Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Exactly. He fought a lot of those fights in Mexico. In fact, he only ventured out of Mexico on his 38th fight when he came to San Juan. Whereas other champions past and present are already traveling outside their friendly neighborhood confines by their 10th pro fight. And to your point about BoxRec missing a lot of the opponents' fights. Still... it's hard to camouflage when in your 18th professional fight you're repeating an opponent you've already beaten... and this guy is 0-7 with four knockout losses on his record. Or when for your 50th professional fight you fight a guy who's 1-15 and eventually ends up with a 2-20 record with 15 KO losses. I'm not questioning his preparation, or the fact that he ended up being one of the greats. I'm just saying his record is disproportionately ballooned, as seems to be the case with JCC Jr. Must be a way of doing things. Meanwhile, you have a Lomachenko facing great competition right off the bat. Yes he had a long amateur career... but if in the end you're looking at W's and L's, it tends to distort reality.
You have to look past the softies and look at the hard fights. I say this because I once looked through SRRs record carefully and was shocked how many times even well into his career he fought guys with 0 wins, or 1 win or less than 10 wins or more than 10 losses or below 500 records etcetera. The numbers of, frankly, weak fighters really adds up. But the numbers of great fighters adds up too. Chavez ledger is the same, there are many many softies but also many many great fighters.

And in the end all I care about is the good fighters fighting the good fighters.