Where does Ricardo Lopez rank amongst Mexican's?

He completely dominated 105 and it's hard to say he was cherry-picking there; however, he waited until very late in his career to move up to 108, so the one huge fight that could have been made but never was made was with Michael Carbajal. Relatively, it was a good era for the little guys, keeping in mind that the talent pool will always be smaller at those weights and thus the mean level of competition usually isn't as high as it is around lightweight to light heavyweight.

As for being offensive, he was about as good of a textbook boxer as I can think of, and I'm pretty confident that if you blow him up in size, he would have been a dominant force in just about any weight class. Still, because he was in such a low weight class, his resume is somewhat lacking compared to a lot of others, which is why you usually see him in the 50 - 70 range on all-time lists. On a head to head basis, he's up there with the best of the last 30 years.

 

Top 50 ATG IMO

 

no.

 

not top 50 but better than mab and em...4th best mexican fighter and ranked higher than calzaghe simply because of overall ability which makes him a h2h demon

 

Agree

 

He is definitely top five when ranked with his fellow Mexican countrymen. I agree with everything Brickhaus said.

Ricardo Lopez is one of the guys you want to imitate if you want to start boxing.

 

Fantastic fighter who fought two great fights with "El Buffalo" Mendoza. He's definitely a top 100 all time.

 

Mendoza???

i think you meant Alvarez.

 

One of the most textbook fighters ever.

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Based on skills alone I would place Finito at the very top of that list.

He was cursed with a tiny frame and that(at least in part) prevented him from conquering more weight div.

 

He actually lost the first match with Alvarez, but got the nod.

 

it was a close one and i could see having Alvarez ahead but the fight was in mexico and they probably feared that a riot would happen if they had given it to Alvarez.