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

I quite like this thread. There's generally two sides of the Perez-argument, and McGrain is doing a good job holding the fort for his. But TBH I agree with Bujia, Perez's résumé is paper thin for someone with his status, and I always find stacked résumés as the most important part of evaluating greatness. Although I do think he beat a crop of fighters which were much, much better than say, Lopez's competition.

I tend to agree that Perez shouldn't really be rated top five, but going undefeated for like 60 fights, beating the second most ranked fighters of any flyweight, being lineal (twice, right?) and showing an amazing skillset overall means I wouldn't argue profusely with any placement.

I actually asked McGrain quite a similar question in the Survey thread, and these were the ranked fighters he named:

Sadoa Yaoita (1), Dommy Ursua (5), Ramon Arias (1), Young Martin (2), Dai Dower (2), Oscar Suarez (7), Espinosa (2), Danny Kid (3), Yoshio Shirai (ch.).

I was quite impressed by some of those guys.