Whos your Favorite Puerto Rican fighter

[Miburo]

It would seem as though Wilfredo Gómez has been quite forgotten...

[PRPOWERPUNCHES]

Nice thread !!

Here my Top 10, not in any order..


Wilfred Benitez
Benitez was the best defensive fighter of his era, and not by a little. You just had to see him fight once to know it. If you saw him boxing rings around the great Antonio Cervantes, at 17 years old for cripes' sake, or Carlos Palomino or Roberto Duran, you knew how special he was.


Wilfredo Vazquez
Vazquez was a three-division titleholder


Hector Camacho
There are those who still don't take Camacho seriously because of his persona and ring style, but the Camacho who tore through a pair of divisions in the early 1980s was a very good fighter.



Edwin Rosario
In an era that was full of big punchers, Rosario may have been the best.


Miguel Cotto
is the latest in a long line of wonderful prizefighters from Puerto Rico.


Felix Trinidad
Things ended badly for Trinidad, but they do for most fighters.


Juan Laporte
Laporte built a number of wins, combined with 1 loss, including a 7 round knockout of Jean Lapointe.Given a second title shot, this time by the WBA , Laporte met the also legendary World featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza in 1982 , losing a close and controversial split decision. The fight was so close that WBC president Jose Sulaiman decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council 's world title.

This rematch wasn't going to happen, because Sanchez tragically died in a car accident the morning of August 12 , in Mexico City . Then, the WBC decided to put Laporte vs. Colombia n Mario Miranda for the vacant world title in a fight held at the Madison Square Garden . Laporte dropped Miranda in the eighth round and Miranda quit on his stool before the start of the 11th. Juan Laporte, the tough kid from New York who couldnt figure to become a world champ versus the legendary champions of the day, had become a world champion.

Sixto Escobar
He started boxing at the age of 17 and campaigned both in Puerto Rico and Venezuela, where he got his first championship try, a 12-round decision loss to Jose T. Rosales for the Venezuelan Bantamweight title.

In 1936, in Montreal, he made history by knocking out Mexican Baby Casanova to become Puerto Rico's first world champion ever. There would be no other Puerto Rican world champion until almost 30 years later, when Carlos Ortiz won the Jr. Welterweight title, and Escobar immediately became a national hero in Puerto Rico.



José "Chegui" Torres
(born May 3, 1936), is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer. Torres participated in the 1956 Olympic Games. As an Olympian, he won a silver medal as a junior middleweight. On March 30, 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano by technical knockout and won the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association light heavyweight championships, at the moment becoming the third Puerto Rican to win a professional world championship. On 1997 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.[1]


Esteban De Jesus
(August 2, 1951-May 11, 1989) was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benitez. He was trained by Wilfredo's father and Clara's husband, Gregorio Benitez.





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[FUC_U_PAYME]

Miguel Cotto

[warp1432]

Ivan Calderon, guy is fun to watch.

[Xyei]

I'd have to go with Miguel Cotto.

[WifeBeaterClub]

John "Da Squeeze" Ruiz

[Left Hook Tua]

TITO! TITO! TITO!

i know it's kinda weird for a tua guy to root for felix....... i mean they are totally nothing alike.

[El Chicano]

Puerto Rico doesn't have any good fighters

[El Chicano]

John "Da Squeeze" Ruiz

Hahahahahahahah Good one.

[El Chicano]

John Ruiz cancels out all the great fighters P.R. can claim. At least Mexico never had a disgrace to the sport in the form of something that resembles the pile of **** that is John Ruiz.