Quote Originally Posted by p4pking
Why write an article about Zarate when talking about the best mexican fighters, there are several active fighters today who will go down as far superior fighters then he was. Zarate may have been very good I honestly can't say Ive seen much of him, I saw Gomez whip him but that's about it.. Seriously though, he never beat anything close to an elite fighter... As far as Im concerned he has a seriously padded record, check it out... Even when he was WBC champ he was defending against guys who had either fought noone or lost to anyone they had fought.
I have seen his fights with Gomez and Pintor and he looked ok,I mean he floored Pintor,but you're right,by quickyl glancing at his record,unless I'm mistaken,it was really padded! However,guys like Zamora and a few others had really impressive records and whichever way you look at it,boy he must have had some power,63 KO's in 70 fights and 2 of his losses when he was old,1 a contraversial decision and 1 whem he moved up,to an all timr great,that's not bad. It's hard to judge some of these old timerS!

How great do you think JCC was then?