# The 11 Greatest Mexican Boxers of All Time

> Gym-born champions from Tijuana to Guadalajara, with bantamweight terrors and modern pay-per-view headliners in the same field.

*By YPB Team · Published October 22, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-11-greatest-mexican-boxers-of-all-time*

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1. **Julio César Chávez** — score 1000/1000
   Sinaloa-born champion who won world titles in three weight classes and was unbeaten in his first 90 fights.
2. **Érik Morales** — score 791/1000
   Tijuana fighter who won world titles in four weight classes and fought famous trilogies with Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao.
3. **Canelo Álvarez** — score 565/1000
   Guadalajara-born star who has won world titles in four weight classes and became undisputed super middleweight champion in 2021.
4. **Marco Antonio Barrera** — score 565/1000
   Mexico City champion who won titles from super bantamweight to super featherweight and took two of three fights with Érik Morales.
5. **Juan Manuel Márquez** — score 565/1000
   Counterpuncher who won titles in four weight classes and knocked out Manny Pacquiao in the sixth round of their fourth fight in 2012.
6. **Jaime Munguía** — score 565/1000
   Super middleweight contender from Tijuana who won the WBO junior middleweight title and fought Canelo Álvarez in 2024.
7. **José Nápoles** — score 439/1000
   Cuban-born welterweight champion who fought out of Mexico City and beat Curtis Cokes and Emile Griffith.
8. **Daniel Zaragoza** — score 439/1000
   Bantamweight and super bantamweight champion who held WBC titles in the 1980s and early 1990s.
9. **Vicente Saldívar** — score 439/1000
   Southpaw featherweight champion of the 1960s who beat Sugar Ramos for the world title in 1964.
10. **Lupe Pintor** — score 0/1000
   Bantamweight champion of the early 1980s and one of the era's most durable Mexican fighters.
11. **Rubén Olivares** — score 0/1000
   Two-division world champion from Mexico City who won the bantamweight title in 1969 and was feared for his knockout power.

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