Quote Originally Posted by marbleheadmaui View Post
grey,

Canzales is a guy I have always thought was one of the first beneficiaries of the alphabet system. No doubt a fine fighter, but his best win was who? Bones Adams. A very good win, butnot exactly ATG stuff is it? he had a gazillion defenses but only a handful against ranked guys. There's a lot of Johnny Tapia (one of my faves) here. I'd loved to have seen Canizales take on the Japanese guy Yakushuki? Yakushiji? I just can't see Canizales staying with the guys you listed...but we're all guessing here.

Here's some prime time Eder Jofre against no joke Jose Medel, who a year later KO'd Harada in Tokyo!







Canizales was missing that fellow star dance partner...say a Junior Jones when it should have happened and not lbs and years later. Bones was a quality in hindsight fighter but when he met Canizales he was a gutsy green teenager with a killer box cut and a busted jaw. Did well to hang in there in a man vs boy scrap, showed some tight boxing. Good fight.

I dont think he benifited from alpahabet boys or protected belt but def had some iffy calls...namely 1st Reyes and Hardy fights. He was the goods and a seriously slept on champion though not spectacular in any one aspect. He may have been vanilla a bit but shoot I think he did enough to beat Vasquez when he went up.