwin Rosario.

 

W/E Camacho still won that fight in my opinion, i dont know why everyone thinks rosario won just cuz he had a few good rounds where he seriously hurt camacho. Hector won the first 4 rounds easily and he took rounds 8-9. There were other rounds where you could have given it to him too. At most it was a draw, win for rosario? I dont think so.

 

Orlin Norris.

 

On top of that, ortiz's losses to laguna and teo cruz were split decisions in thier hometown. Ortiz has only been clearly beaten like 3 times in 70 fights. This man is a top 25 ATG.

 

He was CLEARLY beaten by Laguna.

 

I'm surprised everybody forgot about escalera and serrano, two top superfeatherweights.

 

Gomez has to be #1. At his peak, He dominated & whipped out the entire division & Vanquished the Great Zarate. Also he had won every fight to that point, by Knockout! AWESOME!
The Top Five: Wilfredo Gomez, Carlos Ortiz, Wifred Benitez, Felix Trinidad, Wilfredo Vazquez.