Salvador Sanchez vs. Hector Camacho

[APerno]

August 7th, 1983 Salvador Sanchez vs. Hector Camacho 12 Rounds for the vacant WBC Super Featherweight Title.

IMO a pick'em if there ever was one; would have been nice.

Not that Rafael Limon wasn't deserving but barring tragedy I suspect it would have been Sanchez's fight; it was Camacho's 'coming out party.'

[DrDuke]

Sanchez, possibly by stoppage.

[APerno]

Sanchez, possibly by stoppage.

I agree I felt at this time Sanchez probably had too much experience for the newbie Camacho; although a stoppage over 12 rounds wouldn't seem likely to me, Camacho did over the years prove he could take a good punch and could be very difficult to hit cleanly twice in a row.

At Super FW in '83 Sanchez by UD
At LW in '86 Camacho by by UD

[BoxBuzz]

I'd lean to Sanchez, but wasn't Camacho a bigger guy?

At any rate I do agree that Camacho could take a punch...but once he really did prove he could absorb a big punch.....it seems he also decided he wanted as little of it as possible from that point on. He was an aggressor that turned into a dancer.

[APerno]

Yea, someone else suggested that Rosario ruined him as a fighter. I always felt, had the Rosario fight been 15 rounds Rosario may have stopped Camacho.

P.S. Camacho was the bigger guy that is why I feel if they had met three years later at 135 Camacho might have prevailed, but at 130 in 1983, I guess I would go with Sanchez. But a tough fight either way.

[Nile4000]

Camacho would win a close Ud. As great as Salvador was, he would be facing a different animal that he has never dealt with. I think the same thing would happened if he faced Kenty, Davis jr, or even Pazienza.

[APerno]

Camacho would win a close Ud. As great as Salvador was, he would be facing a different animal that he has never dealt with. I think the same thing would happened if he faced Kenty, Davis jr, or even Pazienza.

Pazienza was definitely a bigger man, possibly too big for Sanchez; at the end I wondered if he wasn't juicing.

[Nile4000]

Camacho would win a close Ud. As great as Salvador was, he would be facing a different animal that he has never dealt with. I think the same thing would happened if he faced Kenty, Davis jr, or even Pazienza.

Pazienza was definitely a bigger man, possibly too big for Sanchez; at the end I wondered if he wasn't juicing.

You know, Im thinking he probably was, maybe one of the first, but it opens a lot of cans of worms somewhere.

[BoxBuzz]

Thinking about the Pazienza statement.....the guy fit the descriptor of "roid rage" on several occasions as well.

I suppose where there's smoke, you could find the fire. It's thought provoking for sure.