Finito López, the true goat?

[eco1]

51-0, fought elites.
Never lost in the amateurs and fought them all.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Lopez is the greatest Mexican fighter of all time in my book.

1. Lopez 2. Marquez
3. Chavez
4. Sanchez
5. Morales

[Cypocryphy]

51-0, fought elites.
Never lost in the amateurs and fought them all.

The criticism of El Finito was that his competition wasn't the greatest. But the problem with that is that the strawweight division never gets any real notoriety. So were his peers not really the best or were they not really known? You have to watch those fights back in the 80s and make your own opinion. He very well might not have been fighting the best. Still shouldn't take away form how great he was.

[eco1]

The criticism of El Finito was that his competition wasn't the greatest. But the problem with that is that the strawweight division never gets any real notoriety. So were his peers not really the best or were they not really known? You have to watch those fights back in the 80s and make your own opinion. He very well might not have been fighting the best. Still shouldn't take away form how great he was.

That is what people say here like parrots.
He fought everyone back then.

[STREET CLEANER]

That is what people say here like parrots.
He fought everyone back then.

He didn't have that great other guy to fight like Chiquita and Carbajal. He best foe was Rosendo Alvarez and the drew once I think on a cut and he won the next.

Finito was the Bible of boxing. He did everything extremely well and was well disciplined. Too bad there was not a real challenge for him to demonstrate even more of himself in a fight.

One of my favorite fighters that Don King buried deep on his cards there were not aired.

[pretty boy_]

Ivan Calderon is the greatest 105 pounder ever. P4P he boxes Finito’s ears off. He also had bigger cojones than “Finito” moving up in weight and fighting champs there despite his tiny stature. I bet you wish you could say the same for “Finito” LMAO…

[Cypocryphy]

Ivan Calderon is the greatest 105 pounder ever. P4P he boxes Finito’s ears off. He also had bigger cojones than “Finito” moving up in weight and fighting champs there despite his tiny stature. I bet you wish you could say the same for “Finito” LMAO…

You're out of your mind. A master boxer-puncher (Lopez) vs a runner with a weak chin (Calderon)? The fight wouldn't make it to the final bell. Ricardo Lopez wins by stoppage.

[IronDanHamza]

A resounding no.

[Amir Imam]

51-0-1 nice try though

[War Room]

51-0, fought elites.
Never lost in the amateurs and fought them all.

No, for several reasons.

1. I know people hate me for this but from my observation =---> the smaller they get, the less skills they possess and the talent pool is so much smaller. They don't get faster like one would think, the power is obviously less, they don't have enough testosterone or something. They're just overall less.

2. If you look at his record, it's filled with cherries.

• At 44-0 he's fighting a 11-4
• At 43-0 he's fighting a 10-2
• At 37-0 he's fighting a 10-0
• At 34-0 he's fighting a 4-0
• At 32-0 he's fighting a 6-0
• At 31-0 he's fighting a 14-0
• At 27-0 he's fighting a 9-3
• At 21-0 he's fighting a 0-2
• At 20-0 he's fighting a 0-4

3. If you match him in size with the greats like Morales and etc he gets brutalized imo. There is a big gap in technique.