Was Hector Camacho the best pure boxer of the last 40 years?

The truth hurts don't it?

 

Prefer Sugar Ray Leonard, Hearns, and Donald Curry
Camacho was more just a speedster

 

hector was 35 pounds above his prime weight-leonard only two pounds over his and he is a bigger man anyways. If you look at Hector's previous fight with Duran, anyone can see Hector fought flatfooted throughout and lost to Roberto while Leonard a decade before beat Duran convincingly and did it by sticking, moving, landing the combinations and scoring a shutout--vintage Ray Leonard so how could he be shot?

Hector would have beat the pants off anyone in his prime including Pernell who could never hurt him or hope to outbox him. Chavez definitely ducked him preferring instead to face the Roger mayweathers and Juan Laporte's of the world, people with embarrasingly spotty records. And Leonard would have no hope against Hector whatsoever.

DLH? Yes, with his determination, damaging power in both hands and fantastic hand speed, prime Oscar would defintiely make a fight of it but Oscar was not strictly a boxer. He could get hector in trouble but like the Rosario fight, would probably pull it out on the scorecards for a split decision.

 

Hector's prime was at 112 pounds, that's what you're telling me?

Hector's previous fight with Duran showed him outboxing a shot Duran, he didn't even lose the fight. Odd that you don't even know the facts of your hero.

A faded Leonard beat a shot Duran in 89, and by 91 he was clearly shot, anyone with an IQ above around 45 who watched the fight and his lack of mobility would see this. Unfortunately, you don't qualify.

 

no one has ever proven that Leonard was shot at all by 1991. All you are doing is claiming he was shot and that proves nothing to me.

As for his lack of mobility, this is attributed to the fact he was in against a faster man (Ferdie Pacheco has said as much) which forced him into the role of the aggressor which we all know he does not do particularly well (as seen in the Hearns and Larry Bonds fight)

Leonard was forced to stalk his man and take the fight to him and played right into Norris (faster) hands and was countered into defeat. Don't you know anything about boxing? I know your knowledge of 80's boxing is rather limited but you should know that when one speedster is forced to face a faster, quicker speedster, he will look very bad in losing a decision. Look at the past evidence: Hector Camacho v. Howard Davis, Hector Camacho v. Greg Coverson.

And if you can count you'd know Hector's prime weight was 130. 165-130 = 35. Do the math.

 

Robbi brought up his fight with De La Hoya, which took place at 147 pounds, not 165.

 

Thanks for the schooling.

 

That might be the gayest boxing pic i have ever seen.

 

he was'nt even the best pure boxer of his era.

Pure boxing skills means that you can put up a good boxing performance without having a huge physical advantage like speed.