If not, who is?
2006-08-30 06:24:13 · 12 answers · asked by eprometheus 2 in Sports ➔ Boxing
Tito Trinidad? Gaviota, what are you smoking? He's not even the best Puerto Rican boxer ever. I'd rank Wilfredo Gomez and Carlos Ortiz ahead of him. I'd put Wilfred Benitez ahead of him too.
With that said, I think Roberto Duran is the greatest Latin fighter ever. I love Julio Cesar Chavez, Salvador Sanchez, Ruben Olivares, Alexis Arguello, Carlos Monzon and so on. Chavez is no doubt the most famous Mexican boxer ever but Sanchez would've been even more legendary had he not died so tragically at age 23.
Roberto Duran's greatness lies in the fact that he was beloved from the United States all the way down to Peru. While Chavez and Sanchez were greatly respected and admired, it was mostly concentrated in the U.S. and in Mexico. As to where Duran's appeal expanded a bit more. For this reason and this reason only, I'd have to rank Duran ahead of Chavez and Sanchez. Coming from a Mexican like me, I know that this is blasphemous.
2006-08-30 07:07:31 · answer #1 · answered by El Teke 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Duran is a great boxer but you got to also look at his competition his only true competition was Leonard and the same goes to Leonard. If you have to say who are the greatest you could with Julio Cesar Chavez or Salvador Sanchez"He died in an auto accident but he was proclaimed as the greatest boxer that never was," or you could go with Trinidad who has a bit of an asterisk on his record. De La Hoya is definitely not in the category of greatest boxers he has always Been over rated. Simply put I say Chavez followed by Duran and Sanchez
2006-08-30 17:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by Omar Ortiz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been many great Latin fighters in boxing history but I have to say that Roberto Duran who won lightweight, welterweight, and middleweight titles is the best with respect to Cesar Chavez, Salvadore Sanchez, Alex Arguello and Ricardo Lopez and too many others to name.
2006-08-30 06:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by toughguy2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duean was definitly the greatest of all time Chavez second and Sanchez third, but Sanchez did'nt fight above lightweight. Duran fought all the way up to light heavyweight.! Not only was he the best Latin fighter, he was proberly one of the top ten of all time in the world!
2014-04-08 05:18:08 · answer #4 · answered by Danny H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 or 15 years ago thismight have been easier to judge, but there are so many good latin fighters to choose from now. i think i'm gonna go with Luis Firpo though. in his fight with dempsey for the heavyweight title he got knocked down 10 times which means he got up 9 times. against dempsey thats amazing. he knocked dempsey down twice in the first round. the second time the ref counted 9 but some of the writers outside the ring thought it was more like 14 seconds, so you could argue that firpo really won and should have been the first hispanic heavyweight champion and first non-white champion since jack johnson.
2006-08-30 18:55:48 · answer #5 · answered by ice_cream528 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duran without a doubt. Never ducked anyone and beat great fighters.
2006-08-30 07:00:06 · answer #6 · answered by Brent 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NO......the greatest latin boxer was Carlos Monzon..
2006-08-30 21:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello, no he is good but the best fighter is "Tito Trinidad" from Puerto Rico" you can bet on it.
2006-08-30 06:36:25 · answer #8 · answered by Isabel Gaviota 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn right he is. Only man to beat Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime. And going up two weight divisions to do it.
2006-08-30 06:45:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
probably not THE greatest but most definately ONE of the greatest
2006-08-30 06:31:09 · answer #10 · answered by chefzilla65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋