Latin America's Greatest Fighter(s)

[Panamaniac]

Latin America has produced some of the most colorful, exciting, explosive and iconic fighters in Boxing history. Excluding these fighters would leave a void that would drastically reduce the status of the sport.

The above poll represents my top 10 by rank, please vote for your top 5 on the poll and - if you're so inclined - list your top 5 or 10 on your post.

Honorable Mention:

• Salvador Sanchez*
• Eusebio Pedroza
• Antonio Cervantes
• Kid Gavilan
• Pascual Perez
• Ricardo Lopez
• Wilfred Benitez
• Panama Al Brown**
• Ismael Laguna
• Carlos Ortiz

*Gone too soon
**First Latin American champion

[Panamaniac]

#3 on the poll is a typo, the last name is MONZON (not Monzin)

[taansend]

Originally Posted by Panamaniac

Latin America has produced some of the most colorful, exciting, explosive and iconic fighters in Boxing history. Excluding these fighters would leave a void that would drastically reduce the status of the sport.

The above poll represents my top 10 by rank, please vote for your top 5 on the poll and - if you're so inclined - list your top 5 or 10 on your post.

Honorable Mention:

• Salvador Sanchez*
• Eusebio Pedroza
• Antonio Cervantes
• Kid Gavilan
• Pascual Perez
• Ricardo Lopez
• Wilfred Benitez
• Panama Al Brown**
• Ismael Laguna
• Carlos Ortiz

*Gone too soon
**First Latin American champion

Mr Panamaniac,

Do you include Brazil as Latin America & if so, have you heard of Eder Jofre?

If not, have a look at him. He definitely deserves to be on everyones list (in my humble opinion). He truly was a marvel.

I'll have to have a think about the rest of my list but the obvious ones are (in no order) Chavez, Monzon, Duran, Arguello, W Gomez, Benitez, S Sanchez & Zarate.

The tenth & final spot is up for grabs And there are many, many, many choices.

[taansend]

Ah, just saw your poll & he is on the list. Good .

I couldn't pick a top five. Would not be fair....

[Vsec]

1. Duran
2. Chavez
3. Kid Chocolate
4. Eder Jofre
5. Monzon
6. Mantequilla Napoles
7. Alexis Arguello
8. Ruben Olivares
9. Kid Gavlian
10. Salvador Sanchez


no.10 is hard for me. how about a three way tie between Sanchez-Pascual Perez and Panama Al-Brown

[IronDanHamza]

Carlos Ortiz is in the top 10.

[rightsideup]

jose torres

[Panamaniac]

Glaring omission in the discussion (if you want to call it that): FELIX TRINIDAD...

Sorry, Tito.

[SBleeder]

How in the world could you leave out Wilfredo Gomez!?!?!

[Panamaniac]

Originally Posted by SBleeder

How in the world could you leave out Wilfredo Gomez!?!?!

If I could forget Tito, I could forget anyone... <-but that aside, this thread is not a 'who's who' of Latin fighters, consequently, any number of names could be omitted. This is about the elite fighters in the opinion of the thread-starter and that of others.