How good was edwin valero

[Black Barty]

Very good but we never got to find out how high his ceiling was. The only two remotely world class opponents he faced (Mosquera and DeMarco) did give him some problems.

FWIW Broner one-upped him vs DeMarco. How good is Broner?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

He could hang with anyone

[Hitman Hodgson]

I'm not sure how good he really was or how good he could've been, but he was a very intimidating fighter, he had a genuinely psychotic look in his eye that used to send shivers down my spine when I watched him fight, he looked like a killer and indeed he was! From a fight fans perspective his death was sad, however the world in general is better off without scum like him.

[Black Barty]

I dont think he was as good as everyone is making him out to be but KO artist always get a ton of praise in boxing no matter who they are stopping. The Oscar black eye stuff means nothing. That was before the Pac fight and we all saw how Oscar performed. Damn near anyone wouldve given him hell at that point.

To me the stuff about him is more meaningful outside of the ring. Alot of mystery surrounds his death. Was he an abusive mad man that battered his wife, killed her, and then committed suicide or was he the victim of a country who stalked him, wanted to kidnap/kill him for his fame, and was he instead murdered in prison like some suggest. Hard to hang yourself with pants.

Also, if he really was the bad guy, was it all due to his brain injury from the motocycle accident like some NFL players snapping after concussions It all just seemed weird.

He was actually all chummy with the president/dictator of his country so I highly doubt that.

[Weltschmerz]

Damn, he was exiting. It sucks that he had to end that way, clearly surrounded by the wrong people and clearly mentally ill, too.

[Ray*]

Good as dead.

[HarvardBlue]

He looked like an absolute beast against DeMarco. However, when I went back and looked at some of his earlier fights he looked pretty ordinary. It's hard to tell but it looked like he was on his way to being a star.

[110110110]

He was a legend in the Gym wars, because apparently he is the hardest hitter south of LH EVER.

He was not flashy, but he was about the last opponent you wanna fight

[SnakeVen0m]

He could hang with anyone

But in the end he only hung by himself.

[IMDAZED]

He looked like an absolute beast against DeMarco. However, when I went back and looked at some of his earlier fights he looked pretty ordinary. It's hard to tell but it looked like he was on his way to being a star.

Exactly. I was really impressed with his performance against DeMarco but in retrospect DeMarco wasn't any great shakes. And even in that performance I thought his D suffered a bit from stiffness. I think we would had a good run but would've struggled to crack the elite.