Monday, September 03, 2007

10 greatest fighters from .....

I saw a thread on CBS Sportsline talking about the greatest Mexican fighters ever. Here are the top 10s of various countries based on my rankings -- which I tweaked again to give a little more weight to WBO champions as well as the rare unified champions of the past 24 years.

So here are the top 10 Mexican fighters:

1. Salvador Sanchez, 1975-82, 56.049
2. Ricardo Lopez, 1985-01, 55.587
3. Julio Cesar Chavez, 1980-05, 54.110
4. Carlos Zarate, 1970-88, 52.574
5. Vicente Saldivar, 1961-73, 50.623
6. Chiquita Gonzalez, 1984-95, 49.145
7. Erik Morales, 1993-07, 48.883
8. Marco Antonio Barrera, 1989-07, 47.984
9. Jorge Arce, 1996-07, 46.902
10. Miguel Canto, 1969-82, 45.789

Here are the five best Puerto Ricans:

1. Wilfredo Gomez, 1974-89, 62.665
2. Carlos Ortiz, 1955-72, 58.805
3. Felix Trinidad, 1990-05, 54.623
4. Hector Camacho, 1980-05, 48.258
5. Miguel Angel Cotto, 2001-07, 47.938

The five best from the United Kingdom:

1. Lennox Lewis, 1989-03, 50.661
2. Joe Calzaghe, 1993-07, 49.601
3. Naseem Hamed, 1992-02, 49.407
4. Ricky Hatton, 1997-07, 47.348
5. Freddie Welsh, 1905-22, 47.195

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