70 Greatest Mexican Fighters Ever

[marbleheadmaui]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on where Pipino Cuevas fits. One of the very few teenage champs and for about five years was an absolute wrecking machine. He started slow and finished terribly, but man those dozen or so fights in the middle? He was every bit as destructive as Mike Tyson was for his dozen best. I wish he and Palomino had gotten together.

[Violent Demise]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on where Pipino Cuevas fits. One of the very few teenage champs and for about five years was an absolute wrecking machine. He started slow and finished terribly, but man those dozen or so fights in the middle? He was every bit as destructive as Mike Tyson was for his dozen best. I wish he and Palomino had gotten together.

Talk about a complex fighter. I think I was more than fair in his ranking. If anything a little to fair. Might of placed a little to high. He gets credit for being the youngest welterweight champion ever at 18. I doubt that ever gets broken. Who his team paid off to get a title shot with a 15-6 record and coming off a loss, I have no idea. But he took advantage of his undeserved title opportunity by slaughtering a good fighter in Angel Espada. Cuevas was as one-dimensional as they came. But that one dimension was a demonic left hook. That was literally breaking jaws. Espada and Harold Weston had to eat through straws after facing him. His 11 title defenses I believe it was is a hella impressive. But like you brought up in the Orlando Canizales case it was never an undisputed title he was defending. The welterweight title was already splintered. He was done after the Hearns fight