Top 5 best Latin American fighters of all time. Curious thing is that...

[Mr. Fantastic]

Oscar had better skills, resume and accomplishments than a lot of the guys being mentioned.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

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Originally Posted by .:: JSFD26 ::.

A lot of us have some "spaniard" blood in us. Spanish is not even the primary language in Brazil...


The portuguese colonized you, historically both portugal and spain are very alike, i mean after all you can throw a rock from spain and it will land on portugal. Both languages are based on the latin romance language, what there is to debate here? Of course brasilians are latino.

You who? Cuba was NOT colonized by Portugal so Idk who or what you're talking about. But I'm already over this subject.


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[FilMor]

You who? Cuba was NOT colonized by Portugal so Idk who or what you're talking about. But I'm already over this subject.


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Oh ok whatever, you make cubans look bad then.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I already said I misuse it all the time. The same way I misuse "spanish". I ask people if they're "spanish" but doesn't necessarily mean I'm asking if they're from Spain. Its something that got stuck with me from back in the day when I lived up north.


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I understand and I'm not coming down on you. Latino is a term given to the countries from the Latin region of Europe. Countries that spoke Latin based or romance languages.

Brazil is included on that group. Even though people want to make "Latin" a race, it's not. I'm not Latin, I'm of Mexican descent, of American and Mexican nationality and Mestizo (mix between native indian and european blood).

It gets complicated but Brazilians are technically latinos.

[jtcs1981]

Yea. Nothing against Brazilians cause they're cool as **** but I never felt comfortable when people call them latinos. Aren't they made up mostly of Europeans, Africans and some Asian?

Hell, I'd say Filipinos are more "latino" than Brazilians.


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That is the basic mix for all of us. Negro, español, tainos (en el caribe). The difference is that they speak Portuguese, we speak spanish. Both language are romance language or vulgar latin. They are latinos.


The lists are subjective. And somehow kind of insulting when you consider that you might leave someone out that might be as good as the other.

[KO MX]

1-Canelo/Chavez Sr

2-Duran

3-Sanchez

4-Monzon

5-Arguello

[ManOfVictory]

Sanchez
JCC Sr
Lopez
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[Infamous]

I understand and I'm not coming down on you. Latino is a term given to the countries from the Latin region of Europe. Countries that spoke Latin based or romance languages.

Brazil is included on that group. Even though people want to make "Latin" a race, it's not. I'm not Latin, I'm of Mexican descent, of American and Mexican nationality and Mestizo (mix between native indian and european blood).

It gets complicated but Brazilians are technically latinos.

So which do you choose In a census survey:

Asian
Black
Caucasian
Native American

[BendOver]

In no particular order
Duran
Kid Chocolate
Monzon
Ricardo Lopez
Wilfredo Gomez
Wilfredo Benitez
Jose Napoles
Ruben Olivares
Alexis Arguellos
Kid Gavilan
JM Marquez
Chavez had his record padded for most of his career, I see Barrera and Morales with better resume than him, Sal Sanchez die too soon and we can only dream what he could had done if not for his untimely death, there other Mexican greats like Kid Azteca, Miguel Canto, Chiquita Gonzalez that could be in the list too, to me it's too hard to just pick 5 from a list of greats...

[RubenSonny]

With all due respect, that is absurd.

Whether or not he fought in Brazil often, Jofre beat a lot of great fighters that makes Lopez' look weak in comparison. He also beat all but two, both against the HOF great Harada in close fights.

As to other posts that say Chavez doesn't deserve a top 5 spot, that's just being biased and ******. Chavez is clearly among the top five, and very arguably 2nd behind Duran.

Only Monzon could really be argued as above him with any equality and even that's tricky. It's very difficult, without being absurdly biased, to ignore what Chavez did. He's easily above most others people have mentioned being above him so far, in every single category you want to choose.

The amount of champions he beat, along with championship defenses, his undefeated streak until Whitaker, in different divisions is unparalleled in the sports history. You're just being ingenuous not having him in the top 5.

If you have Arguello, for instance, but not Chavez, you're being ******. Kid Gavilan, Jose Napoles, Ricardo Lopez, Sal Sanchez etc etc, but no Chavez....

Why is Chavez greater than Gavilan? That notion is absurd to me.