Comments Thread For: Cotto: No Debate, Gomez The Best PR Boxer of All-Time

[King Ju-Ju]

And to sanchez son azumah nelson.

Why do so many of u mexicans have avatars and sigs of mexicans beating puerto rican fighters???? Ya don't care about any of the other people you guys beat???

[CubanGuyNYC]

& he's RIGHT!!! Besides Gomez being a 3 division world champ(jr feather, feather & jr lightweight)he also has the record for the most defenses at jr featherweight(122lbs)with 17 successful defenses & ALL BY KO!!! Gomez ended with a record of 44-3-1-42KO's & 23 of those fights were world title fights & his record in word championship fights was 20-3-18KO's!! & Gomez has the record for the longest uninterrupted title reign at jr featherweight(5 years, 10 months) Gomez was also a Amateur World Champion winning Gold in Havana, Cuba(1974) & winning ALL the fights by KO!!He KO'd 3 fighters in 2 rounds & 1 in 1 round!! Among them was the favorite to win the Gold in his weight class, Cuban amateur champion Luis Jorge Romero...He's DEFINITELY the best Puerto Rican fighter of all time!! & 2 of his 3 losses came to Hall of Famers Salvador Sanchez & Azumah Nelson..The other was to Panamanian Alfredo Layne at just about the end of Gomez's career..It's gonna be REAL hard for ANY other Boricua fighter to at least MATCH those credentials, never mind trying to TOP them!!!

A few weeks ago(before the Juanma/Salido fight) arrogant swollen headed Juanma would have said he was the best ever!! & he actually believed it, until Salido gave him a reality check!!

Very nicely put.

Benitez, Gomez, Ortiz, Trinidad...those are four serious names. I have a soft spot for Carlos; he's old-school, and a nice guy, from what I gather. But Gomez has to get the nod, as you so aptly argued. My opinion: 1- "Bazooka", 2- Carlos, 3- "Tito", 4- "El Radar".

It's too bad that Carlos Ortiz seems to be forgotten among Puerto Rican boxing fans. He was a great champion, someone to be proud of. Trinidad is the most recent Boricua great, so it's natural that many will think very highly of him. Benitez was known more for his supernatural ability and defensive wizardry. The more powerful punchers tend to inspire awe, but Wilfred was a special boxer. He's semi-forgotten, a fact made even sadder by the knowledge that he's in bad financial and medical shape.

[vicmatic1]

benitez ortiz n gomez are all time greats..either would do it for me

[FabsDaMan]

I gotta say I disagree with Cotto, I think Carlos Ortiz is the best fighter out of Puerto Rico...Carlos Ortiz was a REAL world champion when there werent all these sanctioning bodies, just one champion (he did that twice), He was the inaugral WBC lightweight champion, he also won the WBA title. The main reason I pick Ortiz over Gomez and even Trinidad is becuase every time he lost his titles he won them back against the same person who beat him...plus Trinidad and Ortiz are the only fighters from PR to win fighter of the year awards

[Dlostx]

Why do so many of u mexicans have avatars and sigs of mexicans beating puerto rican fighters???? Ya don't care about any of the other people you guys beat???

That's easy... Because puertoricans have the greatest ratio per capita of boxing champions by a huge margin in the world. Mexico has 110+ million ppl in Mex compared to 3.5 million in PR. One more thing, puertoricans have won lot more fights against mexicans in title fights... They cannot accept that...

[King Ju-Ju]

Very nicely put.

Benitez, Gomez, Ortiz, Trinidad...those are four serious names. I have a soft spot for Carlos; he's old-school, and a nice guy, from what I gather. But Gomez has to get the nod, as you so aptly argued. My opinion: 1- "Bazooka", 2- Carlos, 3- "Tito", 4- "El Radar".

It's too bad that Carlos Ortiz seems to be forgotten among Puerto Rican boxing fans. He was a great champion, someone to be proud of. Trinidad is the most recent Boricua great, so it's natural that many will think very highly of him. Benitez was known more for his supernatural ability and defensive wizardry. The more powerful punchers tend to inspire awe, but Wilfred was a special boxer. He's semi-forgotten, a fact made even sadder by the knowledge that he's in bad financial and medical shape.

you ever heard bout what happened to him when he took a fight in argentina baclk in like '86??? He lost the fight but the sad part was that the promoter of the fight stole his purse money and his documents like passport and Id's was stolen too. He was stuck in argentina for over a year. He had brought a toy doll for his daughter before the fight and held it everyday remembering his baby girl. when he finally got back to pr, they showed him get off the plane and hand her the doll. When I found out about that I felt so bad for him man.

[theplayerpimp]

Why do so many of u mexicans have avatars and sigs of mexicans beating puerto rican fighters???? Ya don't care about any of the other people you guys beat???

So ya can btch and moan about it. Seems to be working haha just ***in around though. Its a rivaly why cant we show our support. Plus thats sanchez biggest moment of his career.

[dnut17]

yea i know man and all it took was 10 Mexicans to soften him up for Sanchez to get the W I'm so proud of you guys.

Mario Hernandez = failed
Joe Guevara= failed
Alberto Davila = failed
Tony Rocha = failed
Jose Murillo Medel = failed
John Meza = failed
Raul Tirado = failed
Juan Antonio Lopez = failed
Carlos Zarate = failed
Nicky Perez = failed

Gomez is hands down the best pr boxer of all time he could box he could brawl he was the full package. He just ran into the best mexican fighter of all time. Sanchez was magic. IMO both were top 10 all time under WW fighters.

[ralph22]

How is the article irrelevant its a big debate in boxing and plzz gomez would have wooped sanchez in a rematch if he didnt die gomez took him lightly

u still dont give up sal **** him bad

[King Ju-Ju]

So ya can btch and moan about it. Seems to be working haha just ***in around though. Its a rivaly why cant we show our support. Plus thats sanchez biggest moment of his career.

Its actually kinda flattering to be honest. It shows how great we really are since it is such a great accomplishment for a Mexican to beat a Puerto Rican Champion. Lol.