Edwin Valero

[Like a Boss]

Wasted talent. Wasted life. Interesting article though:



Born into poverty in the tough streets of Merida in Venezuela, Edwin Valero was no stranger to standing his ground undeterred by weight or height he quickly made a name for himself as a street thug, where he and his friends would ride around the tight streets of Venezuela looking to steal and rob for personal gain.

His mother and father separated while he was still young, aged twelve Edwin was left homeless left to fend for himself in a city that took no prisoners, he would occasionally find shelter in a local boxing gym or more often than not tough it out in the unforgiving streets of Merida.

The boxing gym was a place where he felt at home, making his amateur debut aged 12 Edwin it has been said was a natural in a time where he racked up a reported 86 wins against just 6 loses becoming and defending the Venezuelan amateur title on three occasions as well as also taking top honours at the Central and South American Championships

So it was just a matter of time before El Dinamita (The Dynamite) exploded on to the professional scene but like everything associated with Edwin, nothing was that straight forward............

continued here...............http://topclassboxing.co.uk/Articles/Th ... alero.html

[palooka]

Thanks for posting Valero was some talent but terribly flawed, what horrible mistakes to make and to leave his kids motherless is, really, unforgivable.

[Counter-puncher]

I m o that article is both appallingly badly-written, and borderline apologia with at best a questionable moral compass (he beat his wife frequently, but of course this is ascribable to 'demons' which.act upon the helpless subject Valero in a way it is simply impossible for him to control)

Add to that fact that he questions Brunsons record owing to the quality of his opponents and doesn't look at the assortment of taco-sellers and streetsweepers that made up the vast majority if valeros early ko victims

Basically the writer has almost no writing gifts and he is so far up valeros ass he could clean his teeth from there.

[Counter-puncher]

Oh, and that's not to mention the fact he sees fit to mention Manny pacquiao's opinion on a potential conspiracy

That's right, Manny pacquiao, well-known authority on matters of criminal justice in Venezuela. Fvck off

[Datsue]

I m o that article is both appallingly badly-written, and borderline apologia with at best a questionable moral compass (he beat his wife frequently, but of course this is ascribable to 'demons' which.act upon the helpless subject Valero in a way it is simply impossible for him to control)

Add to that fact that he questions Brunsons record owing to the quality of his opponents and doesn't look at the assortment of taco-sellers and streetsweepers that made up the vast majority if valeros early ko victims

Basically the writer has almost no writing gifts and he is so far up valeros ass he could clean his teeth from there.

You saved me the bother bruv, TY. So much fan-fiction (well, nearly actually slash fiction) written about the likes of Valero, always glossing over little tiny teeny errors of judgement like beating the ever-living shite out of his missus.

I've seen some try to pin this little peccadillo (she wasn't the only woman he beat, either) on brain injuries he suffered in that motorbike crash; which leads one inexplicably to the conclusion "Well he certainly shouldn't've been fvcking fighting then, should he?" to which the response is always a deafening silence.

"Tragedy" is an oft-misused word. The only tragedy in this man's life is that he was allowed to box on by greedy motherfuckers all the way along (since 2004!) & that those same interests & the willing fucknugget "fans" who cheered him on weren't interested in allegations of him hurting a woman in 2009 (I even remember them being rubbished on here, when they came about).

This led to the proper tragedy, the beating & murder of his wife.

& people wondered why I got so antsy over money allowing Jermain Taylor back in the ring despite his subdural haematoma, even though Dr Margaret Goodman quit the NSAC over it.

[Counter-puncher]

Almost as weirdly for such an obvious, precum-leaking fanboy,he mentions nothing notable about valeros style or the way he boxed, not sure he even mentions hes a southpaw, great right hook rather than left hand, fvck all.

[gilgamesh]

Honestly I figure Edwin Valero went about as far as he ever going to in his career at the time he was cut short. The fact that he died undefeated with all of his wins coming by knockout will always have people saying he could've done this, and he could've done that, but in my opinion he had already pretty much reached the limits of how far his talent would take him. He had reached the status where fights coming up for him in the near future (around the time of his death) would've been Juan Manuel Marquez and other upper echelon talents like that.

I believe Juan Manuel Marquez would've counter punched the bejesus out of him, and knocked him out in a fairly one sided fight, and from that point onward the myth of how badass Valero was would've been gone.

[Datsue]

Honestly I figure Edwin Valero went about as far as he ever going to in his career at the time he was cut short. The fact that he died undefeated with all of his wins coming by knockout will always have people saying he could've done this, and he could've done that, but in my opinion he had already pretty much reached the limits of how far his talent would take him. He had reached the status where fights coming up for him in the near future (around the time of his death) would've been Juan Manuel Marquez and other upper echelon talents like that.

I believe Juan Manuel Marquez would've counter punched the bejesus out of him, and knocked him out in a fairly one sided fight, and from that point onward the myth of how badass Valero was would've been gone.

[BoxBuzz]

Valero was no Sanchez, and does not deserve this sort of speculation. He was never truly tested. And never showed a hint of truly superlative skills. IMHO.

Not to say he was not well above average, he was. But not top 100 material regardless of imaginations fueled by that "magic zero".