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Stanley Ketchel

2018-05-25T09:44:13Z

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[[file:Ibhof-logo.jpg|thumb|right|Class of 1990 Old Timer Category Hall of Fame bio:[http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/oldtimer/ketchel.html click]]]
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*'''Managers''': [[Joe O'Conner]], [[Willus Britt]]
*'''Trainers''': [[Johnny Loftus]]
*'''[[:Category:Stanley Ketchel Gallery|Stanley Ketchel Gallery]]
==Career Overview==
One of the real "characters" of boxing, '''Stanley Ketchel''' was a fearless man whose personality was perfectly reflected by his in-the-ring savagery and dramatic life. The first two-time middleweight champ of the gloved era, he is also considered to be possibly the hardest hitting of all middleweight champions. An unpolished brawler who loved to test an opponent's will to fight, the "Michigan Assassin" faced four hall of famers during his career, some of history's best middleweights, light heavyweights, and heavyweights included among them. [[Nat Fleischer]], the late ring historian and founding editor of ''[[The Ring Magazine|The Ring]]'' magazine, considered Stanley to be the greatest middleweight in history. 
===Early Years===
Born Stanislaus Kiecal to Polish immigrants in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ketchel was a rough, tough brawler even as a youth. He avoided school, instead falling in with a gang of street kids and often getting into fist fights. At twelve years old, he ran away from home, becoming a child hobo. As a teenager he lived in Butte, Montana, where he found employment first as a hotel bellhop and then as a bouncer. This profession obviously led to many scraps that established his reputation as the best fist fighter in town. Soon enough sixteen-year-old Stanley was performing in backroom boxing matches with older locals for twenty dollars a week. He began traveling throughout Montana, offering to take on any man brave enough to face him. Between 1903 and 1906, he lost just twice in thirty-nine contests and, in 1907, moved to California, where he knew most of boxing's big names and big fights waited for him. 
===World Champion===
Stanley continued to win in California against an ever-increasing quality of opposition. On February 22, 1908, he took on his most dangerous opponent yet, [[Mike (Twin) Sullivan]], one of the leading welterweights and middleweights of the era. Ketchel flattened him in less than a round and then fought Mike's brother, [[Jack Sullivan]], for the vacant world middleweight championship. Jack lasted twenty rounds but was eventually knocked out and Ketchel was named the new titleholder. Less than a month later he made his first defense, beginning his three-fight rivalry with [[Billy Papke]], the determined and rugged "Illinois Thunderbolt." On June 4, 1908, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ketchel won a ten round decision over future hall of famer Papke. He then went on to knock out contenders [[Hugo Kelly]] and [[Joe Thomas]] before facing Papke again in a rematch on September 7, 1908. Papke dominated the fight and badly hurt Ketchel in the twelfth round, forcing the referee to stop the fight. Determined to regain the championship, Ketchel went immediately into a third fight with Papke on November 26, 1908 in Colma, California. In the eleventh round of a terrific brawl, Ketchel knocked his man out and became the first two-time middleweight champ. 
After three hard fights with one hall-of-famer, Ketchel went directly into a fight with yet another, [[Philadelphia Jack O'Brien]], who was the reigning light heavyweight champion of the world at the time. In a much anticipated non-title fight held at New York's National Athletic Club on March 26, 1909, Ketchel survived a terrible beating at the hand of the slick, quick O'Brien in the early rounds only to mount a terrific comeback and score four knockdowns in the ninth and tenth rounds. When the final bell rang at the end of the tenth round, O'Brien was lying unconscious on the mat, his head in a resin box in his corner. Under New York rules at the time, though, O'Brien had been saved by the bell and because official decisions were outlawed in New York boxing the fight was declared a "No Decision." The rematch, held on June 9, was a different story. Ketchel demolished O'Brien inside of three rounds. A fourth fight with Billy Papke followed, with Ketchel again winning out in a tumultuous slugfest to defend his championship. This fight took place in the outdoor Mission Street Arena in Colma, California, during a terrible thunderstorm, yet neither fighter relented in his pursuit of victory until Stanley took the twenty-round decision. 
===The Johnson Fight===
Ketchel was by now possibly the most universally admired active prizefighter in America. Meanwhile the reigning heavyweight champion at this time, [[Jack Johnson]], the first black man to win that title, had stirred up a cauldron of controversy and was very likely the most universally despised man in the country, regardless of profession. Though Ketchel and Johnson were good friends, many called for a fight between the two with hopes that Stanley would return the heavyweight crown to the white race. On October 16, 1909, at the Mission Street Arena, Ketchel proved himself one of the pound-for-pound hardest punchers in the history of the sport. Though Johnson got the better of the action by using his greater size (Ketchel was at a twenty-five pound weight disadvantage and nearly a four-inch height disadvantage), Stanley caught Johnson with a hard right hand in the twelfth that put the champion on the floor. All hopes of glory for Ketchel were squashed however, when Johnson immediately rose to his feet and dispatched the challenger with a left-right combination to the jaw. Ketchel went completely unconscious and was counted out on his back. 
===Later Career and Death===
Inspired by his knockdown of Johnson, Ketchel began almost immediately campaigning for a rematch. On March 23, 1910 and overconfident Ketchel, still the world's middleweight champ, fought up-and-coming middleweight [[Frank Klaus]] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stanley had failed to train properly and was lucky the fight was scheduled for just six rounds. Pennsylvania law outlawed boxing decisions but the newspaper reporters who witnessed the fight declared it a draw, with Klaus dominating the early rounds and Ketchel narrowly taking the second half of the fight. It was a similar story just over a month later in Philadelphia when Stanley fought one of cleverest and hardest-hitting boxers of his generation, [[Sam Langford]]. Again the fight lasted the six round distance and resulted in an official "No Decision." Langford was said to take the early rounds and Ketchel the later ones. Most at ringside felt that both men gave a good account of themselves in the brief, but hard-fought, contest. 
On October 15, 1910, while still trying to secure a rematch with heavyweight champion Johnson, Stanley Ketchel was in training at a cattle ranch in Conway, Missouri. That morning he was shot in the chest by ranch hand [[Walter Dipley]], who was allegedly jealous of his girlfriend's (Goldie Smith) attraction to Ketchel, though some suspect the murder was a robbery on the part of Dipley and his girlfriend. A bullet in his lung, Ketchel was dead at age twenty-four. At Stanley's funeral one mourner said, "Start counting over the dear boy. He'll get up."

In 1990, the legendary fighter was part of the inaugural class of inductees into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]]. 
==Factoids==
* Also known as the "Michigan Marvel"
* Inventor of the "[[triple shift]]" punch
* Managed by Joe O'Conner{{ref|SKetchel1}}. Also managed, at least by 1909, by Willie Britt (older brother of Jimmy), who died suddenly Nov. 1, 1909.
*Ketchel was the first boxer to regain the World Middleweight Title after losing it, followed by [[Al Hostak]] and [[Tony Zale]].
[[file:Ketchel.Stanley3.jpg|right|150px|Stanley Ketchel]]
* In October 1910, Ketchel--eating breakfast obliviously at Col. R.P. Dickinson's ''Two Bar Ranch'' farm at Conway, Missouri--was killed by a double-barrelled shotgun blast fired by Walter Dipley, who was jealous over the attention his girlfriend had paid to the middleweight boxing great. Ketchel was only 24-years-old. Dipley got a life sentence.
* A little over 17 years later, on Feb. 16, 1928, Ketchell's father, Thomas Kiccal, 74, was found in the barn loft of the family farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his throat slashed. His son, John Kiccal, the younger brother of Stanley, was discovered in possession of a blood-stained knife and arrested for the murder. It was thought the motive was a dispute over land that Stanley had left to the family, purchased from his ring earnings, and which had recently multiplied in value.
* Upon on his untimely passing at the age of 24. He became the shortest living and, obviously, latest born world champion to die. He succeeded [[Paddy Duffy]] and [[Joe Gans]] then was succeeded by [[Pancho Villa|Francisco Guilledo]] and [[Tom McCormick]], respectively.
* Another [[:Image:Ketchel.Stanley.jpg|Photo]]

== External Links ==
[[file:Ketchel.Stanley4.jpg|left|150px|Stanley Ketchel]]
*Main Wikipedia Ketchel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ketchel Biography]
*[http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/ketchel.htm CBZ Record]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2259 Find a Grave]
*[http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow603d.htm An Ozarks Melodrama - The Trial of Walter Dipley]
 
== References ==
1. {{Note|Ketchel1}}August 22, 1908 ''Tacoma Daily News'' 
2. Ward, Geoffrey C. [[Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson]] 
3. Fleischer, Nat and Sam Andre. [[An Illustrated History of Boxing]] 
4. Roberts, James B. and Alexander g. Skutt. [[The Boxing Register]] 4th ed. 

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[[Category:Polish American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members]]
[[Category:Murdered Boxers]]

Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh

2018-05-21T19:08:37Z

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'''Trainer:''' [[Sophon Phothisophon]]

'''Netrnoi Vorasingh''' died on December 3, 1982 in a motorcycle accident. Upon his passing, he become the youngest (latest born, not shortest living) champion to die. He suceeeded [[Salvador Sanchez]] and was followed by [[Davey Moore (Light Middleweight)|Davey Moore]] in 1988. All three were born in the first half of 1959!

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title=[[WBC Light Flyweight Champion]]|
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[[Category:World Light Flyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Thai World Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]

Gilberto Roman

2018-05-21T18:40:22Z

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[[File:Roman, Gilberto.jpg||left|thumb|250px|Gilberto Roman]]
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'''Trainer:''' [[Nacho Beristain]] 
[[:Image:Gilberto Roman1.jpg|Photo 2]], [[:Image:Gilberto Roman.jpg|Photo 3]] 
[[:File:Gilberto Roman KO Closeup.jpg|KO Closeup]]

== Amateur Career ==
*Purported amateur Record: 90-7
*Represented Mexico as a flyweight at the 1980 Moscow [[Olympic Games]]. His results were:
**1st-round bye
**Defeated [[Alberto Mercado]] (Puerto Rico) RSCI 1
**Lost to [[Peter Lessov]] (Bulgaria) 1-4

== Professional Career ==
*Earl Gustkey of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote: "Roman was a solid technician, an exceptional defensive boxer. He was compact and sturdily built. His muscular build always suggested a power puncher, yet he was more technician than blaster. . . . The 5-foot-3 Roman belonged in a 'How to Box' video. His punches were short, economical, precise, accurate. No one ever saw Roman desperately flailing away. If no punch was there, none was thrown."
*[[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] inductee Rafael Mendoza, Roman's adviser, called Roman "the [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] of the flyweights."
*Had a record of 12-3-1 (2 KOs) in world title fights.
*Had a record of 7-4-1 (1 KO) against former, current and future world titlists.
**Won against [[Antonio Avelar]], [[Jiro Watanabe]], [[Frank Cedeno]], [[Sugar Baby Rojas]] (twice), [[Kiyoshi Hatanaka]], [[Santos Benigno Laciar]].
**Lost against Antonio Avelar, Santos Benigno Laciar, [[Nana Konadu]], [[Sung-Kil Moon]].
**Drew against Santos Benigno Laciar.

== Death ==
*Roman died in an auto accident on June 27, 1990. Police said the car in which he was a passenger was struck by a truck near Chilpancingo, 130 miles south of Mexico City. Roman and four friends were driving from Mexico City to Acapulco. All five people in the car were killed. [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-30/sports/sp-453_1_gilberto-roman]
*Upon his passing he become the youngest (latest born, not shortest living) champion to die. He suceeeded [[Davey Moore (Light Middleweight)|Davey Moore]] and was followed by [[Jose Ruiz]] two years later.

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years=1986 Mar 30 – 1987 May 16
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title=[[WBC Super Flyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Nana Konadu]]|
years=1988 Apr 8 – 1989 Nov 7
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[[Category:1980 Olympians]]
[[Category:Mexican Olympians]]
[[Category:World Super Flyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]

Jose Bonilla (Venezuela)

2018-04-16T17:08:15Z

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[[file:Jose_Bonilla.JPG|left|thumb|Jose Bonilla]]
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== Factoid ==
*Bonilla died after an asthma attack in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 14, 2002.

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title=[[WBA Flyweight Champion]]|
after=[[Hugo Rafael Soto]]|
years=1996 Nov 24 – 1998 May 29}}
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{{s-ttl | title=Latest born world champion to die | years=June 14–24, 2002}}
{{s-aft | after=[[Pedro Alcazar]]}}
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[[Category:World Flyweight Champions]]
[[Category:Venezuelan World Champions]]

John Conteh

2018-04-04T09:23:51Z

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'''Trainer:''' [[George Francis]] 
'''[[:Category:John Conteh Gallery|John Conteh Gallery]]'''

== Amateur Career ==
*1970 ABA middleweight champion
*1971 ABA light heavyweight champion

== Notes ==
*Conteh is one of the celebrities on the album [[:File:BandontheRun.jpg|cover]] of musician Paul McCartney's 1973 "Band on the Run" recording.

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title=[[WBC Light Heavyweight Champion]]|
years=1974 Oct 1 – 1977 May 21 '''Stripped'''
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{{s-ttl | title=Oldest Living World 175lb Champion | years=2015 Nov 15 - ''present}}
{{s-aft | after=incumbent}}
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[[Category:ABA Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Light Heavyweight Champions]]

John Conteh

2018-04-02T20:05:16Z

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[[File:JConteh.jpg|left|260px]]
<boxer>018309</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[George Francis]] 
'''[[:Category:John Conteh Gallery|John Conteh Gallery]]'''

== Amateur Career ==
*1970 ABA middleweight champion
*1971 ABA light heavyweight champion

== Notes ==
*Conteh is one of the celebrities on the album [[:File:BandontheRun.jpg|cover]] of musician Paul McCartney's 1973 "Band on the Run" recording.

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[[Category:ABA Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Heavyweight Champions]]
[[Category:English World Champions]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Boxing Council Light Heavyweight Champions]]

Leavander Johnson

2018-04-01T08:46:12Z

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[[file:Leavander_Johnson.jpg|left|thumb|Leavander Johnson]]
<boxer>005639</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Bill Johnson (Atlantic City)|Bill Johnson]]

 
On June 17, 2005 '''Leveander Johnson''' captured the vacant [[IBF]] lightweight title with a [[Leavander Johnson vs. Stefano Zoff|7th round TKO]] over [[Stefano Zoff]] in Milan (Milano), Italy. This was Johnson's fourth attempt at capturing a version of the World Lightweight Title. He was stopped in the 8th round in 1994 by [[Miguel Angel Gonzalez]] for the [[WBC]] belt; he was also stopped in seven rounds by [[Orzubek Nazarov]] for the [[WBA]] belt in 1997; and in his 3rd attempt he was stopped in the 11th round in 2003 by [[Javier Jauregui]] for the vacant [[IBF]] belt.

Johnson did win the less recognized [[IBO]] lightweight title in 1995, when he stopped [[Fabian Hector Tejeda]] in the 6th round; Johnson never defended this belt.

On September 17, 2005, Johnson defended his IBF lightweight title against [[Jesus Chavez]], on the Barrera-Peden undercard in Las Vegas, Nevada. Johnson was never in the fight and was dominated, taking a pounding in the later rounds, before referee [[Tony Weeks]] [[Leavander Johnson vs. Jesus Chavez|stopped the bout in the 11th round]]. Following the fight Johnson collapsed and was diagnosed with blood clot on the brain, and was induced into a coma. He was rushed into the hospital where he did make progress for a couple of days. However, his condition showed no signs of improvement, and with his organs failing, his family decided to remove care. On September 22, 2005, Leavander Johnson died. He was survived by four children, who were at his side as he died.

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title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jesus Chavez]]|
years=2005 Jun 17 – 2005 Sep 17
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title=Latest Born World Champion to Die |
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[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:NABF Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Ring Fatalities]]
[[Category:2005 Deaths]]

Agapito Sanchez

2018-04-01T08:27:35Z

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'''Manager:''' [[Ricardo Maldonado]] 
'''Trainer:''' [[Francisco Guzman]] 
 

== Death ==

'''Agapito Sanchez''' was pronounced dead on November 15, 2005 after being shot twice in the stomach two days before by an off-duty police officer in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Sanchez had confronted the officer about disrespecting Sanchez's girlfriend. Sgt. Diogenes Nova Rosario, a Dominican air force sergeant, was convicted in the slaying. Nova was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay court costs and a $31,000 fine to the boxer's relatives. [http://www.cbssports.com/boxing/story/9885464]

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before=[[Marco Antonio Barrera]] Vacated|
title=[[WBO Super Bantamweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joan Guzman]]|
years=2001 Jun 23 – 2002 Aug 15 '''Stripped'''
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{{Succession box|
before=[[Leavander Johnson]]|
title=Latest Born World Champion to Die |
after=[[Diego Corrales]]|
years=November 15, 2005 – May 7, 2007
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Agapito}}
[[Category:World Super Bantamweight Champions]]
[[Category:Dominican World Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:Murdered Boxers]]
[[Category:2005 Deaths]]

Diego Corrales

2018-03-30T10:37:44Z

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'''Managers:''' [[Cameron Dunkin]], [[Barrett Silver]] and [[James Prince]] 
'''Trainers:''' [[Ray Woods]], [[Kenny Adams]], [[Joe Goossen]]
 

==Amateur Career==
Corrales compiled an amateur record of 105-12. Some of his highlights were:
*1994 United States Amateur Championships Silver medalist at featherweight
**Lost to [[Frankie Carmona]] on points in the final
*1995 Pan-American Games participant at featherweight, in Mar del Plata, Argentina
**Lost to [[Arnaldo Mesa]] (Cuba) 3-18
*1995 World Championships participant at lightweight, in Berlin, Germany to.
**Lost to [[Marco Rudolph]] (Germany) 5-10

== Career Factoids ==
*Has a record of 7-2 (5 KO) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 5-5 (3 KO) against former or current world titleists.
**Won against [[Gairy St. Clair]], [[Roberto Garcia]], [[Derrick Gainer]], [[Joel Casamayor]], [[Acelino Freitas]], [[Jose Luis Castillo]]
**Lost against [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], [[Joel Casamayor]] (2x), [[Jose Luis Castillo]], [[Joshua Clottey]]

==Death==
Two years to the day from his victory over Castillo in Las Vegas, Corrales died on May 7, 2007 of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas, Nevada. Subsequent autopsy toxicology reports indicated that Corrales was legally drunk with a blood alcohol level of 0.25%

== Corrales versus Castillo Factoid ==

Diego Corrales was supposed to fight Jose Luis Castillo for the third time on June 3, 2006, but the bout never took place when Castillo failed to make weight a second time. Corrales versus Castillo III. press conference [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VQZzAID3IQ&list=PL0B3B170C9F31C288]]

Castillo had also failed to make weight for the second fight. Perhaps Corrales should never have taken the rematch bout due to Castillo's weight issues. Castillo failed to make weight, and a member of his team was fined and suspended for tampering with the scale.

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title=[[WBO Lightweight Champion]]|
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title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Joel Casamayor]]|
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{{s-ttl | title=Latest Born World Champion to Die | years=May 7, 2007 – April 19, 2010}}
{{s-aft | after=[[Edwin Valero]]}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corrales, Diego}}
[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:2007 Deaths]]

Vernon Forrest

2018-03-29T18:58:33Z

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[[file:Forrest.Vernon.jpg|left|thumb|Vernon Forrest]]
<boxer>009047</boxer>
'''Trainers:''' [[Ronnie Shields]], [[Mark Breland]], [[James (Buddy) McGirt]], [[Al Mitchell]] 
'''Managers:''' [[William Baxter]] and [[William Coleman]], [[Al Haymon]]
 

==Olympic Games results==
*Represented the United States at light welterweight at the 1992 Barcelona [[Olympic Games]]
**Lost to [[Peter Richardson]] (Great Britian) on points (8-14), in a first round match.

==World Championships results==
*1991 Silver medallist at light welterweight in in Sydney, Australia.
**Defeated [[Michele Piccirillo]] (Italy) (33-15)
**Defeated [[Nara Cjantrapon]] (Thailand) (22-6)
**Defeated [[Peter Richardson]] (Great Britian) (33-18)
**Defeated [[Candelario Duvergel]] (Cuba) won by DQ 1 (low blow)
**Lost to [[Kostya Tszyu]] (Soviet Union) (9-32)

==Other Amateur results==
'''Claimed Amateur Record''': 225-15
*1990 US National Golden Gloves Bronze medallist at light welterweight, losing to [[Mark Lewis]] (0-5)
*1991 United States Amateur light welterweight champion
**Defeated [[Lamar Murphy]] (4-1)
**Defeated [[Hector Colon]] (3-2)
**Defeated [[Stevie Johnston]] (4-1)
*1992 won the AIBA World Championships Challenge at light welterweight in Tampa, FL.
**Defeated [[Candelario Duvergel]] (Cuba) on points (17-14)
*1992 won the light welterweight Olympic Trials in Worcester, MA. Results were:
**Defeated [[Robert Frazier]] on points (5-0)
**Defeated [[Shane Mosley]] on points (25-14)
**Defeated [[Stevie Johnston]] on points (39-31); and defeated him again at the Box-Offs in Phoenix, also on points (32-19).

==Awards & Recognitions==
*2002 - [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]]
*2002 - [[World Boxing Hall of Fame]] [[WBHOF: Fighter of the Year|"Fighter of the Year"]]: [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/215658921.html?dids=215658921:215658921&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+18%2C+2002&author=--+Rob+Fernas&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=The+Inside+Track%3B+Foreman+Heads+the+Class+for+Boxing+Hall+of+Fame&pqatl=google]

== Career Factoids ==
*Has a record of 6-3 1NC (1 KOs) in World Title fights.
*Has a record of 7-3 (2 KOs) against former or current world titleists.
**Won against [[Santiago Samaniego]], [[Vince Phillips]], [[Shane Mosley]] (twice), [[Ike Quartey]], [[Carlos Manuel Baldomir]], [[Michele Piccirillo]], [[Sergio Mora]].
**Lost against [[Ricardo Mayorga]] (twice), Sergio Mora.

==Titles Held==
*'''[[World Boxing Council]] Light Middleweight Title''' (2007-08, 2008-09)
*'''[[World Boxing Council]] Welterweight Title''' (2002-03)
*'''[[International Boxing Federation]] Welterweight Title''' (2001)
*[[NABF]] Welterweight Title (1998-2000)
*[[WBC]] Continental Americas Welterweight Title (1997)
*[[IBC (Sanctioning Body)|IBC]] Light Welterweight Title (1995)

==Philanthropy==
In 1997, Forrest founded [http://www.destinyschildinc.com/index.html| Destiny's Child Inc.] which provides assistance to the mentally challenged, providing housing and 24-hour supervision by trained professionals. "It was truly his calling," Swanson said of his work with children. "When he wasn't boxing, this was his full-time job. ... When they would see him, they would just light up, and some of them couldn't even talk. Vernon was very much involved. He'd have some of the kids over to his house on Sundays. They were part of his family."[http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iww6sm6YU84TKwA47yI7w_A29OdwD99MLTMO0]

==Death==
Forrest was killed on July 25, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. He reportedly stopped at a gas station to put air in the tires of his Jaguar around 11 p.m. when another car pulled up and he was approached by at least two men in an attempted robbery. At some point, Forrest gave chase. He was shot multiple times. Three men, 28-year-old Jquante Crews, Demario Ware, and the alleged gunman Charmon Sinkfield were convicted of the crime.[http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/pro-boxer-vernon-forrest-100822.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab][http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4356715] [http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/7768514/second-man-found-guilty-2009-shooting-death-boxing-champ-vernon-forrest]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Felix Trinidad]] Vacated|
title=[[IBF Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Michele Piccirillo]]|
years=2001 May 12 – 2001 Dec 12 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Shane Mosley]]|
title=[[WBC Welterweight Champion]]|
after=[[Ricardo Mayorga]]|
years=2002 Jan 26 – 2003 Jan 25}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Sergio Mora]]|
years=2007 Jul 28 – 2008 Jun 7
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Sergio Mora]]|
title=[[WBC Light Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Sergio Gabriel Martinez]]|
years=2008 Sep 13 – 2009 May 21 '''Stripped'''
}}
{{s-bef | before=[[Benny (Kid) Paret]]}}
{{s-ttl | title=Latest Born 147lb World Champion to Die | years=2009 July 25 – ''present}}
{{s-aft | rows=2 | after=incumbent}}
{{s-bef | before=[[Duane Thomas]]}}
{{s-ttl | title=Latest Born 154lb World Champion to Die | years=2009 July 25 – ''present}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Forrest, Vernon}}
[[Category:African American Boxers]]
[[Category:United States Amateur Champions]]
[[Category:1992 Olympians]]
[[Category:American Olympians]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Light Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:The Ring Magazine Champions]]
[[Category:NABF Welterweight Champions]]
[[Category:2009 Deaths]]
[[Category:Murdered Boxers]]

Edwin Valero

2018-03-27T17:58:07Z

Fep70: /* External Links */

[[File:Edwin valero I.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Edwin Valero]]
<boxer>122183</boxer>
* '''[[:Category:Edwin Valero Gallery|Edwin Valero Gallery]]'''
==Career Review==
'''Edwin "Dinamita" Valero''' started boxing at age 12 and compiled a reported amateur record of 86-6 with 45 knockouts. Some reports list 57 knockouts, but Valero confirmed his record after his second professional fight, saying, "Soy estilista y tambien pego duro. En amateur gane 86 peleas y propino 45 nocauts." He was Venezuelan amateur champion three years running, as well as the 2000 Central American & Caribbean Featherweight Champion, beating mexican olympian [[Francisco Bojado]] in the final.

Valero was in a severe motorcycle accident on February 5, 2001. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a fractured skull. About a year later, he was cleared by doctors in Venezuela to fight and turned professional on July 9, 2002 with a first-round knockout of Eduardo Hernandez.

[[Golden Boy Promotions]] signed Valero after his third fight in the United States, a first-round knockout of Tomas Zambrano in Irvine, California on December 18, 2003. Golden Boy tried to put him on a card in New York in January 2004, but he was declined a license after a routine MRI revealed a small blood clot on his brain, the result of the motorcycle accident. The [[New York State Athletic Commission]] placed him on the indefinite suspension list.

After a seventeenth-month layoff, Valero returned to boxing. He fought in Argentina, Panama, Venezuela, Japan, and France.

On February 25, 2006, Valero knocked out [[Whyber Garcia]] in the first round to win the [[WBA]] Fedelatin Super Featherweight Championship. In his next fight, he knocked out [[Genaro Trazancos]] in two rounds, which ended his consecutive first-round knockout streak at eighteen. Valero eclipsed the undocumented 100-year-old record established by [[Young Otto]] in 1906, who reportedly won sixteen straight matches by first-round knockout. Valero said, "In my matches, I focus on winning, but I'm not going for knockouts." Valero's record was surpassed in 2008 when [[Tyrone Brunson]] scored nineteen straight first-round knockouts.

Valero won the WBA Super Featherweight Championship with a tenth-round knockout of [[Vicente Mosquera]] on August 5, 2006 in Panama. He made four successful title defenses before relinquishing the title on September 4, 2008 to move up to lightweight.

In March 2009, Valero was granted a license in Texas, which had him submit to a battery of tests before allowing him to fight there. On April 4, 2009, Valero knocked out [[Antonio Pitalua]] in two rounds to win the vacant [[WBC]] Lightweight Championship in Austin, Texas.

In May 2009, Valero was arrested in Texas and charged with drunk driving. [[Top Rank]] wanted to put him on the [[Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Manny Pacquiao|Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto]] undercard in Las Vegas, but he was denied a U.S. visa because of the pending DUI charge. Valero suggested that the visa had been refused because of his support for Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of U.S. policy.

Valero made his first defense of the WBC Lightweight Championship on December 19, 2009 with a seventh-round stoppage of [[Hector Velazquez]] in Venezuela. His second defense was a ninth-round TKO of [[Antonio DeMarco]] in Mexico on February 5, 2010. Valero advanced his record to 27-0 with 27 knockouts.

After defeating DeMarco, there was talk of Valero fighting [[Manny Pacquiao]] in late 2010. [[Freddie Roach]], trainer of Pacquiao, said, "The number one contender in my mind right now is Valero."

==Arrest & Death==
In March 2010, Valero's 24-year-old wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero, was hospitalized with cracked ribs and a punctured lung. Valero allegedly assaulted her, but his attorney stated that she had fallen down a flight of stairs while inspecting a water tank on a roof.

Valero went to the hospital where his wife was being treated and caused a ruckus. He was arrested on charges of harassing his wife, threatening hospital personnel, and resisting arrest. Valero tested positive for drug and alcohol use after he was arrested and entered rehab under court order.

On April 18, 2010, Valero was arrested after his wife had been found dead in their room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Valencia, Venezuela. She had been stabbed three times. Valero left the hotel room around dawn that morning and told security that he had killed his wife.

On April 19, 2010, Valero was found hanging in his cell by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup. Valero used the sweat pants he was wearing to hang himself from a bar in the cell. He still showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 1:30 a.m. ET.

== Amateur Career ==
*Claimed Amateur Record: 86-6 with 45 knockouts
*Won three straight Venezuelan Amateur Championships.
*Featherweight Quarterfinalist at the 2nd America´s Olympic Qualifier in Tijuana, Mexico.
**Lost to [[Israel Héctor Enrique Pérez]] (Argentina) 2-5
*Featherweight Silver medallist at the 3rd America´s Olympic Qualifier in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
**Defeated [[Zaya Younan]] (Canada) 7-4
**Defeated [[Daniel Jimenez (Azuquita)]] (Dominican Republic) 13-9
**Defeated [[Wilfredo Renderos]] (El Salvador) RSC 1
**Lost to [[Valdemir Pereira]] (Brazil) 7-12 (failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympics)
*Won the 2000 Central American & Caribbean Featherweight Championship in Caracas, Venezuela.
**Defeated [[Garibaldy Keller]] (Costa Rica) RSC 1
**Defeated [[Francisco Bojado]] (Mexico) 9-8

==Minor Titles Held==
*[[WBA]] Fedelatin Super Featherweight Title (2006)

==External Links==
*[http://www.boxingscene.com/pacquiao-valero-what-i-want-not-margarito-says-roach--26086 "Pacquiao-Valero is what I want, Not Margarito: Says Roach" BoxingScene.com, March 17, 2010]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5042082 "Valero enters rehab following arrest" Associated Press, March 30, 2010]
*[http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/30/former-wbc-champ-edwin-valero-enters-rehab/ "Former WBC Champ Edwin Valero Enters Rehab" AolNews, March 30, 2010]
*[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/04/lightweight-boxing-champ-edwin-valero-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murdering-wife.html "Lightweight boxing champ Edwin Valero arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife" Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2010]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5112471 "Police say Valero hanged himself in cell" Associated Press, April 19, 2010]

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{{Succession box|
before=[[Vicente Mosquera]]|
title=[[WBA Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Jorge Linares]]|
years=2006 Aug 5 – 2008 Aug 31 '''Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Manny Pacquiao]] Vacated|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Humberto Soto]]|
years=2009 Apr 4 – 2010 Feb '''Declared Champion in Recess'''|
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{{Succession box|
before=—|
title=[[WBC Lightweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2010 Feb – 2010 Apr 19 '''Champion in Recess Murdered his Wife and Committed Suicide'''|}}
|-
{{s-bef | before=[[Diego Corrales]]}}
{{s-ttl | title=Latest Born World Champion to Die | years=April 19, 2010 – ''present}}
{{s-aft | after=incumbent}}
{{end box}}

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[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Two Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Venezuelan World Champions]]
[[Category:Southpaw World Champions]]
[[Category:2010 Deaths]]
[[Category:Suicides]]
[[Category:Undefeated Boxers]]

Talk:World Boxing Council

2014-01-24T18:53:57Z

Fep70: Answering a few questions

1. Is the bout between [[Humberto Soto]] and [[Francisco Lorenzo]] held on June 28, 2008 recognized as a championship fight with the vacant WBC super featherweight interim world title at stake even if the WBC chose not to award Lorenzo, the winner of the fight according to the Nevada Athletic Commission, the title, ruling the fight a [[No Contest]]?

2. According to the WBC ratings, [[Jorge Linares]] won the WBC featherweight world title on July 21, 2007, the day of his fight with [[Oscar Larios]], which was originally meant to be an eliminator. On July 31, 2007, Linares's predecessor as WBC featherweight world champion, [[In-Jin Chi]], vacated his title. Does that mean that Linares's eliminator fight with Larios has retroactively been upgraded to a fight for the vacant WBC featherweight world title and that Chi's reign is considered to have ended on July 21, 2007 although he announced to vacate his title only on July 31, 2007? Or does Linares's fight with Larios remain an eliminator and Linares was appointed champion without having to win a title fight (as had been the case with [[Ken Norton]], [[Lennox Lewis]] and [[Oscar De La Hoya]] before)? On which date did Chi's reign end? And on which date did Linares's reign begin?
Answer: Linares won the Interim title, then was upgraded to full champion 10 days later.

3. According to [http://www.hbo.com/boxing/people#/boxing/people/marco-antonio-barrera/index.html HBO's biography] on [[Marco Antonio Barrera]], he refused to accept the WBC featherweight title after taking it from [[Erik Morales]] on June 22, 2002: "Despite winning the WBC featherweight crown from Morales, Barrera refused the belt, choosing to set an example for other world-class fighters who don't need a sanctioning body to declare them as champion."

Does that mean that Barrera abandoned the title immediately after winning it? If so, on which date did he vacate his title? Or was he technically stripped of it? Or has Barrera even never held the title with the fight retroactively being declared a non-title affair and Morales being stripped of the title for losing the fight?

The title may have been on the line for Morales only as has been suggested [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4886]. [[Erik Morales vs. Marco Antonio Barrera (2nd meeting)|This wiki fight page]] says, "With the loss, Morales' WBC featherweight title becomes vacant. (Barrera didn't accept the WBC title)"
Answer: Morales lost it against - but not to - Barrera, so it became vacant. Had Morales won it would have counted as a successful title defence.

4. What is the final ruling on [[Graciano Rocchigiani]] and [[Roy Jones Jr.|Roy Jones Jr.'s]] world championship statuses during the time both of them were world champions? Rocchigiani won the vacant world title on March 21, 1998 and has to be considered WBC light heavyweight world champion until April 15, 2000 according to a verdict. Did the judgement also affect Roy Jones's world championship status during that period of time? And what was Jones's status before the beginning of his shared reign? He had announced he would vacate his WBC light heavyweight world title.

Has there been an interim reign or a reign as champion in recess by either boxer as has been suggested [http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/hbo42598.htm]: "The WBC, which at one point had stripped Jones, has instead labeled him a "champion in recess", thus making Rocchigiani the "interim champion." If that is correct, on which dates did these reigns begin and end?

5. According to the WBC Championship Fights Statistic which was once presented on the official WBC site, there were sixteen fights with the WBC heavyweight world title at stake between 1963 and 1969. Were those fights the following ones?

[[Sonny Liston]] vs. [[Floyd Patterson]] on July 22, 1963

Sonny Liston vs. [[Muhammad Ali]] on February 25, 1964

Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965

Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson on November 22, 1965

Muhammad Ali vs. [[George Chuvalo]] on March 29, 1966

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Henry Cooper]] on May 21, 1966

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Brian London]] on August 6, 1966

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Karl Mildenberger]] on September 10, 1966

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Cleveland Williams]] on November 14, 1966

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Ernie Terrell]] on February 6, 1967

Muhammad Ali vs. [[Zora Folley]] on March 22, 1967

[[Joe Frazier]] vs. [[Buster Mathis]] on March 4, 1968

Joe Frazier vs. [[Manuel Ramos]] on June 24, 1968

Joe Frazier vs. [[Oscar Natalio Bonavena]] on December 10, 1968

Joe Frazier vs. [[Dave Zyglewicz]] on April 22, 1969

Joe Frazier vs. [[Jerry Quarry]] on June 23, 1969

6. Universally recognized or WBA world champions participated in the inaugural fights for WBC world titles. Had those world champions been named WBC world champions before the inaugural WBC title fights took place? If so, on which date(s)? Or did they compete for vacant titles? Here is a list of the inaugural world title fights:

Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson competed for the vacant (?) WBC heavyweight world title on July 22, 1963 assuming it was the inaugural bout for this title.

[[Harold Johnson]] and [[Willie Pastrano]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC light heavyweight world title on June 1, 1963.

[[Dick Tiger]] and [[Gene Fullmer]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC middleweight world title on August 10, 1963.

[[Denny Moyer]] and [[Stan Harrington]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC super welterweight world title on February 19, 1963.

[[Emile Griffith]] and [[Jorge Jose Fernandez]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC welterweight world title on December 8, 1962.

[[Roberto Cruz]] and [[Eddie Perkins]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC super lightweight world title on June 15, 1963.

[[Carlos Ortiz]] and [[Douglas Vaillant]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC lightweight world title on April 7, 1963.

[[Flash Elorde]] and [[Johnny Bizzarro]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC super featherweight world title on February 16, 1963.

[[Davey Moore (Featherweight)|Davey Moore]] and [[Sugar Ramos]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC featherweight world title on March 21, 1963.

[[Eder Jofre]] and [[Katsutoshi Aoki]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC bantamweight world title on April 4, 1963.

[[Pone Kingpetch]] and [[Hiroyuki Ebihara]] competed for the vacant (?) WBC flyweight world title on September 18, 1963.

==See also==
*[[Ken Buchanan vs. Ruben Navarro|Buchanan vs. Navarro]] for WBC title? [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=87637]
*WBC Diamond Championship [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=146891]
*WBC Silver Championship [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3119718#p3119718]
*[[Category talk:World Champions By Weight Class#Were vacant titles at stake in inaugural title fights?|Were vacant titles at stake in inaugural title fights?]]
*Fights for vacant or nonvacant (interim) world titles? [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=84097]
*Title or nontitle fight if one contestant is overweight? [http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=102837]

--[[User:Emaster|Emaster]]

Chris John

2012-01-27T19:30:11Z

Fep70:

[[file:Chris John.JPG|left|thumb]]
<boxer>078475</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[Craig Christian]] 
'''Manager:''' [[Craig Christian]] 
 

Besides being a professional boxer, '''Chris John''' is also a member of the national ''wushu'' team ([[wikipedia:Wushu (sport)|wushu]]: a Chinese martial art, similar to kungfu), often representing Indonesia in some multi-event games, like the [[wikipedia:Sea games|South East Asian Games]] or the [[wikipedia:Asian Games|Asian Games]]. His best achievements as a wushu athlete are:

*Gold Medalist, at the South East Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1997
*Bronze Medalist, at the South East Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2001
*Gold Medalist, Indonesian multi events games (National Olympic), Jakarta, 1996
*Gold Medalist, Indonesian wushu championship

John started learning boxing when he was six-years-old, and was trained by his father Johan Tjahjadi (aka Thjia Foek Sem), a former amateur boxer. John is the third Indonesian to win a boxing world title, following [[Ellyas Pical]] (three times [[IBF]] junior bantamweight champion, 1985-1989), and [[Nico Thomas]] (IBF strawweight champion, 1989). Before turning professional in 1997, John was an amateur boxer with a few local bouts since 1995 when he was only 15 years old for a local championship in his hometown of Banjarnegara. He then moved to Semarang, where he was handled by trainer and manager [[Human:75967|Sutan Rambing]] -- a well-known trainer in Indonesia and ex-amateur and professional fighter of the 1970s.

Formerly known as the "Indonesian Thin Man," as a tribute to the Nicaraguan lightweight legend, the "Explosive Thin Man"--[[Alexis Arguello]], in February '06 John proclaimed a new nick name, "The Dragon" replacing his old nick name the "Indonesian Thin Man", as he said he is no longer thin, besides the dragon is an animal which brings luck in Chinese people's belief (John is an Indonesian of Chinese descent).

John split with Sutan Rambing in early 2005, then joined Harry's Gym in Perth, Australia, where he is currently trained and managed by [[Craig Christian]].

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before=[[Derrick Gainer]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Yuriorkis Gamboa]] Regular Champion|
years=2005 – June 27, 2009 '''Regular Champion''' '''Upgraded to Super Champion''' June 27, 2009– 2010 '''Super Champion''' '''Declared Super Champion in Recess''' 2010 – 2010 Dec 5 '''Super Champion in Recess''' 2010 Dec 5 – present '''Super Champion'''|
}}
{{end box}}

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[[Category:World Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:Indonesian World Champions]]
[[Category:Boxers who played pro sports]]

Felix Sturm

2010-08-16T11:32:16Z

Fep70: /* Amateur Career */ Between Sturm's two matches with Castillejo, the Spaniard became the only champ, NOT regular.

[[file:Sturm.Felix.jpg|left|thumb|Felix Sturm]]
<boxer>031252</boxer>
'''Manager:''' [[Klaus-Peter Kohl]] ( - 2009), [[Roland Bebak]] (2010 - ) 
'''Trainers:''' [[Michael Timm]] ( - 2009), [[Fritz Sdunek]] (2010 - ) 
 

==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[IBF]] Youth middleweight title (2003)
*[[WBO]] Intercontinental middleweight title (2003; 2004-2005)

==Awards & Other Achievements==
*2004 ''Fighter of the Year'' in Germany

==Amateur Career==
[[file:Felix_Sturm.JPG|right|300px|Sturm: March 4, 2005 Photo: © Wolfgang Schiffbauer]]

Highlights included:
*1997 2nd place at light middleweight in German National Championships, losing to [[Juergen Braehmer]] on points
*1998 German National light middleweight champion, defeating [[Jorg Rosomkiewicz]]
*1999 competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States as a Light Middleweight. His results were:
**Defeated [[Andrey Tsurkan]] (Ukraine) points
**Lost to [[Yermakhan Ibraimov]] (Kazakhstan) points
*1999 German National light middleweight champion, defeating [[Jorg Rosomkiewicz]]
*2000 1st place at light middleweight at European Championships in Tampere, Finland. His results were:
**Defeated [[Karoly Balzsay]] (Hungary) points
**Defeated [[Miroslaw Nowosada]] (Poland) points
**Defeated [[Dmitri Usagin]] (Bulgaria) points
**Defeated [[Andrei Mishin]] (Russia) 3-1
*Represented Germany at the 2000 [[Olympic Games]] in Sydney, Australia. His results were:
**Defeated [[Dilshod Yarbekov]] (Uzbekistan) points
**Defeated [[Richard Rowles]] (Australia) TKO 3
**Lost to [[Jermain Taylor]] (United States) points

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{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Javier Velazco]]|
title=[[WBO Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=2003 Sep 13 – 2004 Jun 5
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Maselino Masoe]] Regular Champion|
title=[[WBA Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Javier Castillejo]] Regular Champion|
years=2006 Mar 11 – 2006 Jul 15 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Javier Castillejo]]|
title=[[WBA Middleweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2007 April 28 – 2010 '''Upgraded to Super Champion''' 2010 – present '''Super Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

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[[Category:2000 Olympians]]
[[Category:German Olympians]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:German World Champions]]
[[Category:Promoters||Sturm, Felix]]

Nate Campbell

2010-08-16T11:29:38Z

Fep70: Marquez won the WBO & WBA super in the same contest

[[file:Nate Campbell2.JPG|left|thumb|180px|Nate Campbell]]
<boxer>033494</boxer>
'''Trainer:''' [[John David Jackson]]

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Diaz]] Super Champion|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Juan Manuel Marquez]]|
years=2008 Mar 8 – 2009 Jan 10 '''Super Champion Vacated'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Diaz]]|
title=[[IBF Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Miguel Vazquez]]|
years=2008 Mar 8 – 2009 Feb 13 '''Stripped (failed to make weight)'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Juan Diaz]]|
title=[[WBO Lightweight Champion]]|
after=[[Juan Manuel Marquez]]|
years=2008 Mar 8 – 2009 Feb 13 '''Stripped (failed to make weight)'''|
}}
{{end box}}

==External link==
[http://www.fightnews.com/?p=840 Statement by Campbell on relinquishing the WBA lightweight title]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Nate}}
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:American World Champions]]
[[Category:NABF Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:NABA Super Featherweight Champions]]

Juan Manuel Márquez

2010-05-17T19:20:58Z

Fep70: /* Family */ adding info

[[file:Juanmarquez.JPG|left|thumb|Juan Manuel Marquez]]
<boxer>012222</boxer>
'''Manager & Trainer:''' [[Ignacio Beristain]]
 

==Biography==
'''Juan Manuel Marquez''' is a 4 time World Featherweight Champion. Marquez was the [[WBO]] #1 contender for two years while [[Naseem Hamed]] was the WBO featherweight champion. To Hamed's credit, he did offer Marquez a fight in the summer of 2000, but Marquez declined. Marquez did end up getting a title shot against [[Freddie Norwood]]. both fighters were down in the fight. Norwood escaped with a disputed points decision.

After four years of racking up victories, Marquez got a second title shot, which came against [[Manuel Medina]], with him stopping the game veteran in the later rounds. Marquez made a few minor defenses plus unifying the [[WBA]] and [[IBF]] titles by dethroning [[Derrick Gainer]]. Marquez then took on 2 time world champion [[Manny Pacquiao]] in 2004. In a thrilling Fight Of The Year candidate, Marquez was knocked down three times in the first round, but gamely fought back to win many of the remaining rounds. Fans hotly debate, who deserved the win, but the official result was a [[Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez|draw]]. Marquez refused a rematch with Pacquiao, demanding too much money, and his career continued to stall.

Marquez was stripped of his IBF title as his scheduled defense aginst [[Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym]] failed to draw a bid, after it was sent to purse bid by the IBF. Marquez was also stripped of his WBA title. In March 2006, Marquez traveled to Indonesia to face WBA featherweight champion [[Chris John]], for just $31,500, and lost a [[Chris John vs. Juan Manuel Marquez|unanimous decision]].

Just 5 months later to capture the interim [[WBO]] Featherweight Title, he made 1 title defense until being upgraded to full status champion, making him a 3 time Featherweight Champion.

He moved up to the Super Featherweight division and challenged 3 weight world champion [[Marco Antonio Barrera]] for his [[WBC]] title, it was a very tactical fight with Marquez focusing on effective counter punching and Barrera focusing on fast combination punching, after 12 evenly matched rounds, Marquez was awarded a unanimous decision victory. He made 1 successful title defense, outpointing [[Rocky Juarez]].

In early 2008, Marquez took on [[Manny Pacquiao]] for a second time, like in many fights in his career, Marquez found himself in yet another evenly matched fight, after 12 rounds, Pacquiao was awarded a disputed split decision victory.

Yet unlike other close points defeats, Marquez retained his recognition at the elite level, getting moved up to #2 pound for pound. He continued to chase big fights as he moved up yet another weight class to challenge 2 time world champion [[Joel Casamayor]] for his lineal and [[Ring Magazine]] lightweight title. Marquez stopped the game Cuban in round 11 to become champion in a third weight class.

The next year Marquez squared off against 3 time lightweight champ Juan Diaz, both fighters exchanged clean heavy punches n a crowd pleasing action fight, by the middle rounds Marquez's punches started to take a toll on diaz as his knees dipped on several occasions. In Round 8, a left uppercut opened a bad cut on the the right eyelid of Juan Diaz. He was latter wobbled in the same round from another left uppercut. In Round 9, a combination sparked by a right hook and finished with a left uppercut sent Diaz falling forward and down to all fours and underneath the bottom rope, he made the count, then a tremendous right uppercut dropped Diaz flat on his back in the center of the ring.

Marquez stepped up again to another weight class, all the way up to Welterweight and faced [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], he was not able to do anything in that fight, and lost a 12 round shutout.

==Titles Held==
*[[Ring Magazine]] Lightweight Title (2009-present)
*'''[[World Boxing Organization]] Lightweight Title''' (2009-present)
*'''[[World Boxing Association]] Lightweight Title''' (2009-present)
*'''[[World Boxing Council]] Super Featherweight Title''' (2007-08)
*'''[[World Boxing Organization]] Featherweight Title''' (2006-07)
*'''[[World Boxing Association]] Featherweight Title''' (2003-05)
*'''[[International Boxing Federation]] Featherweight Title''' (2003-05)
*[[NABF]] Featherweight Title (2002)
*[[USBA]] Featherweight Title (2002)
*[[WBO]] [[NABO]] Featherweight Title (1997-99, 2000)

==Family==
Marquez's brother is two-time world champion [[Rafael Marquez]].

{{start box}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Johnny Tapia]] Vacated|
title=[[IBF Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Valdemir Pereira]]|
years=2003 Feb 1 – 2005 '''Stripped'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Derrick Gainer]] Lost bid for Super Championship|
title=[[WBA Featherweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2003 Nov 1 – 2005 '''Super Champion''' '''Stripped'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Scott Harrison]] Vacated|
title=[[WBO Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Steven Luevano]]|
years=2006 Dec 6 – 2007 Apr 1 '''Vacated'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Marco Antonio Barrera]]|
title=[[WBC Super Featherweight Champion]]|
after=[[Manny Pacquiao]]|
years=2007 Mar 17 – 2008 Mar 15
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Nate Campbell]] Vacated|
title=[[WBA Lightweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2009 Feb 28 – present '''Super Champion'''|
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Nate Campbell]] Stripped (failed to make weight)|
title=[[WBO Lightweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2009 Feb 28 – present |
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marquez, Juan Manuel}}
[[Category:World Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Super Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:World Lightweight Champions]]
[[Category:Three Division World Champions]]
[[Category:Mexican World Champions]]
[[Category:NABF Featherweight Champions]]
[[Category:NABO Featherweight Champions]]

Felix Sturm

2010-05-17T19:16:26Z

Fep70: /* Amateur Career */ Castillejo was the only, not regular, champ by the time of the second contest.

[[file:Sturm.Felix.jpg|left|thumb|Felix Sturm]]
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'''Trainer:''' [[Michael Timm]] 
 
==Regional & Minor Titles==
*[[IBF]] Youth middleweight title (2003)
*[[WBO]] Intercontinental middleweight title (2003; 2004-2005)

==Awards & Other Achievements==
*2004 ''Fighter of the Year'' in Germany

==Amateur Career==
[[file:Felix_Sturm.JPG|right|300px|Sturm: March 4, 2005 Photo: © Wolfgang Schiffbauer]]

Highlights included:
*1997 2nd place at light middleweight in German National Championships, losing to [[Juergen Braehmer]] on points
*1998 German National light middleweight champion, defeating [[Jorg Rosomkiewicz]]
*1999 competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States as a Light Middleweight. His results were:
**Defeated [[Andrey Tsurkan]] (Ukraine) points
**Lost to [[Yermakhan Ibraimov]] (Kazakhstan) points
*1999 German National light middleweight champion, defeating [[Jorg Rosomkiewicz]]
*2000 1st place at light middleweight at European Championships in Tampere, Finland. His results were:
**Defeated [[Karoly Balzsay]] (Hungary) points
**Defeated [[Miroslaw Nowosada]] (Poland) points
**Defeated [[Dmitri Usagin]] (Bulgaria) points
**Defeated [[Andrei Mishin]] (Russia) 3-1
*Represented Germany at the 2000 [[Olympic Games]] in Sydney, Australia. His results were:
**Defeated [[Dilshod Yarbekov]] (Uzbekistan) points
**Defeated [[Richard Rowles]] (Australia) TKO 3
**Lost to [[Jermain Taylor]] (United States) points

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{{Succession box|
before=[[Hector Javier Velazco]]|
title=[[WBO Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Oscar De La Hoya]]|
years=2003 Sep 13 – 2004 Jun 5
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Maselino Masoe]] Regular Champion|
title=[[WBA Middleweight Champion]]|
after=[[Javier Castillejo]] Regular Champion|
years=2006 Mar 11 – 2006 Jul 15 '''Regular Champion'''
}}
{{Succession box|
before=[[Javier Castillejo]]|
title=[[WBA Middleweight Champion]]|
after=—|
years=2007 April 28 – 2010 '''Upgraded to Super Champion''' 2010 – present '''Super Champion'''
}}
{{end box}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sturm, Felix}}
[[Category:2000 Olympians]]
[[Category:German Olympians]]
[[Category:World Middleweight Champions]]
[[Category:German World Champions]]