Boxing: Best Peurto Rican Fighter

Who do you think is the best Peurto Rican fighter out there.I think it could be COTTO or RUIZ.

I know he's retired, but I think Felix Trinidad is the best Puerto Rican fighter out there and I hope he returns to the ring.

Without question. The greatest puerto rican boxer ever was Felix Trinidad. Its a shame he retired. He was World Champion in 3 different weight classes!!

[Edited on 10-4-2003 by Ocelot]

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Here is a List of Championships Trinidad held during his career (41-1 34 KO's)

IBF World Welterweight Title
(defeated Maurice Blocker)

WBC World Welterweight Title
(defeated Oscar de la Hoya)

WBA World Super Welterweight Title
(defeated David Reid)

IBF World Super Welterweight Title
(defeated Fernando Vargas)

WBA World Middleweight Title
(defeated William Joppy)

[Edited on 10-4-2003 by Ocelot]

Very impressive! There's no doubt he still has the potential to be the best, but you cant blame him for hanging up the gloves. Some fighters fight way too long in my opinion, destroying thier brain and their image. I wouldn't be surprisd to see him come back though.

Yes Trinidad WAS a great fighter with a awesome record but what about the fighters now.

Cotto in my opinion seems to be the best,i heard that after he won one of his fights everybody was given a day off work.

Miguel Cotto is a good Prospect. And I mean prospect. He has yet to prove himself against World Class Boxers. So I take a wait and see approach on him. As for Trinidad he was the best and if he decided tor return I think he would be the best again. Trinidad defeated the best fighters out there during his career and he KO'd most of them except for his loss to Hopkins.

Yes your right we will have to see,have you heard of Kermit Citron,i have just heard his name so do not know much about him.Is he any good?

No I haven't heard of that guy. But I'll look up some info on him to see what I can find out.

Found a newspaper clipping about Kermit Cintron thats about it so far.


... Reading, PA -- Local fighter Frankie The Educator Sanchez (San Luis,CO -- 11-5-1 6KO's), was stopped in the 5th round by Kermit Citron..



[Edited on 14-4-2003 by TRD]

I've done some searching online about cintron but came up empty.

Also i heard he sparred with
WBA welterweight champion Andrew "Sixhead" Lewis ( if he still is)quite a while ago.

Other than that nothing

[Edited on 14-4-2003 by TRD]

Found his record's

KERMIT CINTRON

18-0, 17 KO's

2000
10/7 Jesse Williams Lancaster, PA TKO 2
10/19 Lawrence Brooks Harrisburg, PA KO 1
11/21 Danny Rodriguez Dickson City, PA TKO 4

2001
1/12 Willis Silver Philadelphia, PA TKO 1
1/19 Vernon Meels Norfolk, VA TKO 1
2/9 George Turner Reading, PA TKO 1
3/15 Kareem Whitehurst Allentown, PA TKO 1
3/29 Genaro Andular Philadelphia, PA KO 1
4/28 Leroy Brown Pottstown, PA TKO 2
5/31 Leon Pearson Harrisburg, PA W 6
8/18 Said Ouali Uncasville, CT KO 5
9/25 Andre Baker Reading, PA KO 3

2002
2/16 Omar Davila San Antonio, TX TKO 2
3/15 Alexis Perez Fernwood, PA TKO 2
5/10 Patrick Thorns El Paso, TX TKO 4
7/19 Otilio Villareal Reading, PA TKO 2
8/24 Ian MacKillop Atlantic City, NJ TKO 2

2003
2/14 Frankie Sanchez Reading, PA TKO 6

Seems like he is a up and comming fighter from Carolina,Peurto Rico with a lot of Knockout's.

Wow pretty impresive record. I'll be looking into it.

His record looks good, what weight class does he fight?

Originally posted by ProudAmerican
His record looks good, what weight class does he fight?

He fight's Welterweight and he was the WBC welterweight youth champion.He didn't start boxing till he was 19!! and he is still only 24.

I will try to find out some more...

I'm surprised not many people have heard of him..I hadn't till someone metioned his name to me..He sure has a impressive record so far and one to watch out for...

[Edited on 15-4-2003 by TRD]

"Killer" Cintron Update: Team Cintron says the welterweight prospect's progress has far surpassed their expectations and they are very happy with advances made in finalising their third week of the recovery trail.

It appears that the healing process has been an overall success thus far; all doubts concerning the success of the surgery, or more specifically, whether or not it would affect his devastating power, has been dismissed as far as Camp Cintron is concerned. Much of said progress being attributed to strength and conditioning coach John Schaeffer.


LINK


www.secondsout.com...

[Edited on 26/11/03 by TRD]

Originally posted by Ocelot
Without question. The greatest puerto rican boxer ever was Felix Trinidad. Its a shame he retired. He was World Champion in 3 different weight classes!!

[Edited on 10-4-2003 by Ocelot]

[Edited on 10-4-2003 by Ocelot]

Yea i agree.

You damm right you agree. Trinidad is the MAN!