Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - A boxing champion from South Texas was found stabbed to death on Monday, police said.
Robert Quiroga, 34, was pronounced dead Monday morning at University Hospital in San Antonio.
A passer-by on Interstate 10 flagged down an officer, who found Quiroga lying next to his car, San Antonio police spokesman Sgt. Gabe Trevino said.
Quiroga, nicknamed "Pikin," or little hot pepper, for his scrappiness in the ring, was the first San Antonio boxer to win a major world title.
He beat Juan Polo-Perez in 1990 in England, winning the International Boxing Federation super flyweight title. Quiroga successfully defended the title five times and retired in 1995. He finished with a 20-2 record with 11 knockouts.
Police said Quiroga was stabbed in the abdomen, back and left shoulder, and the incident is being treated as a murder. No suspects are in custody.
Police interviewed a friend of Quiroga's who had been drinking with him at a bar three blocks from where the body was found, Trevino said in Monday's online edition of the San Antonio Express-News. He said they learned little that helped with the investigation.
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