The Gomez fights will be in the supplementary bouts. It also links nicely to Lopez FOTY vs Mike AyalaAnd there's me even started doing your supplementary bouts and you can't even be bothered doing my main ones, I'm hurtHorse wrote:I'll have to get going with watching the fights for these challenges soon, as the backlog is starting to build up.
There are some seem to think he had peaked young and may not have gone on to much greater things.Naandrew wrote:Wow !! what talent Sanchez had at 21 yrs of age. I'll try and watch his most notable fights over the next couple of weeks. Just looking at his resume he had 11 fights in 2.5 yrs after being world champion.
He gave Lopez a big beat down in that fight though. It surprises me there was a rematch so soon.
It does seem to be a big "what if" had Sanchez not died at such a young age.
Good little shootout, fun fight. Gomez got up and really gave some value for money in this futile challenge. It's a better fight than people give it credit for. Although Sanchez ended up winning decisively.davie wrote:Sanchez vs Gomez
1. 10 - 8 Sanchez. So close to stopping a real quality operator in the 1st round
2. 9 - 10 Gomez. Recovered well and came out firing to make a point. Sanchez took control of the middle of the round but Gomez nicked it in the last 30s for me
3. 10 - 9 Sanchez Some real quality landed by both, hard to pick a loser for the last 2 rounds but Sanchez looked to hurt him at one point
4. 10 - 10 Even. Sanchez turned it to a boxing match for the first half, with Wilfredo cornering him in the second, plenty good punches thrown.
5. 10 - 9 Sanchez. Again boxed well to begin but when Gomez started pressure he had some success. Sanchez nicked this one late with a flurry or two
6.10 - 9 Sanchez took control of the action here and boxed well. Gomez struggling to pin him down now
7.10 - 9 Sanchez good round, well boxed. Gomez with a few big swinging eye catching shots but Sanchez boxing so well with nice short tidy punches
8. KO. Another one where the ref really needs to protect a man stuck on the ropes and give a standing 8 count. But I think the shot that put him on the ropes was the beginning of the end anyway
A real quality fight between 2 quality operators, rounds 2-5 could have gone either way but Sanchez quality boxing took over and he hurt Gomez and marked him up throughout the fight. It's impressive how composed Sanchez looks. Never marked, never hurt, never out of breath and always looks like he's controlling things
Arguello changed expression as Pryor was knocking him out...like "Oh NO, here I go again." ... Chavez changed expression as his corner tried to convince him to keep going when he quit vs De La Hoya.. Like "No, No, NO, NO!" ... Pedroza changed expression after Alfonso Zamora knocked him seemingly dead. He stirred.. The count took 16 slow seconds but the referee finally reached 10 and waved Pedroza out.. Pedroza kept bouncing up and down like he was ready to continue.. His expression was shocked and hurt that the referee stopped it.. Sometimes the faces fighters make are really funny.elmersalsa wrote:The great Salvador Sanchez had great poise and concentration. He was always focused. Nothing rattled him. Few fighters had that deep concentration in the ring like the greats like Sanchez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Alexis Arguello, Eusebio Pedroza and Carlos Monzon. They rarely changed expression in a fight.
I used to hate Danny Lopez. Somehow in a fight after being behind, he always found a way to win. He was a never-say-die type of fighter. He was relentless.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:This was shocking live. Nobody knew Sanchez, if there was internet then Lopez would have been lampooned. Similar to Saad/qawi where you were so used to seeing those guys come back from insane punishment that the one sided nature was still packed with drama because you expected the rally that never came. Sal knocked out Tito's dad.