Your thoughts on Salvador Sanchez.

[VG_Addict]

What are your thoughts on Salvador Sanchez? How would he have done if he hadn't died in that car crash? I think he had all of the tools to be a great: Good jab, good footwork, great chin, and good power.

[greynotsoold]

Have you seen this fight before? Look up Cosme and his record...

[Beanflicker]

When people bring up the big "what if's" of boxing history, like Tony Ayala, Ibeabuchi, ect ect, it's always just ends up as a speculation-fest based on the very little evidence we have.

But with Salvador Sanchez, you have a lot of evidence to draw from because the guy was already a great fighter by the time he died. To have that kind of resume at 23, with dominant stoppage wins over legit HOF fighters like Danny Lopez, Bazooka Gomez, Azumah Nelson... it really is something special. And to think he probably would have fought for another decade, it really is an awful shame.

You don't have to be a boxing expert to recognize the talent that he had. One of boxing's worst losses.

[greynotsoold]

Lopez and Gomez were shot and Nelson was just learning. He was a good fighter and may have become more.
I have to be honest...I HATE Sanchez because he beat Lopez twice and Lopez was my favorite fighter from the time I was 8 or so. I was glad when he died and have never really gotten past that, so my opinion of him is not objective to say the least. I quit hating Bobby Chacon over time, and due to his fighting spirit, but Sanchez died before we got that far.

[Beanflicker]

Those guys were shot? Lopez was only 27 or 28 when they fought, only 9 years into his career, and of course was the champ, that's hardly what I'd call shot. Gomez was only 25 or 26 and undefeated!

Fair enough to Azumah being young and inexperienced, certainly he was, but he was only 2 years away from becoming world champ himself too, so no slouch.

[Dia bando]

Sanchez died before his time, a great Champion he took Wilfredo Gomez to the cleaners as
they say, fantastic little fighter.

[Violent Demise]

Those guys were shot? Lopez was only 27 or 28 when they fought, only 9 years into his career, and of course was the champ, that's hardly what I'd call shot. Gomez was only 25 or 26 and undefeated!

Fair enough to Azumah being young and inexperienced, certainly he was, but he was only 2 years away from becoming world champ himself too, so no slouch.

Lopez wasn't shot. But he was after the Sanchez fights. His style was made for Sanchez. Gomez was a wrecking machine. One of the best ever. Sanchez wrecked the wrecking machine

[greynotsoold]

Those guys were shot? Lopez was only 27 or 28 when they fought, only 9 years into his career, and of course was the champ, that's hardly what I'd call shot. Gomez was only 25 or 26 and undefeated!

Fair enough to Azumah being young and inexperienced, certainly he was, but he was only 2 years away from becoming world champ himself too, so no slouch.

Lopez had had a lot of hard fights; look back in his career and he had taken a ton of punches. He no longer moved on his legs like he did in, for example, the Olivares fight.
Same thing with Gomez. Watch his fights. He was hurt and on bad legs in almost every one of them. he also didn't take 126 well at all. In my estimation, and I haven't seen all of his fights, only 12 or 14, Gomez ain't all that. Tons of heart and will to win, but, in the fights I have seen, he had no legs and ate punches like popcorn. How he beat Zarate is one of the wonders of the world.

[bradlee180]

Lopez and Gomez were...

This young man who earned a Championship and tragically died at 23 years old has been gone for almost 31 years...

Let it go, brother....

[FinitoElDinamita]

He's not in the top 3 ATG Mexican fighter list..