Two personal favorites of mine, and two well rounded boxers who never fought against each other.
Fight is at super featherweight. 15 rounds. In their prime.
2006-11-06 10:04:39 · 4 answers · asked by Brent 5 in Sports ➔ Boxing
Looks like m n removed his answers after the comment I made on the Brock/Klitschko question. Wonder why? Seems like he got in for Santana. Why?
2006-11-07 03:35:55 · update #1
Great question Brent! This is a really tough call as both were outstanding fighters during their careers. Lopez may have an advantage in handspeed while La Porte is probably the better body puncher and has the better chin. I believe that this fight would be a real war with several momentum shifts during the fight and both men definetly showing the effects of the fight. I will say La Porte wins by split decision in this one.
2006-11-06 13:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by toughguy2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Brent ~
Tough match up here. In my opinion, this fight would be hard to pick a winner, but I'd have to give the slight edge to Juan La Porte reason being this, both of these guys fought Julio Ceasar Chavez when he was pretty much still fresh and although they both lost to Julio, Jaun put up a much better fight against Julio than Tony did as a matter of fact a lot of people at the Garden thought that Juan beat Julio and I was one of them.
On both a these guys records it's like a who's who of premire fighters of the 80's and eraly 90's. Jaun fought the likes of Salvador Sanchez, Eusebio Pedroza, Julio Cesar Chavez and Billy Castillo to name a few. Tony had an impressive resume' too John John Molina, Charles Murray, Brian Mitchell and Rocky Lockridge.
That fact that Tony was a blood and guts type of guy and couldn't fight going backwards to save his life and that he loved to brawl would be the biggest difference in this bout although there would be periods where both fighters stood toe to toe and bang it out Tony would get the worst of these exchanges and would swell and begin to cut. Juan would step back just enough and land a straight righthand right down the pipe.
In the later rounds this fight would become a blood bath and the referee would have no choice but to stop this fight in the 13th round Juan would win this but would not want to give Tony a rematch, I think that this fight would take off some of their best years in boxing.
2006-11-06 11:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by Santana D 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Tony Lopez.
2006-11-06 18:43:53 · answer #3 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lopez. Mitchell beats them both.
2006-11-06 11:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋