A Tale of Two Sons of Great Fighters

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It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone though that Chavez had 40+ fights before he stepped it up.
Look at Chavez Sr. he had twice as much as that before he was getting recognition.
If he is following in his dad's footsteps , which he might want to, then he's doing it right.
I understand Chavez got a lot of heat for fighting cab drivers or what not, but looking at his career now he had a great one.
All those fights helped mold him in to the fighter he turned out to be.
Sure not everyone does that, but his dad did it got him to where he is, and it seems to be working for him to.

[TitoFan]

It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone though that Chavez had 40+ fights before he stepped it up.
Look at Chavez Sr. he had twice as much as that before he was getting recognition.
If he is following in his dad's footsteps , which he might want to, then he's doing it right.
I understand Chavez got a lot of heat for fighting cab drivers or what not, but looking at his career now he had a great one.
All those fights helped mold him in to the fighter he turned out to be.
Sure not everyone does that, but his dad did it got him to where he is, and it seems to be working for him to.

I think we're looking at the same events, but we're interpreting them in different ways. You said that "Chavez Sr. had twice as much as that before he was getting recognition." I prefer to think of it as Chavez Sr. fighting bums with losing records for his first 40-some fights, all of them in Mexico. No doubt that after that... he got on track with better opposition and ended up having a great career. But does his record of 100 wins stack up twice as good as someone who fought good opposition from the very beginning and ended up with 40-50 professional fights? IMO...... no. It's a matter of personal opinion.