I also have Cuevas in my Duran career set. I don't see anything particularly special, and his record is absolute ****. He fought nothing but 2-18 guys for this first twenty fights, stepped up to Andy Price and lost, then somehow got a title shot. He beat some fair to middling competition, stepped up to Hearns and got slaughtered in two. Then he lost to Duran, Roger Stafford and a whole pack of other mediocre fighters. You can try making Pipino some ATG fighter if you want, in order to sustain your Duran masturbation sessions, but we have video. We have boxrec. Zab in a walk over the somewhat better than average (for a brief time) Cuevas.
I doubt if there are two other people in this thread besides me who've even SEEN Pipino Cuevas fight.
If Judah was put up against Post-Heans Cuevas, then Zab would probably win by a decision. Cuevas was never the same after Hearns annihilated him. But looking back at the vintage Cuevas, only clever boxing Randy Shield went the distance with him. Judah is a superb boxer no doubt, but he tends to fade and implode late in the fight. Cuevas by mid-round TKO. Probably much more violent than how Tszyu KO'd him.
Pipino turned pro at THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. You can throw out most of the losses early in his careeer. He had a relatively short prime. The Hearns fight was bull**** because the canvas was so slippery the commission shouldn't have allowed it (look at the Shavers-Cobb fight on the undercard, like they were on ice skates), and Hearns had rubber shoes so he could plant and Cuevas could barely stand. (That being said, Hearns probably knocks him out anyway, but not so quickly and easily.) The Cueavas from 1976-79 would destroy punk ***** Zab.
Bernie just shut the **** up about things you have no clue about..its not that hard, you look like less of an idiot that way. I dont know how many times you have to be enlightened about things before you actually listen..you are one of the most narrow minded, misinformed boxrec warriors on this site.