Best I've faced

[NearHypnos]

Oscar STAYS salty. My feeling is he purposefully left Floyd, Mosely, and Trinidad off his list because he feels he won against Floyd or feels some type of way.. same with trinidad.. and Mosely he probably tells himself that guy was juicing, so it don't count.

I hear you. I did hear Oscar say once that Mosley truly beat him in the first fight and doesn't seem salty about the first outing.

But yes, he has trouble coping with everything else (and lets be honest he did beat Trinidad lol).

I wonder how he feels about Felix Sturm. It's as if he has erased that part of his life..wish someone asked him lol

[fish262]

Cant believe Benn had a shadow on his brain. That would of most likely happened in the first round too. What a warrior.

[Holywarrior]

I never knew that about Benn vs Nunn was to be signed and Benn declined. For 100G less though everyone would've done it

[Holywarrior]

Oscar didn't say Trinidad though as biggest puncher was is surprising but maybe it's him being salty.

I'm not surprised at all, Tito didn't really hit him. Actually there is a moment in the gatti fight where he did hit Oscar really hard, harder and cleaner than anything Tito landed

[Hook-Right]

Great thread

[Accountoffline]

Very nice thread buddy thank you. Green k.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

You can the depth of a guys resume by some of their answers..

The names oscar drops are just amazing, it's a who's who of great fighters
Same for mccallum

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

I used to subscribe to Ring also. Think I got some sitting around. If I get some time one day, I'll upload some also.

I remember Zab's was pretty good. Was talking about Matty's power compared to Tyszu. Also was talking about how he hit Matty with a bomb, thinking it would knock him out, and he just smiled afterwards.

[La Jefa]

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Best Fighter.
The obvious choice is either Barrera or Pacquiao, two arguably great fighters who Morales beat in the first bouts of their trilogies but lost the following two fights to each. However, the salty veteran refused to bestow that honor on either man. “El Terrible” takes his rivalries seriously.

In this way, Morales is no different from Joe Frazier, who resents Muhammad Ali to this day, or Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who maintains that he won his showdown with Sugar Ray Leonard.

“What do you mean by that question, ‘Who’s the best fighter?’” Morales asked through interpreter Ricardo Jimenez. “Are you talking about the most complete fighter? The best skilled?”

“All of the above,” this writer replied. A second later a fan who attended the press luncheon at downtown L.A.‘s El Paseo restaurant blurted out in Spanish: “Come on, Terrible! You know it’s Barrera!”

“Nah, f___ him,” Morales told the man.

If you believe the animosity between Morales and Barrera was contrived to sell tickets, think again.

“Ask the other questions,” Morales said after silencing the fan. “We’ll come back to this one.”

Morales was happy to answer the other categories:

When it was time for Morales to answer the Best fighter category he was still clearly uncomfortable with the question.

“If you’re talking about the toughest opponent I’ve faced, to be honest, his name was Erik Morales,” he said in all seriousness. “When I did things the right way and had proper training, boxing was easy for me, but all too often I did not do that. So, as you know, I had a lot of struggles.

“Honestly, I had too many tough fights to say one man was tougher than all the rest. I know fans want me to say that it was either Barrera or Pacquiao, but I don’t see it that way. That’s not how a fighter views things. There are fighters who people have forgotten about or never knew that were the toughest fights, the biggest fights for me at the time I fought them.

“Jose ‘Pepillo’ Valdez was the toughest fighter I had ever faced back when I was nothing. That fight [TKO 3 in 1994] was the biggest fight for me when I was just a Tijuana prospect.

“Enrique Jupiter (TKO 6 in 1995) was the toughest I faced when I moved on to the next level and was regarded as one of Mexico’s best young fighters. I had to beat him in order to show that I was going to go somewhere in boxing.

“Daniel Zaragoza, the old champion I beat a week before I turned 21, was the toughest fighter I faced when it was time for me to prove that I could be a Mexican star in the United States. He was by far the toughest and most skilled fighter I had faced at the time. By beating him [KO 11 in 1997], I proved that I could fight any style and that I could be a real champ.

“Junior Jones (TKO 4 in 1998) was my biggest fight when it was time for me to prove that I could go to the next level, from a champion to one of the fighters rated pound for pound. And from then on it was just tough fight after tough fight.

“My fights with Barrera and Pacquiao are among those tough fights, but I don’t see them as being any more special than my tough fights with (Wayne) McCullough, (Guty) Espadas, Chi, (Jesus) Chavez, (Carlos) Hernandez and (David) Diaz. I’ve had so many wars I forget some of them. You or anyone else can probably put together a Top 20 list of my toughest fights.”

That’s why Morales is a modern legend.

[A-Wolf]

Some of that good-good. Wish we had one for every fighter. Would buy a hardback if one existed.