Your thoughts on Vicente Saldivar?
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One of my favourite boxers of all time, love all his fights especially his trilogy with Winstone.
Skill wise he's a top 3 southpaw with Pea and Hagler imo (May be some bias), the best boxer I've seen at parrying and he could mix it up brilliantly, definitely under rated and as you said he rarely gets mentioned among the Mexican greats when imo he is in the top 4.
Glad you did your write up on him, enjoy reading your articles.
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The OP said it all;
One of the all time great Mexican fighters and one of the all time great Southpaws.
Great, underrated fighter.Comment
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I don't know if I would have him top-5, really. It's a very deep pool, discussing Mexico's finest. I do agree he is one of the true greats at the elite level in the country's history, though --- the likes of Barrera, Morales & Marquez are a notch below this, but will probably forever garner much more praise & attention, sadly.Comment
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I don't know if I would have him top-5, really. It's a very deep pool, discussing Mexico's finest. I do agree he is one of the true greats at the elite level in the country's history, though --- the likes of Barrera, Morales & Marquez are a notch below this, but will probably forever garner much more praise & attention, sadly.Comment
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I don't know if I would have him top-5, really. It's a very deep pool, discussing Mexico's finest. I do agree he is one of the true greats at the elite level in the country's history, though --- the likes of Barrera, Morales & Marquez are a notch below this, but will probably forever garner much more praise & attention, sadly.
Barrera and Morales will garner more praise and attention because they had many many career defining wins. Saldivar doesn't have that.
The general recognized top 5 Mexican boxers of all time are:
Chavez(obvious #1 the rest isn't in any order)
Lopez
Barrera
Morales
Sanchez
I think that is right.Comment
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Barrera and Morales will garner more praise and attention because they had many many career defining wins. Saldivar doesn't have that.
The general recognized top 5 Mexican boxers of all time are:
Chavez(obvious #1 the rest isn't in any order)
Lopez
Barrera
Morales
Sanchez
I think that is right.Comment
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