Who do you rate higher?

Ricardo Lopez is the most underrated boxer ever

 

I don't know about THE most underrated, but he definitely doesn't get the props he should...if he had been two or three weight classes up, he would.

 

Joe Calzaghe, unfortunately.

Ricardo Lopez, for all of his ability and dominant victories as a Minimumweight, can't even claim to have fought and beat one great fighter in his entire professional career. He operated in a barren wasteland and for whatever reason decided not to make the move up to Light Flyweight when Gonzalez and Carbajal were at the peak of their careers. It's hurt his overall standing in my view, he didn't live up to his potential.

Joe Calzaghe doesn't have an impressive resume either by contemporary standards, but he does hold victories over Mikkel Kessler and Bernard Hopkins, two better wins than anything on Lopez's record in my estimation.

 

Joe Calzaghe.

 

If Lopez had been two or three weight classes above what he actually was then he wouldn't have retired undefeated. I'm confident of that.

 

He got a gift draw in the 1st Alvarez fight.

 

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Looked like another day at the office for Lopez until he got knocked down.

 

Lopez, one of the best pure boxers ever seen. excellent skills and power. for six or seven years, you could argue that he was the best fighter in the world, period.
It doesn't take a scientist to understand why Lopez was so great.

as for Calzaghe, well, the name sounds familiar. i'm sure his nationality will give him some extra votes here at ESB

 

When are you thinking Lopez had a legitimate argument for being rated the best P4P fighter on the planet? Was it after his victory over Myung Sup Park or Kwang Soo Oh? Never heard of them? Me neither.

I wouldn't describe Lopez as being a pure boxer either, he was knocking out the majority of his challengers.

 

why is that :huh ?

 

Finito.

 

Opposition beaten

Ricardo Lopez...VS....Joe Calzaghe
Zolani Petelo..............Mikkel Kessler
Ratanapol Sor Vorapin..Bernard Hopkins
Rosendo Alvarez..........Roy Jones Jr
Alex Sanchez..............Robin Reid
Saman Sorjaturong......Chris Eubank
Will Grigsby.................Jeff Lacy
Kermin Guardia.............Byron Mitchell
Hideyuki Ohashi............Charles Brewer


Achievements in World Titles won

Felix Trinidad: Campaigned in 2 Weight classes

- MMW: WBC, WBO, WBA
- LFW: IBF

Joe Calzaghe: Campaigned in 2 Weight Classes

- SMW: WBO, IBF, WBA, WBC, The Ring
- LHW: The Ring

Other Stats:

Former world champions beaten:

Ricardo Lopez: 5 (Yun Lee, Melchor, Sanchez, Vorapin, Petelo)
Joe Calzaghe: 7 (Eubank, Reid, Woodhall, Brewer, Mitchell, Hopkins, Jones Jr)

Reigning World Champions beaten:

Ricardo Lopez: 4 (Ohashi, Sanchez, Alvarez, Grigsby)
Calzaghe: 2 (Lacy, Kessler)

Future World Champions beaten:

Ricardo Lopez: 5 (Ohashi, Sorjaturong, Guardia, Alvarez, Grigsby)
Joe Calzaghe: 1 (Kessler)

 

Finito