He was a Mexican journeyman who scored the odd upset along the way - a 1st round KO of Julio Diaz who at that time had only lost once on a split decision to Angel Manfredy - and was a 22 year old with a 15(6)-6 record.
Then suddenly, in shades of Wales's Steve Robinson, it all started to kick in. He first beat highly touted prospect Ricardo Williams Jr - who was an American Silver Medallist in Sydney 2000 - and thought by many to be a future multi-weight Champion (Williams would later end up in prison for trying to sell cocaine via FedEx
). This was no pushover. At the time Williams had had eight bouts (& 1 no contest) against very decent opposition with a combined record of 121-18-3 and was shite hot. He then stopped a 17-3-1 Brian Adams from New York, outpointed Eleazar Contreras Jr who was a top contender who had beat a couple of world champions. He won all bouts after losing to El Pollo including beating Gregorio Vargas - who had beaten Paul Hodkinson, Tracy Patterson, Ben Tackie & went the distance with Floyd Mayweather.
After that he stopped Ernesto Zavala (18-2) & Guillermo Valdes (12-1) and then VANISHED.
He was all over the boxing grapevine but just stopped fighting. He had a comeback fight 3 years later (a draw against a fighter with a 8-12-2 record) then vanished again.
Effectively his boxing career was all over before his 24th birthday. He seemed to have all the skills to become a serious contender but just stopped.
Does anyone remember him or have any later info on him?
Thanks