Who is the greatest Mexican fighter of all time?

[JOM'S]

coming from Asia as a kid growing up, names like Chaves, Sanchez & Lopez always comes to my mind as great Mexican fighters and very well known around the world.....

[jabsRstiff]

Salvador Sanchez's win over Azumah Nelson has a big ol' asterisk next to it.

Nelson had THIRTEEN fights....& was a last minute sub. Yet, he pushed Sanchez to the limit.
There's no doubt, Nelson developed into one of the best fighters of this generation.
In fact.....I rate him as a greater fighter than Sanchez, & had they met again a year or two down the road, Nelson would have beaten Sanchez.

[Lefthookhappy19]

Sanchez was usually a slow starter, he took his time to get into the Nelson fight but then he started to break him down. Nelson may have been green but he was still pretty good, also an unknown. He had turned pro after an almost unbeaten amatuer career.

[jabsRstiff]

Sanchez was usually a slow starter, he took his time to get into the Nelson fight but then he started to break him down. Nelson may have been green but he was still pretty good, also an unknown. He had turned pro after an almost unbeaten amatuer career.

O.K....just don't let me ever hear you knock a guy like Trinidad for facing Vargas or Reid.

[rsl]

Y'all wanna know what makes any great mexican fighters hair crawl up their backs...... Pernell " Sweet Pea" Whitaker! We can go on and on as to which Mexican fighter is the greatest, but none of 'em can even be competitive with Whitaker in their primes.

[jabsRstiff]

Y'all wanna know what makes any great mexican fighters hair crawl up their backs...... Pernell " Sweet Pea" Whitaker! We can go on and on as to which Mexican fighter is the greatest, but none of 'em can even be competitive with Whitaker in their primes.

Whitaker beat one GREAT Mexican, that's all.

[rsl]

Whitaker beat one GREAT Mexican, that's all.

Yeah and that happens to be the Greatest Mexican fighter in alot of people's opinion( cause I don't consider Chavez really winnng that fight with Whitaker)including mine. I don't think any other great mexican fighter would've fared any better against Whitaker.

[jabsRstiff]

Yeah and that happens to be the Greatest Mexican fighter in alot of people's opinion( cause I don't consider Chavez really winnng that fight with Whitaker)including mine. I don't think any other great mexican fighter would've fared any better against Whitaker.

There weren't really any GREAT Mexicans, throughout history, in the weight classes that Whitaker went through.

Jose Napoles was a Cuban-born Mexican....who would have had a great chance at beating Whitaker. Whitaker at 147, was never unbeatable, at all.

[tony]

If Sanchez wouldn't have been taken away from us so early then maybe he'd have outshone Chavez. But as it stands Julio Cesar Chavez has got to be considered as the all time best. He was at the top for so long.

[Keleneki]

JC Chavez, although these is a good chance that it would have been Salvador Sanchez, if he didn't pass away so suddenly and unexpectedly. What a sad thing that was.