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Juan Laporte (born November 24, 1959) is a former boxer who was born in Guayama
Guayama, Puerto Rico

Guayama is a municipality of Puerto Rico founded in January 29, 1736 and located on the Southern Coastal Valley region, bordering the Caribbean, south of Cayey, Puerto Rico; east of Salinas, Puerto Rico; and west of Patillas, Puerto Rico and Arroyo, Puerto Rico....
, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
.

Laporte won the 1976 112lb New York Golden Gloves
New York Golden Gloves

This amateur boxing tournament is considered by many boxing aficionados as one of the three most elite Golden Gloves titles, along with the Chicago Golden Gloves and the Intercity Golden Gloves....
 Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island
Long Island

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's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch Center in the 1977 118lb Open Championship. Laporte trained at the Lunar Boys Club in Brooklyn, New York. He had an amateur record of 29-6, according to the March 1983 The Ring magazine.

Laporte moved to New York
New York

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 at a young age, where he grew up into a pretty well known contender, but one that many boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 critics didn't consider to be material to become a world champion earlier in his career.

Laporte built a number of wins, combined with 1 loss,including a 7 round knockout of Jean Lapointe.






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Juan Laporte (born November 24, 1959) is a former boxer who was born in Guayama
Guayama, Puerto Rico

Guayama is a municipality of Puerto Rico founded in January 29, 1736 and located on the Southern Coastal Valley region, bordering the Caribbean, south of Cayey, Puerto Rico; east of Salinas, Puerto Rico; and west of Patillas, Puerto Rico and Arroyo, Puerto Rico....
, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
.

Amateur career

Juan Laporte won the 1976 112lb New York Golden Gloves
New York Golden Gloves

This amateur boxing tournament is considered by many boxing aficionados as one of the three most elite Golden Gloves titles, along with the Chicago Golden Gloves and the Intercity Golden Gloves....
 Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch Center in the 1977 118lb Open Championship. Laporte trained at the Lunar Boys Club in Brooklyn, New York. He had an amateur record of 29-6, according to the March 1983 The Ring magazine.

Professional career

Juan Laporte moved to New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 at a young age, where he grew up into a pretty well known contender, but one that many boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 critics didn't consider to be material to become a world champion earlier in his career.

Laporte built a number of wins, combined with 1 loss,including a 7 round knockout of Jean Lapointe. But he still was an unknown when given his first chance at a world championship on December 1980 in San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas

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.

He met legendary Mexican world Featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez
Salvador Sánchez

Salvador S?nchez Narvaez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de M?xico....
 there. Laporte made Sanchez work hard and won a handful of rounds
Salvador Sanchez vs. Juan Laporte

The Salvador Sanchez vs. Juan Laporte fight was a boxing encounter that took place on December 13, 1980, in El Paso, Texas, for the World Boxing Council world Featherweight title....
, while apparently managing to not get hurt by any of Sanchez's punches. He came out, however, on the short end of a 15 round unanimous decision, as expected. But his stock rose after that fight.

Laporte then fought future world champion Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge

Rocky Lockridge , is a former professional boxing....
 in 1981 at Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

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, scoring a second round knockout to become the United States
United States

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 Featherweight champion.

Given a second title shot, this time by the WBA
World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
, Laporte met the also legendary World featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza

Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too....
 in 1982, losing a close and controversial split decision. The fight was so close that WBC president Jose Sulaiman
José Sulaimán

Jos? Sulaim?n is a Mexico boxing official of Lebanon-descent. He is the president/godfather of the World Boxing Council.Sulaim?n is known in the boxing world as an administrator for the WBC for more than three decades....
 decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council
World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council was initially created by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo L?pez Mateos, to create an international boxi...
's world title.

This rematch wasn't going to happen, because Sanchez died in a car accident the morning of August 12, in Mexico City
Mexico City

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. Then, the WBC decided to put Laporte vs. Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
n Mario Miranda
Mario Miranda

Mario Miranda is a well-known Indian cartoonist based in Loutolim,Goa, India. He was awarded thePadma Bhushan in 2002, and Padma Shri in 1988....
 for the vacant world title in a fight held at the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

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. Laporte dropped Miranda in the eighth round and Miranda quit on his stool before the start of the 11th. Juan Laporte, the tough kid from New York who couldn't figure to become a world champ versus the legendary champions of the day, had become a world champion.

Laporte defended his title twice, vs Ruben Castillo and Johnny De La Rosa, both 12 rounds decision wins, then lost it to another Puerto Rican world champion, the legendary Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez

Wilfredo G?mez is a former boxing and three time world champion. Nicknamed "Bazooka", G?mez had one of the highest knockout win percentages in professional boxing, winning 88 percent of his bouts by knockout....
.

In 1985, he went to Ireland
Ireland

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, where he lost a ten round decision to future world champion Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan

Finbar Patrick McGuigan Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Barry McGuigan , nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxing who became a world Featherweight champion....
.

In 1986, Laporte fought Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez

Julio C?sar Ch?vez Gonz?lez is a legendary Mexico professional boxing....
 at the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

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, and many thought Laporte should've deserved the 12 round decision that night, but he lost a majority decision in a contest for Chavez's WBC world Jr. Lightweight title.

His career went on and off after that day, and in 1989, his son died in a drowning
Drowning

Drowning is death from suffocation caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral Hypoxia and cardiac arrest....
 accident. Laporte buried his title belt along with his son.

Upon hearing this, Sulaiman sent him a new world title belt to show him support and respect from the boxing community. Laporte lost another disputed decision, this time to former world Jr Welterweight champion Billy Costello
Billy Costello

Billy Costello is a former professional Boxing in the United States....
 in 1999 and then finally retired from boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
.

Life after Boxing


He currently works with the city of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
's athletic department.

See also

  • List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions
    List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions

    In Puerto Rico, boxing is considered a major sport, having produced more amateur and professional world champions than any other sport in its history....