Some fight fans call Salvador Sanchez the greatest Mexican fighter of them all. Some fight fans suggest Danny Lopez deserves to be ranked as one of the most consistently exciting lower-weight fighters of them all.
Promoter Bob Arum says what he has been seeing in the ring from Japanese star Naoya Inoue is “scary.” The Top Rank boss spoke with members of the media, as filmed by Fight Hub, and Arum said the late, great Salvador Sanchez was a great fighter who “maybe had that ability.”
If he had lived, had his life not been so cruelly taken from him in a car smash at the age of just 23, Mexican great Salvador Sanchez would be celebrating his 65th birthday today.
Julio Cesar Chavez, Carlos Zarate, Vicente Saldivar, Ruben Olivares, Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera, Canelo Alvarez – Salvador Sanchez. Just who deserves to be rated as THE greatest Mexican fighter of them all?
It’s coming up 40 years ago when the great Salvador Sanchez was tragically killed in a car accident on a highway near Queretaro, Mexico.
Salvador Sanchez is a former featherweight world boxing champion who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.