Vic D- Borderline HOF or a ways to go?

[Suckmedry]

Vic is a quality fighter and his level of opposition and title wins makes him one of the most underrated fighters around imo.

[BallisticAffair]

Vic is a quality fighter and his level of opposition and title wins makes him one of the most underrated fighters around imo.

This I agree with.




A week ago, I made some remarks in praise of Vic,

LOL, exactly.


Darchinyan is a great heel.


Even if he's hard for many to actually like, he should've won everyone's respect by the way he bounced back after the heavy loss to Donaire, rededicating and adjusting his style to crush the highly favored Mijares. Then making further adjustments to become a serious contender threat at bantam. At his age. His style, though ugly, lends itself to eventful, exciting fights, too.


Definitely near the top of my list of most underrated prizefighters of this past decade.

So, yeah, I'm with you.

[Walt Liquor]

I think he's a HOFer. Not first ballot, as that is reserved for the true greats of the game usually. But, I think he's one of the very best and certainly one of the most overlooked champions of the last decade for what he's achieved and how he's gone about it.

He's had a better run and fought more top fighters/champs than just about any other fighter not named Pac over the years and has many underrated wins. His win over Pacheco is highly overlooked imo.

Anyway, I think a title win at 118 would cement it, but as it stands now I do think he's in at some point.

Pastrano: he didn't beat Agbeko and he wasn't doing that well against Donaire and wouldn't do any better now. Donaire literally stands head and shoulders over him. Literally. That alone would make it very, very difficult for Vic to beat him. Donaire shouldn't be, and probably never should, have been a Flyweight. He's as big as most lightweights in the ring. I was rewatching his fight recently with Marquez and it looks scary and disturbing. It genuinely looks like a flyweight is fighting a fighter from 140. Go watch it again.

Vic can't beat that type of fighter that has the skill Donaire does. It would be tough going if Doniare was an actual normal sized flyweight. His speed, power and counter skill are enough to deal with, then you have the fact he's as big as any 135 pound fighter today and it's as good as done.

Despite that one fight, and that should in no way hold him out of the HOF (would you say the same of Montiel who got more brutally knocked out in two rounds?), he has had an amazing career and still has some great opportunities left but is fast approaching the end at 36. Great underrated little big man.

this guy also.......

I put pacheco first becaues it was such a good win at the time. not your typical colombian ****er and was a damn good fighter.

vic ended up punishing and folding him- he was never the same.