Pernell Whitaker vs Wilfred Benitez
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How was it a bad post?
Benitez's drug problems clearly had a far more profound impact on his career and its length than Pea's did. Whitaker was pretty much done and had already achieved everything he was going to by the time the drugs caught up with him. The same thing cannot be said for Wilfred.Comment
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I added those 2 eve tho they were loses they were very close fights!!!!!!!!!! Not Trinidad-Whitaker tho'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I don't think Benitez really gets overrated, people hardly talk about him. He has a couple of truly great wins on his resume even though he declined at such an early age.
Then again he was already fighting world class opposition by the time he was 17 years old so he did spend 7 years at the top.
Benitez made a fool's mistake against Curry, traded with the bigger puncher and got nearly knocked out because of it. I believe he was only 18 years old at the time he fought Curry and Weston.
He was never the same after moving up to middleweight and taking a beating from Hamsho.
Benitez's resume at 140+ lbs:
Roberto Duran
Carlos Palomino
Antonio Cervantes
Maurice Hope
Carlos Santos
Hearns
Leonard
Whitaker's:
JC Chavez
JC Vasquez
James McGirt
Rafael Pineda
Diosbelys Hurtado
DLH
TrinidadLast edited by Ch@mpBox@PR; 02-19-2009, 09:57 PM.Comment
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I know, I just got confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1How was it a bad post?
Benitez's drug problems clearly had a far more profound impact on his career and its length than Pea's did. Whitaker was pretty much done and had already achieved everything he was going to by the time the drugs caught up with him. The same thing cannot be said for Wilfred.Comment
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