Why does Pascual Perez’s paper thin resume continue to get a pass?

He's not challenged because he defeated more ranked contenders than any other flyweight in all of history, bar one.

It's true he didn't share the era with men worthy of his opposition, but he trampled the division. On three occasions he defeated the best flyweight in the world excepting himself, which is very rare. Basically he did everything that a fighter should be called upon to do when he only has a weak division to dominate.

You'll see Carlos Zarate atop the bantamweight division here and there - literally number one - and he did less than Perez i'd say.

 

I'll look forward to that.

Yaoita, Ursua, Arias, Martin, Dower, Suarez, Espinosa, Kid, Shirai were all made men when he met them. Suarez is the only one i'm not close to 100 percent on. You've got guys like Genaro who beat six, Oba (six), Kane (7), he's right there with guys like Lynch who equalled him and Wolgast who beat more.

How doe this head eating thing look?

He beat more men int he top five, more men in the top ten. Most of the men he took on were among the very best in the world when he met them.

You've confused a weakish era and a weak champ.

 

Benny Lynch defeated as many made men as Perez, I think. Wolgast beat more ranked contenders. He's the only flyweight who did so.

How many ranked guys did Lopez beat?

The problem I have with the general tone here (not that there's anything wrong with exploring it) is that defeating this number of contenders is extremely, extremely, extremely, widly rare. It doesn't happen. That's why in the 110 year history of flyweight you can count the number of men who have achieved it on one hand.

Perez destroyed the top five. Destroyed it. With a machine gun. You called his resume paper-thin - that is woefully inaccurate i'm afraid.

That said, he didn't share an era with any really heavy hitters and that should be acknowledged.

 

Ridiculous. Defeating nine contenders is "underwhelming"? That's an absurdity. It's a huge number. Massive. I hate to be rude about it but you seem not really to know much about this sort of thing? The number of fighters to hit double figures for Ring/TBRB ranked guys is absolutely minuscule.

Question away. I've already given you the names of many of the big hitters.

They were among the best fighters in the world in their weight division. Because he fought so many and because such a high proportion were in the top five, he's built himself a very decent resume. Mark Johnson, for example, beat fewer then half the contenders Perez did and never fought anyone - ever - in the top five.

Perez is made.