Morales vs Barrera or Gomez vs Pintor: Which Was the Greatest Super Bantamweight Fight of All-time?

[elmersalsa]

Which fight was the best fight at 122lbs?
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik "El Terrible" Morales (I)

Or

Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor?

[Wee Tommy]

Which fight was the best fight at 122lbs?
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik "El Terrible" Morales (I)

Or

Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor?

If you edit the post to make it a Poll will work better.

Gomez Pintor for me.

[goose 5]

Morales versus Barrera gets my vote because they fought at a furious pace. But they were both classics !

[elmersalsa]

I just saw the two fights on YouTube and all I got to say was "wow!"

But, in my honest opinion, Barrera vs Morales was more fast-paced than Gomez vs Pintor.

Barrera vs Morales were at the same level in skill and both were strong in that weight of 122lbs

Meanwhile, Pintor had to go up 4 pounds and the physicality against Gonez was not up to par. He was almost on the ropes most of the time. In both fights, those 4 fighters received a lot of punishment. Pintor went down because of exhaustion more than the punches in the 14th round. He just couldn't go any further against someone bigger than he.

I just wished that Barrera vs Morales fights were 15 rounds instead of 12.

There's another 122lbs title fight held in France about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a Frenchman against a guy from Thailand. I don't know their names but it was another terrific fast paced fight that need honorary mention. I will look at it on YouTube

[elmersalsa]

Also, by watching Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gomez vs Lupe Pintor, I just can't see how Bazooka would have won against the great Salvador Sanchez in a rematch.

Sanchez was in another level of Pintor. In a different class. And Pintor gave Bazooka lots of problems. I imagine a rematch with Sanchez would have been the same or worse.

[giacomino]

Gomez-Pintor to me was the best fight of the 1980s besides Hagler-Hearns and Duran-Leonard I.

[Wee Tommy]

I just saw the two fights on YouTube and all I got to say was "wow!"

But, in my honest opinion, Barrera vs Morales was more fast-paced than Gomez vs Pintor.

Barrera vs Morales were at the same level in skill and both were strong in that weight of 122lbs

Meanwhile, Pintor had to go up 4 pounds and the physicality against Gonez was not up to par. He was almost on the ropes most of the time. In both fights, those 4 fighters received a lot of punishment. Pintor went down because of exhaustion more than the punches in the 14th round. He just couldn't go any further against someone bigger than he.

I just wished that Barrera vs Morales fights were 15 rounds instead of 12.

There's another 122lbs title fight held in France about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a Frenchman against a guy from Thailand. I don't know their names but it was another terrific fast paced fight that need honorary mention. I will look at it on YouTube

[Counter-puncher]

Gomez-Pintor to me was the best fight of the 1980s besides Hagler-Hearns and Duran-Leonard I.

there's a decent amount of competition- you can add Arguello - Pryor and Holyfield - Qawi- but it is certainly to be included in the same sentence.

[giacomino]

Gomez-Pintor to me was the best fight of the 1980s besides Hagler-Hearns and Duran-Leonard I.

there's a decent amount of competition- you can add Arguello - Pryor and Holyfield - Qawi- but it is certainly to be included in the same sentence.

Both great fights. I think I liked Gómez-Pintor so much because there were regular back and forth momentum shifts and brutal punching and Pintor seemed unbreakable, until he wasn’t at the end. Pintor was such a hard man, Gómez was considered a little bit of damaged goods after getting his cheekbone broken in the first round vs Sanchez

[Counter-puncher]

i think people vastly understate just how much Pintor was in that fight; Gomez (as was his wont at this point) threw the kitchen sink at him a couple of times but Pintor was always defending intelligently and countering back, and then once Gomez gassed he had a torrid time of it from Pintor's bodyshots and jolting jabs/ etc. i've seen people express a view that Gomez kinda dominated or beat him up for a lot of the early rounds

[elmersalsa]

I just saw the two fights on YouTube and all I got to say was "wow!"

But, in my honest opinion, Barrera vs Morales was more fast-paced than Gomez vs Pintor.

Barrera vs Morales were at the same level in skill and both were strong in that weight of 122lbs

Meanwhile, Pintor had to go up 4 pounds and the physicality against Gonez was not up to par. He was almost on the ropes most of the time. In both fights, those 4 fighters received a lot of punishment. Pintor went down because of exhaustion more than the punches in the 14th round. He just couldn't go any further against someone bigger than he.

I just wished that Barrera vs Morales fights were 15 rounds instead of 12.

There's another 122lbs title fight held in France about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a Frenchman against a guy from Thailand. I don't know their names but it was another terrific fast paced fight that need honorary mention. I will look at it on YouTube

Thanks. That's the fight that I am talking about!

What about Israel Vazquez vs Rafael Marquez four-fight series at 122lbs? Which was their best fight?

Also a fight of Soo Hwang Hong vs Hector Carrasquilla was a true classic.

[emallini]

Good fights