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In fact, I'm wondering if you're just completely taking the piss now. I mean, c'mon, how can you possibly pretend not to know Jose 'Mantequilla' Napoles? Not only that but you say he hasn't done **** compared to Oscar?
Ok, a brief summary for you on how Oscar doesn't even come close to comparing to Napoles. He was absolutely one of the great, and obviously forgotten, underrated fighters of all time.
As the GreatA said, he made thirteen defenses of his WW title, but, this was in a time when there was one main champion, only the WBC and WBA belts and all contenders fought for that main championship. Now, not only did he defend it thirteen times but he defended the undisputed ie. he held both titles, thirteen times.
He was also already 29 when he won those titles and had fought the best the sport had to offer for 11 long years before finally getting the shot at the great champion Curtis Cokes who himself was the undisputed WW champ and made six great defenses of that title over three years, which more or less equals Oscar's title run at WW in fact.
In those eleven years he fought some truly great fighters, among them was the great Mexican lightweight Alfredo Urbina, Carlos Hernandez, 'Baby' Vasquez, LC Morgans, Adolph Pruitt, Eugenio Espinoza, etc etc.
He finally got his shot and beat Cokes, also beating him in the rematch both times by stoppage in the 13th. He would then go on to fight the legendary WW HOF'er Emille Griffith, winning a fifteen round UD before taking on the number one contender (who would have been a titlist in today's boxing world of ABC titles mind you) and brilliant fighter Ernie 'Indian Red' Lopez. He beat him in Lopez' only two title shots.
He then took on Billy Backus and the fight was given to Backus after a clash of heads opened a cut on Napoles too severe to continue. Napoles then stopped him in the rematch in eight.
After this would come a slew of great title defenses against incredible opposition. Hedgemon Lewis 51-3 x 2, Ralph Charles 39-3, Adolph Pruitt 44-10 (while the record may not seem impressive by today's standards, Pruitt was a great fighter of the day who beat many fantastic fighters and champions and was one of the top fighters for years), Roger Menetrey 49-4, Clyde Gray 40-2 ( Gray was one of Canada's brilliant fighters, beating fighters such as Marcel Cerdan Jr, Donato Paduano, but is best known for losing to a rising 15-0 Tommy Hearns when he was about thirty five or something), Horacio Saldano 50-4, Armando Muniz 39-8 and in his last fight against one of Britain's best world champs John Stracey.
But, in between Gray and Saldano he moved up to take on the undisputed middleweight king Carlos Monzon too, in a losing effort obviously as he was about half his size.
Nonetheless, with an eventual record of 79-7, thirteen title defenses of his undisputed WW crown, won when he was already 29 in 1969 and then finally losing to Stracey in Dec of 1975, as well as many other great wins over champions and other great fighters he was truly one of the greatest WW's to ever fight and well above Oscar.
Oscar made a solid seven defenses, among them his best wins were against Whitaker, Chavez (albeit an old one), Quartey (his best WW win in my opinion), but his other title fights were against Rivera, Gatti, Charpentier, an old Camacho, Kamau and Carr. Some decent wins but overall nothing to compare to the above title reign of Napoles. Not only that but he lost his biggest fight against Trinidad, however controversial, and also lost to Mosley who had moved up from lightweight directly. He was also only at WW for three years. In all honesty, and I still don't know if you're taking the piss or not, he simply doesn't compare to the WW greats.
Ok, a brief summary for you on how Oscar doesn't even come close to comparing to Napoles. He was absolutely one of the great, and obviously forgotten, underrated fighters of all time.
As the GreatA said, he made thirteen defenses of his WW title, but, this was in a time when there was one main champion, only the WBC and WBA belts and all contenders fought for that main championship. Now, not only did he defend it thirteen times but he defended the undisputed ie. he held both titles, thirteen times.
He was also already 29 when he won those titles and had fought the best the sport had to offer for 11 long years before finally getting the shot at the great champion Curtis Cokes who himself was the undisputed WW champ and made six great defenses of that title over three years, which more or less equals Oscar's title run at WW in fact.
In those eleven years he fought some truly great fighters, among them was the great Mexican lightweight Alfredo Urbina, Carlos Hernandez, 'Baby' Vasquez, LC Morgans, Adolph Pruitt, Eugenio Espinoza, etc etc.
He finally got his shot and beat Cokes, also beating him in the rematch both times by stoppage in the 13th. He would then go on to fight the legendary WW HOF'er Emille Griffith, winning a fifteen round UD before taking on the number one contender (who would have been a titlist in today's boxing world of ABC titles mind you) and brilliant fighter Ernie 'Indian Red' Lopez. He beat him in Lopez' only two title shots.
He then took on Billy Backus and the fight was given to Backus after a clash of heads opened a cut on Napoles too severe to continue. Napoles then stopped him in the rematch in eight.
After this would come a slew of great title defenses against incredible opposition. Hedgemon Lewis 51-3 x 2, Ralph Charles 39-3, Adolph Pruitt 44-10 (while the record may not seem impressive by today's standards, Pruitt was a great fighter of the day who beat many fantastic fighters and champions and was one of the top fighters for years), Roger Menetrey 49-4, Clyde Gray 40-2 ( Gray was one of Canada's brilliant fighters, beating fighters such as Marcel Cerdan Jr, Donato Paduano, but is best known for losing to a rising 15-0 Tommy Hearns when he was about thirty five or something), Horacio Saldano 50-4, Armando Muniz 39-8 and in his last fight against one of Britain's best world champs John Stracey.
But, in between Gray and Saldano he moved up to take on the undisputed middleweight king Carlos Monzon too, in a losing effort obviously as he was about half his size.
Nonetheless, with an eventual record of 79-7, thirteen title defenses of his undisputed WW crown, won when he was already 29 in 1969 and then finally losing to Stracey in Dec of 1975, as well as many other great wins over champions and other great fighters he was truly one of the greatest WW's to ever fight and well above Oscar.
Oscar made a solid seven defenses, among them his best wins were against Whitaker, Chavez (albeit an old one), Quartey (his best WW win in my opinion), but his other title fights were against Rivera, Gatti, Charpentier, an old Camacho, Kamau and Carr. Some decent wins but overall nothing to compare to the above title reign of Napoles. Not only that but he lost his biggest fight against Trinidad, however controversial, and also lost to Mosley who had moved up from lightweight directly. He was also only at WW for three years. In all honesty, and I still don't know if you're taking the piss or not, he simply doesn't compare to the WW greats.
What is the world coming to...
Next time I'll mind my business!
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