Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights
We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our
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Salvador Sanchez
Aug. 21, 1981: Sanchez vs Gomez
One of the perennial frustrations of being a boxing fan is the fact so many of the most meaningful match-ups
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Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition,
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July 21, 1982: Sanchez vs Nelson
There’s that old 1960s query: what if they had a war and nobody came? Considering the 1982 clash between featherweights
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July 7, 1985: Chavez vs Mayweather
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only
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May 22, 1982: Arguello vs Ganigan
A few years back the rise of Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez as a rare flyweight superstar again put the nation of
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May 19, 1985: Gomez vs Lockridge
In recent years the late Rocky Lockridge unfortunately became as well-known for his appearance on the television show “Intervention” and
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred independent combat sports website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part One)
The 1980s were a monumental decade in politics, pop music and, of course, in boxing. Indeed, the eighties stand out
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Feb. 2, 1980: Sanchez vs Lopez I
Danny “Little Red” Lopez had won the WBC version of the featherweight crown in 1976 and no one begrudged him
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Salvador Sanchez: Counterpunch
“I’m convinced that Salvador Sanchez was the best Mexican fighter of all time. Even better than Julio Cesar Chavez.” —
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Jan. 24, 1982: Pedroza vs Laporte
Few champions have ever won as many world title matches as Panama’s Eusebio Pedroza and yet the prolific featherweight’s career
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Traps Of The Masters
Great news, fight freaks. The esteemed Lee Wylie is embarking on a fresh video venture, “Traps Of The Masters,” with
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Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?
Michael Carbert: Several years ago I wrote up a Top 12 Greatest All-Time Mexican Boxers list and to my delight,
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Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse
The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting
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Top Men: Greatest Mexican Boxers
Fight fans are avidly looking forward to this Saturday night as we have what should be an amazing all-action, all-Mexico
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