Boxingscene's top 20 Mexican fighters

[IwatchBoxing]

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=349

1. Julio Cesar Chavez

2. Salvador Sanchez

3. Ricardo Lopez

4. Marco Antonio Barrera

5. Erik Morales - WBC titles in 3 divisions.

6. Carlos Zarate - Made 8 defenses of the 118-pound title. At one point he was 45-0 (44 KOs).

7. Vicente Saldivar - Maybe this guy should be ranked higher. He made 8 defenses of the unified bantamweight title from 64 to 67

8. Ruben Olivares - The old timers love this guy and he was a pure knock out artist who won his first 60 bouts.

9. Humberto Gonzalez-Chiquita - A classy fighter and it’s like fans have forgotten that he won two out of three against Carbajal.

10. Miguel Canto - He was the WBC flyweight champ from 75 to 79 and made fourteen consecutive defenses.

[Sliquestylez]

Pintor, Cuevas, Zaragoza, Zamora, JMM.

[IwatchBoxing]

Ouch!

In evaluating Julio’s overall career it’s hard to place him in the elite upper echelon of the regular all-time great lists because he never really beat a great fighter in his prime. In fraudulently drawing with Pernell Whitaker, he lost his chance to be ranked up there with greats like Sugar Ray Robinson and Roberto Duran. Still, Chavez was a great warrior and did more then enough to be considered the greatest fighter in Mexican history and this is the general consensus among boxing historians

[Sliquestylez]

I don't think Chavez was great enough to be on upper echelon of great fighters. If he had beat Whitaker, I would place him on a heartbeat.

[enadeus]

Putting Chavez over Barrera and Morales is ludacris.

[morancito]

In evaluating Julio’s overall career it’s hard to place him in the elite upper echelon of the regular all-time great lists because he never really beat a great fighter in his prime. In fraudulently drawing with Pernell Whitaker, he lost his chance to be ranked up there with greats like Sugar Ray Robinson and Roberto Duran. Still, Chavez was a great warrior and did more then enough to be considered the greatest fighter in Mexican history and this is the general consensus among boxing historians

It wasn't Julio's fault that there were just no all-time greats in their primes when he was in his. At the very least, he has to be considered a top 20 p4p all time.

[IwatchBoxing]

It wasn't Julio's fault that there were just no all-time greats in their primes when he was in his. At the very least, he has to be considered a top 20 p4p all time.

There was DLH and Whitaker...