Who Was Greater Sanchez Or Pedroza?

I dont know the details about the injured man stroty and sure, it is bad sportsmanship to mock when opponents are down, something Roy Jones used to do too but gets no hate for it.

Amazing that with bad fundamentals, terrible balance (which was the main reason for his knockdowns), he earned his status as a true monster at featherweight, and one we'd have beating some great featherweights...well those who don't let hate cloud judgement.

 

What was suspect about Hamed's chin? Very rarely was he ever legitimately hurt in his career. His knockdowns were almost always the result of the poor balance that you referenced yourself. The fact that he wasn't hurt more often in his career (despite often putting himself in the sort of positions where he was most vulnerable) is, if anything, a testament to a solid chin.

 

Agreed.

 

I didn't say he was a puncher. I said he could hit hard. Kinda like Rubin Carter. Anyway let it not be forgotten that Pedroza hit LaPorte in the balls about 999 times in that fight.

 

OT:

Probably a thread somewhere on it ... but couldn't easily find it ...

but, wonder what the prevailing prognostication is on the career arc and complete development of a SS if his time was not cut short.

At 23 he still had physical changes ahead, craft development/improvement, and at 5'7" wonder where he would have ended or maxed ... superlight/light welter perhaps or just light?

Would there have been Chavez vs Sanchez at super feather by '85 or so?

While essentially too late for Arguello and Duran ... lots of great fights might have occurred ... which ones would have been memorable?

Could he even still be around for Whittaker at lightweight in '90?

What's his eventual evolution based off of what he had done by 23, what one perceives of his athletic capabilities, and how does he fair from '83 to say the early '90s with the comp that was around?

Or, throw me an address if all of this was hashed out years ago and I'll just give it a glance again.