Ezzard wrote:Pedroza was a great fighter but for whatever reason didn't get the covergae he deserved.
Sorry but he didn't get the coverage that he deserved because he was fighting mostly cab drivers and bums just like Serrano. How many championships fights did Serrano fought? If I’m not mistaking his record on championships fights was something like 14 w, 2 L and 1 D. But then again look at the competition. The same with Pedroza. The only name in Pedroza’s record is Olivares and that was when Olivares instead of fighting should have been collecting his social security.
Pedroza was KO in 2 by Zamora, had a very hard time against La Porte, and drew against Bernard Taylor, all in his prime. As a matter of fact he would have lost to La Porte if he did not employ his usual dirty tactics. Pedroza is over-rated in my opinion and his record proves that. That is not a sign of the elite, and in a rich era of featherweights he his competition should have been better. In the era that Pedroza and Serrano were fighting there were plenty of good fighters to pick from and they both chose to take the easy road.
Now I ask you and please be honest, based on championship record of Serrano (14W, 2L, and 1D), does Serrano belongs in the IBHOF?
These are some of the names that Pedroza could have fought but inexplicably we don’t find any of the them on his resume:
Salvador Sanchez, Wilfredo Gomez, Azuma Nelson, Alexis Arguello, Bobby Chacon, Danny Lopez, and the list could go on…
Instead we find Olivares (he should have been retired by then), Patrick Ford, Bashew Sibaca, Jose Caba, a green Lockridge (who at best was a C+ border line B-) and La Porte that he had a very hard time with.
Take a close look at this record and you will see his is over-rated.
Getting closer to getting a pretty accurrate count.