BoxRec

Just wanted to touch on something that NYDominican said"
Salvador Sanchez, at his relatively young age, he beat all of these top boxers. -----------------
Danny Lopez, Ruben Castillo, Patrick Ford, Juan LaPorte, Roberto Castanon, Nicky Perez, Wilfredo Gomez, Pat Cowdell, Jorge Garcia, and Azumah Nelson."

That's a tremendous list. When rating Sanchez I think people get too wrapped up in that he died at 23 and the what ifs. Sometimes people tend to think that since someone's career was short, it automatically is not as impressive as someone else who had a long career.

He should be rated on what he accomplished. If he was able to beat more really good fighters in a short period time, than he probably deserves to be rated higher than someone with a longer career that didn't rack up as many major wins.

ie- In baseball, if player A hits hits more homeruns, rbis etc. in 12 years than player B did in 20, than player A is usually considered a better hitter than player B.

It's what you do, not how long it took you to do it.

Strong points from Alp.

Kind of interested in King C's take too. Something in it... maybe he wouldn't have got that much better. But he didn;t need to really.

he would have gone on to accomplish a lot more. Pedroza, Arguello, Nelson II and Chavez...

In his last few fights, Sanchez was struggling to make the weight, which could account for the length of his last 3 bouts. I have to believe that was also the reason for his talking about a fight with Arguello at 135. WE really need a full length biography of this guy.

Nile4000 wrote:Salvador was definitely in the top ten as as far as all-time greats in the featherweight division.

It's doubtful, and more than that. Too bad for the tragedy because he had the possibility and the very top. ingenious boxer was