{"id":65955,"date":"2017-02-07T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:15:41","slug":"salvador-sanchez-vs-eusebio-pedroza-who-wins-who-was-the-overall-more-accomplished-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955","title":{"rendered":"Salvador Sanchez Vs Eusebio Pedroza &#8211; Who Wins &#038; Who Was the Overall More Accomplished Fighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1620\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1620\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1620_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"01e23488ee\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1620\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who Wins &amp; Who had the more accomplished career?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1620-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4125\" name=\"poll_1620\" value=\"4125\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4125\">Sanchez wins &amp; had the more accomplished career.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4126\" name=\"poll_1620\" value=\"4126\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4126\">Pedroza wins &amp; had the more accomplished career.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4127\" name=\"poll_1620\" value=\"4127\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4127\">Pedroza Wins &amp; Sanchez had the more accomplished career.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-4128\" name=\"poll_1620\" value=\"4128\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-4128\">Sanchez wins &amp; Pedroza had the more accomplished career.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1620);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1620); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1620-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-65956 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SanchezMain-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"sanchezmain\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Jeffrey \u201cItalian Medallion\u201d Cellini<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two Hall-of-Fame fighters. Two great featherweight champions. Both held a share of throne at the same time. Unfortunately, they never faced each other in the ring to determine who was better. Which of these two legends had the more accomplished career?<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Sanchez, 44-1-1, 32 KO\u2019s was a complete fighter who possessed speed, power and excellent counter-punching skills. Sanchez won the WBC Featherweight Championship by stopping Danny Lopez in thirteen rounds on February 2, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Besides defeating Lopez again in a rematch, Sanchez defended his title against Ruben Castillo (47-1), Patrick Ford (16-0), and Juan LaPorte. In his biggest challenge, against unbeaten Hall of Famer Wilfredo Gomez, Sanchez scored a stoppage win in the 8th round. Two more defenses would follow, before Sanchez stopped future great Azumah Nelson in the 15th round in his final fight. Tragically killed in an automobile accident in the prime of his career, the Mexican great was never able to add his legacy. Sanchez was 10-0 in world title fights. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eusebio Pedroza, 44-6-1, 25 KO\u2019s, who was a hard puncher and aggressive boxer, won the WBA World Featherweight title by defeating Cecilio Lastra by technical knockout in the 13th round on April 15, 1978. He would go on to score a record-setting 19 defenses\u2013mostly against very solid<a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=65955\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-65957 size-full\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/200px-Pedroza.jpeg\" alt=\"200px-pedroza\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> competition. The Panamanian scored high-quality wins included Patrick Ford, Juan LaPorte, and Bernard Taylor. Despite a 2nd round knockout loss to bantamweight titleholder Alfonso Zamora in his first attempt for the crown, and then another knockout defeat in the following contest, Pedroza was able to claim the featherweight belt just three fights later. \u201cEl Alacran\u201d finally lost his title in England, being defeated by Northern Ireland&#8217;s Barry McGuigan in London by a 15-round decision in his 20th defense.<\/p>\n<p>In a head-to-head clash, Sanchez likely endures Pedroza\u2019s dirty tactics and secures a split decision victory. \u201cEl Alacran\u201d would surprise the Mexican early with his power and win most of the early rounds. However, Sanchez, who was a strong finisher in the championship rounds, would rock the Panamanian late in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Sanchez rates slightly ahead of Eusebio Pedroza as the better fighter, but Pedroza\u2019s 19 title defenses make him the more accomplished of the two all-time great fighters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5w77-3T8fw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeffrey \u201cItalian Medallion\u201d Cellini Two Hall-of-Fame fighters. Two great featherweight champions. Both held a share of throne at the same time. Unfortunately, they never faced each other in the ring to determine who was better. Which of these two legends had the more accomplished career? Salvador Sanchez, 44-1-1, 32 KO\u2019s was a complete fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16565],"class_list":["post-65955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-salvador-sanchez-vs-eusebio-pedroza-who-wins-who-was-the-overall-more-accomplished-fighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65955"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}