Who Is The Greatest Cuban Fighter Of All Time?

[Southpaw16BF]

Well????????????????????????

[John Hue]

For me Teófilo Stevenson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teófilo_Stevenson

[MexicanMauler]

Yuriorkis Gamboa

[1SILVA]

well????????????????????????

kid chocolate

[Southpaw16BF]

kid chocolate

What do you feel makes him greater than Jose Napoles and Kid Gavalin?

[Jim Jeffries]

Felix Savon. 3 olympic gold medals, 6 world championships, 16 golds and one silver in total. 362-21 am record. 6'5", damn shame he wasn't allowed to turn pro.

[TheGreatA]

Jose Napoles if you count him. Though you could also count him as Mexican since he fought out of Mexico.

If not, then it's Kid Gavilan and Luis Manuel Rodriguez followed by Kid Chocolate. In fact it's quite difficult to place them and requires some further thought for me.

[Southpaw16BF]

Jose Napoles if you count him. Though you could also count him as Mexican since he fought out of Mexico.

If not, then it's Kid Gavilan and Luis Manuel Rodriguez followed by Kid Chocolate. In fact it's quite difficult to place them and requires some further thought for me.

Rodriguez over Chocolate? Really....

Reasons?

And also explain why you think Napoles is the greatest Cuban?

[HaglerSteelChin]

Unfortunately, this is a question why may never really coming close to having a definitive answer. We know due to the political issues that cuban fighters unless they defect are NOT going to fight professionally in the states. This has made it difficult to fully make thorough evaluations of fighters that weren''t able to defect and fight professionaly after 1960. Fighters like Felix Savon, Teofilo Stevenson, and Adolfo Orta than came be judged mainly for international competition and amateur records.

My Cuban uncle grew up a boxing fan and pretty much saw the big three Gavilan, Chocolate, and Napoles. He gives the edge to Chocolate and states he was the overall better boxer than Gavilan and narrowly over Napoles. Chocolate did beat guys like Bass, Larbaba, and some thought he was robbed in an early fight with Canzoneri. Chocolate did go nearly 100 fights without getting KOD and it took him over 50 fights to finally get a loss. Many of his losses were close fights to HOF caliber guys and dosen't have as many fluke losses as Napoles.

[1SILVA]

Unfortunately, this is a question why may never really coming close to having a definitive answer. We know due to the political issues that cuban fighters unless they defect are NOT going to fight professionally in the states. This has made it difficult to fully make thorough evaluations of fighters that weren''t able to defect and fight professionaly after 1960. Fighters like Felix Savon, Teofilo Stevenson, and Adolfo Orta than came be judged mainly for international competition and amateur records.

My Cuban uncle grew up a boxing fan and pretty much saw the big three Gavilan, Chocolate, and Napoles. He gives the edge to Chocolate and states he was the overall better boxer than Gavilan and narrowly over Napoles. Chocolate did beat guys like Bass, Larbaba, and some thought he was robbed in an early fight with Canzoneri. Chocolate did go nearly 100 fights without getting KOD and it took him over 50 fights to finally get a loss. Many of his losses were close fights to HOF caliber guys and dosen't have as many fluke losses as Napoles.

Excellent analysis. My father felt the same.