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When you take a look at some of the best boxers of all time, from Willie ‘Will’ Wisp ‘Pep a Ricardo’ Finito ‘López!
Pep, from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, had more victories than most and much less the smallest boxers. Twice he supported the featherweight title. From November 1942 to October 1948. Again, from February 1949 to September 1950.
PEP’s final record was an excellent 229-11-1 with 65 stops. Once he told the Medium Rocky Grazian weight champion: “You couldn’t hit me with a fist full of stones!”
Pep won his first 62 fights before losing a ten round decision against former lightweight champion Sammy Angott on March 19, 1943. He defeated Chacky Wright for a unanimous decision of 15 assaults at the age of 20 to win the Nysac FEATHER World Championship on November 20, 1942. 1946.
PEP had a record of 134-1-1 when he lost to Sandy Saddler, 86-6-2, for a fourth round knockout on October 29, 1948. He defeated Saddler in a rematch for a unanimous decision of 15 assaults to recover the title on February 11, 1949.
Pep retired in 1959, only to return in 1965, and fought ten times more before retiring for the good at the age of 1943. On April 26, 1965, he defeated Jackie Lennon, and this writer was present, although he was not yet a writer. He won 9 of 19 losing his final fight against Calvin Woodland.
The minimum WBC weight champion, WBA, Wbo Ricardo ‘Finito’ López was 51-0-1 with 38 strikes, from Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico.
López had 47-0 when Rosendo Álvarez retained him to a draw, 24-0, by D-TD in 7 rounds. He was shot down in the second round. Álvarez lost a point in the seventh round due to the rule of the accidental head of the CMB. It was on August 7, 1998. On November 13, in La Revancha, López won a divided decision to add the vacancy of the AMB to his WBC title.
In the next fight, López won the FIB lightweight world title, the defeat of Will Grigsby, 14-1-1, on October 2, 1999 by divided decision. Then he won his last two fights on unemployment about Anucha Phothong, 38-5-1, and Zolani Petelo, 17-2-2.
The world weight champion Jimmy ‘The Mighty Atom’ Wilde, 121-1-1, won the title stopping Dick Heasman, 4-0, in London in the second round. It was from Tylorstown, Wales, the United Kingdom.
Wilde lost his last two fights that end with a record of 132-4-1 with 98 stops.
Pascual Pérez was the 1948 Olympic gold medalist in London. At 4:11 nicknamed ‘the Leon Mendoza’ of Ciudad Mendoza, Argentina.
On November 26, 1954, Pérez, 23-0-1, won the world title of fly weight defeating Yoshio Shiral, 46-6-4, in Tokyo, Japan. In the rematch he scored a knockout in 5 rounds.
Pérez had 51-0-1, when he lost to Sadao Yaoita, 27-6, in Tokyo, Japan, in January 1959. He won the revenge in November, with a tenth round. It ended with a record of 84-7-1 with 57 stops.
