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The man who encouraged a young Julio Cesar Chavez to start boxing, Juan Antonio Lopez, is battling cancer. The former two-time world title challenger from the same town as Chavez, Culiacan in Mexico, is currently receiving treatment for cancer and leukemia.
Take a look at Lopez's astonishing record on BoxRec and the 'names' he fought. He twice challenged Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gomez for the WBC super-bantamweight title - and Gomez didn't have many opponents willing to come back for a second go! He also fought the legendary Brazilian of another era, Eder Jofre.
Lopez was a friend of Chavez's father, and agreed to take Julio Cesar down to the gym as a boy. "From his very first spar," said Lopez later. "His left hook to the body was there."
He later served as a sparring partner to Chavez for many years.

bennie wrote:The man who encouraged a young Julio Cesar Chavez to start boxing, Juan Antonio Lopez, is battling cancer. The former two-time world title challenger from the same town as Chavez, Culiacan in Mexico, is currently receiving treatment for cancer and leukemia.
Take a look at Lopez's astonishing record on BoxRec and the 'names' he fought. He twice challenged Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gomez for the WBC super-bantamweight title - and Gomez didn't have many opponents willing to come back for a second go! He also fought the legendary Brazilian of another era, Eder Jofre.
Lopez was a friend of Chavez's father, and agreed to take Julio Cesar down to the gym as a boy. "From his very first spar," said Lopez later. "His left hook to the body was there."
He later served as a sparring partner to Chavez for many years.

Sound news (again).

Yep, those are two of the greatest there in Gomez and Jofre.

For me, I think its a travesty that Jofre never gets a big mention in the P4P debates. He spanned two generations and was awesome. To come back a beat Vincente Salividar was one of the greatest achievements in boxing history.

In Salvidar were not talking an IBO standard champion, we was an all time great - but got beaten by a very old Jofre.

Good luck to him, he's a real warrior.
I remember watching him give Gomez a real fight on the Holmes/Cooney undercard, watching on closed circuit in the cinema.

Didn't realise he was with Chavez..

MightyWarrior wrote:Good luck to him, he's a real warrior.
I remember watching him give Gomez a real fight on the Holmes/Cooney undercard, watching on closed circuit in the cinema.

Didn't realise he was with Chavez..

Yeah, that's where I remember him from. He gave Gomez a good fight, though you always felt the vicious-punching champion was just biding his time. And so it proved when he took out the Mexican with a brutal left uppercut to the body in the 10th. A fight later, Gomez used the same punch to drop Lupe Pintor in the 14th round of an absolute classic. Pintor beat the count, but the punch had taken all the remaining fight out of him and Gomez quickly finished it.
Incidentally, Graham Houston never mentioned the body shot that floored Pintor. He just says Pintor went down from an accumulation of head shots. It's something I've noticed in Houston, who also downplayed the brutal right uppercut to the body that finished Andy Ganigan in his wonderful slugfest with the legendary Alexis Arguello. He seems to believe that body shots can't finish a man! Great writer. But he's got a real blind spot there.

bennie wrote: Yeah, that's where I remember him from. He gave Gomez a good fight, though you always felt the vicious-punching champion was just biding his time. And so it proved when he took out the Mexican with a brutal left uppercut to the body in the 10th. A fight later, Gomez used the same punch to drop Lupe Pintor in the 14th round of an absolute classic. Pintor beat the count, but the punch had taken all the remaining fight out of him and Gomez quickly finished it.
Incidentally, Graham Houston never mentioned the body shot that floored Pintor. He just says Pintor went down from an accumulation of head shots. It's something I've noticed in Houston, who also downplayed the brutal right uppercut to the body that finished Andy Ganigan in his wonderful slugfest with the legendary Alexis Arguello. He seems to believe that body shots can't finish a man! Great writer. But he's got a real blind spot there.

That bodyshot Arguello hit Ganigan with was one of the most brutal I've ever seen - almost went straight through him - and that was after Ganigan had shockingly put Arguello down earlier in the fight.