The Best Julio Cesar Chavez Fights?

I've always loved his bouts with Edwin Rosario and Ruben Castillo. Both competitive until being ground down.

 

Whitaker fight. He got schooled after his victories over part time uber merchants.

 

Juan LaPorte fight was a close exciting fight, i thought Chavez edged it by a few rounds, but it was a highly competitive. The Rocky Lockridge fight was also competitive, Chavez breaks his hand early then has to box smartly for the rest of the fight.

 

It looks like he peaked in the Rosario fight

 

Greg Haugen described his opponents like that. Five rounds with Chavez - that's less than 15 minutes - later, he had really changed his opinion.

 

His resume is weak relatively with his ability. This is fact. His best opponents were Whitaker, De La Hoya and Taylor. He lost to two of them and two times to De La Hoya. He fought the real opponents after his 30.

 

He fought plenty of good fighters. He just made them look bad. For nine years, he was the standout fighter in three divisions and by some distance. Was everyone else just rubbish? In that nine years, was everyone else in his weight class, whichever he was in, an 'Uber driver'?

Seems a bit of a stretch to me.

 

There are some "OK" opponents on his resume but none of them are close to his level. People criticize his countryman and call high skilled fighters like Billy Joe Saunders as "cherrypicking". Just imagine what would be if Chavez fights right now? People would make fun of with him everyday.

 

The Mario Martinez fight is lots of fun, quite a slugfest actually. The Laporte bout is close and hotly contested. I always like reading scorecards for that one.

 

Chavez beat more top level fighters than almost any other Hall of Famers have over the last 50 years. He beat a prime Rosario, prime Ramirez, prime Taylor, prime Lockridge, prime Mayweather (twice), prime Laporte, prime Randall, Hall of Famer Hector Camacho, and blasted through a number of former champions like Tony Lopez and Greg Haugen like a hot knife through butter. Just because he preferred to take some tune up bouts in between his incredible 21 title defenses doesn't negate his obvious greatness. He was the epitome of consistency and tenacity for well over a decade. Criticizing his record is just evidence of Supreme ignorance.

 

Greg Haugen wouldn't.

You can't blame Chavez if he was at a much higher level than his opponents. That's because he was really, really good. And there was a much deeper talent pool when Chavez was fighting. There a lot more fighters so, ergo, there would have been more good quality fighters. Look at his resume and look at what some of those opponents did when they weren't fighting Chavez. They were actually good for the most part, often very good.

By the way, calling the likes of Rosario, Fuentes, Camacho, Taylor, Mayweather and many more over nine years 'OK' fighters while then describing Billy Joe Saunders as 'highly-skilled' shows a level of bias that can't really be argued with. Nobody is criticising Canelo's opposition - not in this thread at least. And I get that you really like him but you can do that without unfairly tearing down the hard-earned achievements of those who preceded him. It doesn't make Canelo look any better. Worse, in fact, if his supporters show a level of bias that borders on the downright ignorant. Makes their arguments in his favour look weaker.

 

Chavez probably beat a dozen fighters better than Saunders.

 

That’s like saying Sugar Ray Robinson wasn’t a great welterweight because he was above the level of his opponents.

JCC being above the level of so many of his opponents — the best of three weight divisions — is a testament to his greatness, not a knock against it.

 

Well wrote.
I'll say it like this Alvarez couldn't carry Chavez's drop strap. The one great fighter Alvarez faced schooled him. That fighters best fighting weight was at Jr. Light/ lightweight .
Insinuating Alvarez is on Chavez's level is like comparing the speed of a Yugo to a Hell Cat.
No comparison at all.