Julio César Chávez
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Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer
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He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound
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 boxer in the world. In a career that spanned over twenty-five years, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established 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...

 Super Featherweight
Super Featherweight
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 in 1984, WBA
World Boxing Association
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 Lightweight
Lightweight
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 in 1987, WBC Lightweight in 1988, WBC Super Lightweight in 1989, IBF
International Boxing Federation
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 Light Welterweight
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-Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...

 in 1990, and WBC Super Lightweight in 1994.

Julio César Chávez was known for his outstanding punching power, devastating body attack, remarkable strong chin and the relentless stalking of his opponents. He ranks #24 on ESPN
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's 50 Greatest Boxers Of All Time. On December 7, 2010, he was inducted in the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame
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 for the Class of 2011. He's the father of undefeated prospect Omar Chávez
Omar Chávez
Omar Alonzo Chávez Carrasco is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Youth Intercontinental Welterweight Champion. He's the son of legendary boxing champion Julio César Chávez and brother of current WBC Middleweight Champion, Julio César Chávez, Jr.-Personal life:Omar was born in the...

 and current WBC
World Boxing Council
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 Middleweight
Middleweight
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 Champion, Julio César Chávez, Jr.
Julio César Chávez, Jr.
Julio César Chávez Carrasco , is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Middleweight Champion. His younger brother Omar Chávez is also an undefeated prospect who fights at Welterweight....


Early years

Julio César Chávez was born on July 12, 1962 in Culiacan
Culiacán
Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

,Sinaloa
Sinaloa
Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

, Mexico. His father, Rodolfo Chavez, worked for the railroad, and Julio grew up in an abandoned railroad car with his five sisters and four brothers. He began boxing as an amateur at the age of sixteen and then he moved to Culiacán
Culiacán
Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

 to pursue a professional career. Chávez came from a poor family and became a boxer for money, he stated: "I saw my mom working ironing and washing peoples clothes, and I promised her I would give her a house someday and she would never have that job again."

Early career and Super Featherweight title

Chávez made his professional debut at age 17. In his 12th fight, on March 4, 1981, Chávez faced Miguel Ruiz in Culiacán
Culiacán
Culiacán is a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest city in the state of Sinaloa as well as its capital and capital of the municipality of Culiacán. With 675,773 inhabitants in the city , and 858,638 in the municipality, it is the largest city in the state of Sinaloa...

, Sinaloa
Sinaloa
Sinaloa officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales....

. At the end of the first round, Chavez landed a blow that knocked out Ruiz. Delivered as the bell sounded, the blow was ruled a disqualification in the ring and Ruiz was declared the winner. The next day, however, after further review, the Mexican boxing commission reversed the result and proclaimed Chávez the winner.

Chávez won his first championship, the vacant WBC super featherweight title, on September 13, 1984, by knocking out fellow Mexican Mario "Azabache" Martínez
Mario Martinez (boxer)
Mario Martínez is a former Mexican boxer best known for losing to fellow Mexican Julio César Chávez for a vacant world title. in 1984, it is said that such bout catapulted Chavez's career.-Career:Martinez turned pro in 1980...

 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
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 in Los Angeles, California. Martínez had been the betting favorite in the bout. On April 19, 1985, Chávez defended his title against number one ranked contender Ruben Castillo (63-4-2) by knocking him out in the sixth round. On July 7, 1985, Chavez defeated future champion Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

 via a second round knock out. On August 3, 1986, Chavez won a twelve round majority decision over former WBA and future IBF Super Featherweight champion Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge , is a former boxer and world champion. As a professional, he is perhaps best known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat, in a first-round knockout for the WBA super featherweight championship.-Amateur career:...

 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. In his next bout, he defeated former champion Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte is a former boxer who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.-Amateur career:Juan Laporte won the 1976 112 lb New York Golden Gloves Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch...

 by a twelve round unanimous decision. On March 18, 1987, he defeated number one ranked challenger Francisco Tomas Da Cruz (27-1-0) by third round knockout. He successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title a total of nine times.

Stepping up to Lightweight

On November 21, 1987, Chávez moved up to the lightweight division and faced WBA lightweight champion Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

. Prior to the bout, there were concerns about how Chávez would handle the move up in weight against the hard punching Puerto Rican. Chávez commented, "Everything I've accomplished as champion, and the nine title defenses, would be thrown away with a loss to Rosario." The two fighters nearly exchanged blows during a press conference after Rosario threatened to send Chávez back to Mexico in a coffin. Chávez would ultimately give a career defining performance as he defeated Rosario by an eleventh round TKO to win the title. HBO Punchstat showed Rosario landing 263 of 731 punches thrown in the fight (36%) and Chavez 450 of 743 (61%). After the bout, Sports Illustrated ran the headline, "Time To Hail César: WBA lightweight champion César Chávez of Mexico may be the world's best fighter."

On April 16, 1988, Chávez defeated number one ranked contender Rodolfo Aguilar (20-0-1) by sixth round technical knockout. On June 4, 1988, he successfully defended his title against former two-time champion Rafael Limón
Rafael Limon
Rafael Limón is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight /Jr. Lightweight division twice.He is better known as Bazooka Limón. Limón shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gómez and...

 by scoring a seventh round TKO. Later that year, he unified the WBA and WBC belts by a technical decision win over champion José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez is a retired Mexican boxer. He was a two-time World Lightweight Champion.-Career:A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March 25, 1973 at the age of 15. He climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings...

. An accidental head-butt opened a cut on Ramírez's forehead and the doctor halted the fight, sending the decision to the judges' scorecards at that point in the fight. Chávez, ahead on all scorecards, was declared the winner. He was also awarded the Ring lightweight title after the victory.
Chavez vacated his WBA and WBC lightweight titles in order to move up to the super lightweight division.

Stepping up to Super Lightweight

In his next bout, he won the WBC super lightweight title by defeating Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

 for a second time. Mayweather did not come out of his corner after the tenth round, giving Chavez the TKO win. In 1989, Chávez defeated future champion Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes is a retired Puerto Rican boxer. On February 20, 1995, he defeated Fidel Avendano to win the WBO Light Welterweight title. Fuentes defended the title once against Hector Lopez before losing it to Giovanni Parisi. He retired with a record of 34 wins , 18 loses, and 2 draws.-External...

 by tenth round TKO. In his next bout, he handed Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes (44-0) his first career loss by scoring a third round knockout.

Chávez vs Taylor

On March 17, 1990, he faced Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes.-Amateur career:...

, the undefeated IBF Junior Welterweight champion, in a title unification fight. While Taylor won the early rounds, Chávez rallied in the later rounds, scoring a knockdown with seconds remaining in the fight. Although Taylor rose at the referee's count of six, he did not respond coherently to referee Richard Steele's questions, continued to hold the ropes all along, and Steele stopped the fight with only two seconds remaining. Many boxing fans and members of the media were outraged that Steele would stop a match that Taylor was winning with only two seconds left, while others felt that Steele was justified in stopping the fight given Taylor's condition and the fact that he was unable to respond to Steele before the conclusion of the match. Steele defended his decision by saying that his concern is protecting a fighter, regardless of how much time is left in the round or the fight. As Steele put it, "I stopped it because Meldrick had took a lot of good shots, a lot of hard shots, and it was time for it to stop. You know, I'm not the timekeeper, and I don't care about the time. When I see a man that has had enough, I'm stopping the fight." The Ring
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The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication...

 named it the "Fight of the Year
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" for 1990, and later the "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s. While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out a faded Taylor in eight rounds.

After unifying the titles, Chávez engaged in a busy series of title defenses and non-title fights. On December 8, 1990, he defeated the WBC mandatory challenger Kyung-Duk Ahn (29-1) by third round knockout. On March 18, 1991, he defeated WBC number four ranked fighter John Duplessis (34-1) by fourth round TKO. On September 14, 1991, Chávez won a twelve round unanimous decision over former champion Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith
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. April 10, 1992, he scored a TKO victory over number one ranked contender Angel Hernandez (37-0-2, 22 KOs) in the fifth round. Later that year, he defeated Frankie Mitchell (29-1) by fourth round TKO.

Chávez vs Camacho

On September 12, 1992, Chávez faced WBO light welterweight champion Hector "Macho" Camacho
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

 (41-1-0, 18 KOs) in a highly anticipated bout. Chavez dominated Camacho en route to a unanimous decision win. The final scores were 117-111, 119-110 and 120-107 for Chávez. After the fight, on his arrival to Mexico, the President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sent the special car for the Pope
Pope
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 to take him from the airport to the President's house. Chavez was already known as a folk hero in Mexico.

Chávez vs. Haugen

His 1993 fight with Greg Haugen
Greg Haugen
Greg Lee Haugen is a retired American boxer. Haugen was champion at both the Lightweight and Light-welterweight classes.Haugen turned pro in 1982 and won his first 17 fights before challenging for a world title...

 featured trash talk from Haugen, who derided Chavez's 82-fight unbeaten streak as consisting mostly of "Tijuana taxi drivers that my mother could have knocked out" and insisting that "There aren't 130,000 Mexicans who can afford tickets" to see the fight in Estadio Azteca
Estadio Azteca
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. Chavez responded by saying, "I really hate him bad. When he looks at me, I want to vomit. I am going to give him the worst beating of his life; I am going to make him swallow the words that came out of his dirty mouth." Haugen was proven wrong on both counts: 132,274 showed up to set a record for fight attendance, and they watched Chávez drop Haugen quickly and then back off with the apparent intention of punishing him for his prefight remarks. However, the referee had seen enough by the fifth round and stopped it for a TKO victory for Chávez. After the fight, Chávez commented to Haugen; "Now you know I don't fight with taxi drivers", and a bloodied Haugen sportingly responded, "They must have been tough taxi drivers.". Later that year, Chávez scored a sixth-round TKO victory over number one ranked contender Terrence Alli.

Draw with Whitaker and first career loss

After a division record twenty consecutive defenses of his light welterweight title, Chávez (87-0) moved up one more weight division to challenge Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

 (32-1) for his WBC welterweight title in September 1993. The result of the fight was a controversial majority draw, allowing Chávez to remain undefeated. Various members of the American media, including The Ring magazine and Sports Illustrated
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 were critical of the decision, and Sports Illustrated put Pernell Whitaker on the cover of its next magazine with a one word title, "Robbed!". Chávez stated after the fight: "I felt I was forcing the fight ... he just kept holding me too much, he was throwing too many low blows too." There was no rematch.

Chavez continued defending his light welterweight title and on December 18, 1993, he defeated British Commonwealth light welterweight champion Andy Holligan (21-0-0) by fifth round TKO. Chávez faced Frankie Randall
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 in January 1994, in a fight that most expected him to win easily. Instead, Randall knocked him down for the first time in his career and went on to win a split decision, and Chávez lost the title to Randall. Chávez blamed his loss on referee Richard Steele, who deducted two points from Chávez for low blows, which effected the difference on the scorecards. The WBC ordered an immediate rematch and Chávez regained the title on a split technical decision in May, 1994. The fight was fiercely contested when they collided heads, opening a large cut over Chávez's eyebrow in the seventh round. After the head cut, during round eight, the referee called for the doctor who then instructed for the fight to be stopped. Under WBC rules, Randall was deducted one point, and that gave Chávez the technical victory on the score cards. The two would face one another in a rubber match
Rubber match
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 ten years later in which Julio César Chávez would win.

Chavez then faced Meldrick Taylor in a rematch, four years after their historic first fight. Chavez defeated him in the 8th round knockout that sent Taylor from one side of the ring to the other. In his next bout, Chavez defeated three-time champion Tony Lopez
Tony Lopez
Tony "The Tiger" Lopez , is a former professional boxer from Sacramento, California. He was a 3-Time World Boxing Champion. He is remembered for his victory in the 1988 The Ring Fight of the year by decision over Rocky Lockridge. He fought against Julio César Chávez in 1994 in Monterrey. He lost...

. In 1995, he defeated former and future super lightweight champion Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.- Biography:...

. Later that year, he defended his title against number one ranked challenger David Kamau
David Kamau
David Nganga Kamau is a Kenyan professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and has only had four losses.-WBC Light Welterweight Championship:...

, despite suffering a cut in the opening round. Prior to the bout, Chavez indicated that he was considering retirement, "I've had a lot of problems with my arms, with my knees. I really don't want to extend myself much longer," Chavez said. "After so many years of working out, it all builds up. I am not giving what I used to be able to give. I will fight De La Hoya for a lot of money, and then retire."

Chávez vs. De La Hoya

On June 7, 1996, Chávez faced Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

. A large gash appeared over the right eye of Chávez within the first minute of the first round, leading many to assume what Chávez later confirmed—that the cut occurred earlier in training and was re-opened in the bout. Heavy blood flow prompted the referee to stop the fight in the fourth round. Until their eventual rematch in 1998, Chavez would always state that De La Hoya had not defeated him, but that a gash that he had suffered in training was the real cause of the stoppage of the fight. In his next bout, Chavez defeated former champion Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

 in his 100th career bout.

A year after De La Hoya moved up to welterweight in 1997, Chávez fought Miguel Ángel González for the vacant WBC super lightweight title. That fight ended in a draw. In a rematch with De La Hoya for the WBC welterweight belt in September 1998, De La Hoya won by 8th round TKO. About De La Hoya, Chávez recently stated: "I have nothing against him, even though he beat me twice. I have no resentment towards him...De la Hoya was younger than me during our fight, and I was on my way out of boxing. If Oscar didn’t fight me, he would not have been anything in boxing". Chavez spoke about his sparring session with De La Hoya six years before their first fight and stated: "I sparred with him and dropped him in the second round with a right hand. De la Hoya was a kid...that day after training he stayed and we went out to dinner, I gave him some $300-$400 from my pocket to help him out."

Retirement and farewell fights

Chavez won his first two bouts in 1999 before losing to unheralded Willy Wise via 10 round unanimous decision. In 2000, at the age of 38, Chávez challenged light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu. Chavez lost the bout via 6th round TKO. After a 2001 victory over Terry Thomas in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...

, Mexico, Chávez retired. However, on November 24, 2003, he came out of retirement to avenge his earlier loss to Willy Wise, knocking Wise out in two rounds in Tijuana, Mexico. In April 2004, Chávez went back into the ring, for what he again claimed would be his last appearance. In that fight, nicknamed Adiós, México, Gracias (Good-bye, Mexico, Thank you), he beat his former conqueror, Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
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, by a ten round decision. On May 28, 2005, Chávez once again stepped into a boxing ring, outpointing Ivan Robinson in ten rounds at the Staples Center
Staples Center
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.
On September 17, 2005, at the U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
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, Chávez suffered a TKO loss to little-known Grover Wiley in the 115th bout of his career, retiring in his corner before the start of the 5th round, after injuring his right hand. After the bout, Chávez told his promoter, Bob Arum
Bob Arum
Robert "Bob" Arum is the founder and CEO of Top Rank, a professional boxing promotion company based in Las Vegas. He also worked for the US Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York in the tax division....

, that this time he was definitely retiring from boxing.

Nowadays, Chávez lives in Mexico and works for the network TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...

 as a boxing narrator. He owns businesses, gas stations, and properties in Mexico and the United States. He has three sons, Cristian Chavez, Julio Jr.
Julio César Chávez, Jr.
Julio César Chávez Carrasco , is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Middleweight Champion. His younger brother Omar Chávez is also an undefeated prospect who fights at Welterweight....

 and Omar
Omar Chávez
Omar Alonzo Chávez Carrasco is an undefeated Mexican boxer and the current WBC Youth Intercontinental Welterweight Champion. He's the son of legendary boxing champion Julio César Chávez and brother of current WBC Middleweight Champion, Julio César Chávez, Jr.-Personal life:Omar was born in the...

, Last two both professional boxers and undefeated to this day .

Career in review

Considered one of the greatest fighters in history, Chávez won six world titles in three weight divisions: WBC
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established 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...

 Super Featherweight
Super Featherweight
Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

 (1984), WBA
World Boxing Association
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 Lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 (1987), WBC Lightweight (1988), WBC Super Lightweight (1989), IBF
International Boxing Federation
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 Light Welterweight
Light welterweight
-Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...

 (1990), and WBC Super Lightweight (1994). He was also awarded the Ring Lightweight title in 1988. World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez is a retired Mexican boxer. He was a two-time World Lightweight Champion.-Career:A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March 25, 1973 at the age of 15. He climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings...

, Rafael Limón
Rafael Limon
Rafael Limón is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight /Jr. Lightweight division twice.He is better known as Bazooka Limón. Limón shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gómez and...

, Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge , is a former boxer and world champion. As a professional, he is perhaps best known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat, in a first-round knockout for the WBA super featherweight championship.-Amateur career:...

, Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes.-Amateur career:...

, Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

, Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He made his debut for the Philadelphia Phillies on September 2, 1978 and later played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Baltimore Orioles...

, Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes is a retired Puerto Rican boxer. On February 20, 1995, he defeated Fidel Avendano to win the WBO Light Welterweight title. Fuentes defended the title once against Hector Lopez before losing it to Giovanni Parisi. He retired with a record of 34 wins , 18 loses, and 2 draws.-External...

, Héctor "Macho" Camacho
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

, Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte is a former boxer who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.-Amateur career:Juan Laporte won the 1976 112 lb New York Golden Gloves Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch...

, Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...

, Greg Haugen
Greg Haugen
Greg Lee Haugen is a retired American boxer. Haugen was champion at both the Lightweight and Light-welterweight classes.Haugen turned pro in 1982 and won his first 17 fights before challenging for a world title...

, Tony López
Tony Lopez
Tony "The Tiger" Lopez , is a former professional boxer from Sacramento, California. He was a 3-Time World Boxing Champion. He is remembered for his victory in the 1988 The Ring Fight of the year by decision over Rocky Lockridge. He fought against Julio César Chávez in 1994 in Monterrey. He lost...

, Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.- Biography:...

, Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

, and Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...

, who had taken the WBC light welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier. He lost to only three champions: Randall, Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

 and Kostya Tszyu, plus to Willy Wise and Grover Wiley. He was held to a draw by two others: Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

 and Miguel Ángel González.

Chávez finally retired in his twenty-fifth year as a professional boxer with a record of 107 wins, 6 losses and 2 draws, with 89 knockouts, and a reputation as one of the best boxers of all time. He holds records for most successful consecutive defenses of world titles (27), most title fights (37), most title-fight victories (31), and he is tied with Joe Louis
Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...

 for most title defenses won by knockout (21). Chávez also has the longest undefeated streak in boxing history, 13 years. His record was 89-0-1 going into his first loss to Frankie Randall and had an 87 fight win streak until his draw with Whitaker. He was ranked #50 on Ring Magazine's list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". As an in-fighter or swarmer, Julio César Chávez was renowned specially for his devastating left hook and his ability to take a punch due his extremly strong chin. In 2002, The Ring
The Ring (magazine)
The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication...

 ranked Chávez as the 18th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. On December 7, 2010, his induction to the International Boxing Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame
The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta...

 was announced.

Professional boxing record

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|align="center" colspan=7|107 Wins (86 knockouts, 21 decisions), 6 Losses (4 knockouts, 2 decision), 2 Draws http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=8119&cat=boxer
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|-align=center
|Loss ||align=left| United States Grover Wiley
Grover Wiley
James Grover Wiley is a professional boxer in the Middleweight division.-Professional career:On June 9, 2007 Wiley was knocked out by Julio César Chávez, Jr. at the Madison Square Garden in New York, New York....


| || 4 || 2005-09-17
|align=left|  America West Arena, Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...


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|Win ||align=left| United States Ivan Robinson
Ivan Robinson
Ivan "Mighty" Robinson is a boxer who has compiled a record of 36-12-2 since becoming a professional in 1992. He attended Simon Gratz High School.- Professional career :...


| || 6 || 2005-05-28
|align=left|  Staples Center, Los Angeles
Staples Center
Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on October 17, 1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...


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|Win ||align=left| United States Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...

 
| || 10 || 2004-05-22
|align=left|  Plaza de Toros, Mexico City
Plaza México
The Plaza México, situated in Mexico City, is the world's largest bullring. This 48,000-seat facility is usually dedicated to bullfighting, but many boxing fights have been held there as well, including Julio César Chávez's third bout with Frankie Randall...

, Distrito Federal
Distrito Federal
Distrito Federal may refer to:*Mexican Federal District*Brazilian Federal District-See also:*Distrito Capital: Bogotá Capital District*Distrito Capital: Venezuelan Capital District...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Willy Wise
| || 2 || 2003-11-22
|align=left|  Centro de Espectaculos Alamar, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Terry Thomas
| || 2 || 2001-11-24
|align=left|  Plaza De Toros Monumental, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Loss ||align=left| Russia Kostya Tszyu
| || 6 || 2000-07-29
|align=left|  Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...


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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Buck Smith
Buck Smith
Buck Smith is a professional boxer in the cruiserweight division. Although Smith has never been considered more than a journeyman fighter, he is one of boxing's all-time knockout kings with 120 KO's....


| || 3 || 1999-12-18
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Loss ||align=left| United States Willy Wise
| || 10 || 1999-10-02
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Marty Jakubowski
||| 4 || 1999-07-10
|align=left|  Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Verdell Smith
Verdell Smith
Verdell Smith, a.k.a. Tommy Bowles, a.k.a. Tim Brooks was a professional boxer in the light welterweight division...

 
| || 4 || 1999-04-01
|align=left|  Don Haskins Convention Center, El Paso, Texas
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Loss ||align=left| United States Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

 
| || 8 || 1998-09-18
|align=left|  Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas
Thomas & Mack Center
The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena, located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For ring events, the capacity is 19,522, for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.-History:...

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Ken Sigurani
| || 3 || 1998-06-25
|align=left|  Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, United States. Together with the MGM Grand at Foxwoods, it is one of the largest casino complexes in the world in terms of floor space for gaming. The entire resort comprises of space. The casino has over 380 gaming tables...

, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...


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|- align=center
|style="background:#abcdef;"|Draw ||align=left| Mexico Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Miguel Ángel González , is a Mexican professional boxer best known to be world lightweight champion as a professional. He also campaigned as a junior welterweight, as well as welterweight in his career, and is currently rated as a junior middleweight but was never as respected as in his best...

 
| || 12 || 1998-03-07
|align=left|  Plaza de Toros, Mexico City
Plaza México
The Plaza México, situated in Mexico City, is the world's largest bullring. This 48,000-seat facility is usually dedicated to bullfighting, but many boxing fights have been held there as well, including Julio César Chávez's third bout with Frankie Randall...

, Distrito Federal
Distrito Federal
Distrito Federal may refer to:*Mexican Federal District*Brazilian Federal District-See also:*Distrito Capital: Bogotá Capital District*Distrito Capital: Venezuelan Capital District...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Larry LaCoursiere
| || 10 || 1997-06-28
|align=left|  MGM Grand, Las Vegas
MGM Grand Las Vegas
The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the third largest hotel in the world and largest hotel resort complex in the United States in front of The Venetian. The MGM Grand was the largest hotel in the world when it opened in...

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...


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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Tony Martin
| || 10 || 1997-03-29
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache
Joey Gamache, , was a professional boxer. Gamache is the former WBA Super Featherweight, and WBA Lightweight Champion.At the age of 10, playing third base in Little League, he tended to loop his throws to first...

 
| || 8 || 1996-10-12
|align=left|  Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Loss ||align=left| United States Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

 
| || 4 || 1996-06-07
|align=left|  Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated township in Clark County, Nevada, United States in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corp....

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Scott Walker
Scott Walker (boxer)
Perry Scott Walker was a professional boxer.Walker's nickname was "The Pink Cat", and he gained some attention in the 1990s boxing scene for wearing pink boxing trunks and slicked-back hair, the latter a tribute to his idol, James Dean...

 
| || 2 || 1996-02-09
|align=left|  Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated township in Clark County, Nevada, United States in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corp....

, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...


|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Kenya David Kamau
David Kamau
David Nganga Kamau is a Kenyan professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and has only had four losses.-WBC Light Welterweight Championship:...


| || 12 || 1995-09-16
|align=left|  Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Craig Houk
| || 1 || 1995-07-29
|align=left|  Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Italy Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi
Giovanni Parisi was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.- Biography:...


| || 12 || 1995-04-08
|align=left|  Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Tony Lopez
| || 10 || 1994-12-10
|align=left|  Estadio de Beisbol, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes.-Amateur career:...


| || 8 || 1994-09-17
|align=left|  MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...


| || 8 || 1994-05-07
|align=left|  MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Loss ||align=left| United States Frankie Randall
Frankie Randall
-External links:...


| || 12 || 1994-01-29
|align=left|  MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|

|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United Kingdom Andy Holligan
| || 5 || 1993-12-18
|align=left|  Estadio Cuauhtemoc, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Mike Powell
| || 4 || 1993-10-30
|align=left|  Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|style="background:#abcdef;"|Draw ||align=left| United States Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...

 
| || 12 || 1993-09-10
|align=left|  Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Guyana Terrence Alli
| || 6 || 1993-05-08
|align=left|  Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Argentina Silvio Walter Rojas
| || 3 || 1993-04-10
|align=left|  Auditorio Benito Juarez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Greg Haugen
Greg Haugen
Greg Lee Haugen is a retired American boxer. Haugen was champion at both the Lightweight and Light-welterweight classes.Haugen turned pro in 1982 and won his first 17 fights before challenging for a world title...

 
| || 5 || 1993-02-20
|align=left|  Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Marty Jakubowski
||| 6 || 1992-12-13
|align=left|  Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Bruce Pearson
||| 3 || 1992-10-31
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Hector Camacho
Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...


| || 12 || 1992-09-12
|align=left|  Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Frankie Mitchell
| || 4 || 1992-08-01
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Angel Hernandez
| || 5 || 1992-04-10
|align=left|  El Toreo, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Juan Soberanes
Juan Soberanes Ramos
Juan Soberanes Ramos is a Mexican professional boxer in the Welterweight division. He's also the former Mexican National Lightweight and the WBA Fedecentro Light Welterweight Champion.-Pro career:...


| || 4 || 1992-03-13
|align=left|  La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ignacio Perdomo
| || 7 || 1991-12-13
|align=left|  Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Argentina Jorge Alberto Melian
| || 4 || 1991-11-12
|align=left|  Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith (boxer)
Harlan Alonso Smith, known as Lonnie Smith , is an American boxer at Welterweight.- Professional career :...


| || 12 || 1991-09-14
|align=left|  Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Tommy Small
| || 4 || 1991-04-26
|align=left|  Estadio General Angel Flores, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States John Duplessis
| || 4 || 1991-03-18
|align=left|  Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| South Korea Kyung-Duk Ahn
| || 3 || 1990-12-08
|align=left|  Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jaime Balboa
| || 4 || 1990-11-08
|align=left|  Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Russell Mosley
| || 3 || 1990-08-18
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Ghana Akwei Addo
| || 2 || 1990-07-05
|align=left|  Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor is a former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion in two weight classes.-Amateur career:...


| || 12 || 1990-03-17
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|

|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Argentina Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes
| || 3 || 1989-12-16
|align=left|  Palacio de Deporte, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes
Sammy Fuentes is a retired Puerto Rican boxer. On February 20, 1995, he defeated Fidel Avendano to win the WBO Light Welterweight title. Fuentes defended the title once against Hector Lopez before losing it to Giovanni Parisi. He retired with a record of 34 wins , 18 loses, and 2 draws.-External...


| || 10 || 1989-11-18
|align=left|  Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ramon Aramburu
| || 3 || 1989-10-27
|align=left|  Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Rodolfo Batta
| || 1 || 1989-10-09
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Kenny Vice
| || 3 || 1989-07-30
|align=left|  Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...

 
| || 11 || 1989-05-13
|align=left|  Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jose Luis Ramirez
José Luis Ramírez
José Luis Ramírez is a retired Mexican boxer. He was a two-time World Lightweight Champion.-Career:A native of Huatabampo, Sonora and a resident of Culiacán, Ramírez made his professional debut on March 25, 1973 at the age of 15. He climbed slowly but steadily on boxing's rankings...

 
| || 11 || 1988-10-29
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Vernon Buchanan 
||| 3 || 1988-08-01
|align=left|  Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Rafael Limon
Rafael Limon
Rafael Limón is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight /Jr. Lightweight division twice.He is better known as Bazooka Limón. Limón shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gómez and...


||| 7 || 1988-06-04
|align=left|  Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Panama Rodolfo Aguilar
| || 6 || 1988-04-16
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Nicky Perez
||| 3 || 1988-03-05
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Edwin Rosario
Edwin Rosario
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario was a Puerto Rican boxer. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90...


||| 11 || 1987-11-21
|align=left|  Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Dominican Republic Danilo Cabrera
| || 12|| 1987-08-21
|align=left|  Caliente Racetrack, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Brazil Francisco Tomas Da Cruz
| || 3 || 1987-04-18
|align=left|  Nîmes, Gard, France
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte
Juan Laporte is a former boxer who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.-Amateur career:Juan Laporte won the 1976 112 lb New York Golden Gloves Sub-Novice Championship. He defeated Long Island's Ricky Brown in the finals. Laporte was defeated by Joseph Nieto of the Police Athletic Leagues Lynch...


| || 12 || 1986-12-12
|align=left|  Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge , is a former boxer and world champion. As a professional, he is perhaps best known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat, in a first-round knockout for the WBA super featherweight championship.-Amateur career:...


| || 12 || 1986-08-03
|align=left|  Stade Louis II, Monte Carlo, Monaco
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Refugio Rojas
| || 7 || 1986-06-13
|align=left|  Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Argentina Faustino Martires Barrios
||| 5 || 1986-05-15
|align=left|  Stade Pierre De Coubertin, Bercy, France
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Costa Rica Roberto Collins Lindo
| || 2 || 1986-03-22
|align=left|  Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Jeff Bumpus
| || 5 || 1985-12-19
|align=left|  Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Dwight Pratchett
| || 12 || 1985-09-21
|align=left|  Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather
Roger Mayweather is a retired professional boxer. He won two major world titles in two different weight classes. Throughout his career, Mayweather fought against many other boxing champions of the 1980s and 1990s. He is a part of the Mayweather boxing family; his brothers are former welterweight...


| || 2 || 1985-07-07
|align=left|  Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Ruben Castillo
| || 6 || 1985-04-19
|align=left|  Forum, Inglewood, California, United States
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|Win ||align=left| United States Manuel Hernandez
||| 3 || 1985-01-01
|align=left|  Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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|Win ||align=left| Mexico Mario Martinez
Mario Martinez (boxer)
Mario Martínez is a former Mexican boxer best known for losing to fellow Mexican Julio César Chávez for a vacant world title. in 1984, it is said that such bout catapulted Chavez's career.-Career:Martinez turned pro in 1980...


||| 8 || 1984-09-13
|align=left|  Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Delfino Mendoza
| || 3 || 1984-06-13
|align=left|  Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ramon Avitia
| || 6 || 1984-05-04
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Armando Flores
| || 3 || 1983-09-01
|align=left|  Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Adriano Arreola
| || 10 || 1983-07-16
|align=left|  Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Benny Abarca
| || 5 || 1983-12-30
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Romero Sandoval
| || 2 || 1983-06-15
|align=left|  Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Puerto Rico Javier Fragoso
| || 4 || 1983-05-01
|align=left|  Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ernesto Herrera
| || 4 || 1983-04-04
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Othoniel Lopez
| || 4 || 1983-02-25
|align=left|  Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Jerry Lewis
| || 6 || 1982-12-11
|align=left|  Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, United States
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Jerry Lewis
| || 5 || 1982-10-23
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Jose Resendez
| || 6 || 1982-09-28
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Santos Rodriguez
||| 8 || 1982-08-20
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Gustavo Salgado
| || 2 || 1982-07-19
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Juan Carlos Alvarado
||| 3 || 1982-05-08
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Benny Abarca
||| 10|| 1982-04-26
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Johnny Jensen
| || 3 || 1982-03-11
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Carlos Bryant
||| 2 || 1982-02-19
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ramon Peraza
| || 1 || 1982-02-04
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jesús García
||| 2 || 1982-01-29
|align=left|  Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ramon Luque
||| 1 || 1982-01-12
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Manuel Vasquez
||| 7 || 1981-12-17
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Jose Angel Medina
||| 6 || 1981-10-19
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jorge Ramirez
| || 2 || 1981-09-25
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Daniel Felizardo
| || 3 || 1981-08-31
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jesus Cuate Lara
| || 2 || 1981-08-07
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Daniel Martinez
| || 1 || 1981-07-27
|align=left|  Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Bobby Fernandez
| || 3 || 1981-07-10
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Fidel Navarro
| || 1 || 1981-06-26
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Victor Gamez
| || 1 || 1981-06-05
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Eduardo Lalo Acosta
| || 2 || 1981-05-08
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Miguel Ruiz
| || 1 || 1981-03-04
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Julio Gaxiola
| || 4 || 1981-02-02
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Roberto Flores
| || 3 || 1980-12-15
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Andres Felix
| || 2 || 1980-11-26
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jesus Martinez
| || 1 || 1980-10-13
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Jesus Cuate Lara
||| 10 || 1980-09-22
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Miguel Cebrero
| || 10 || 1980-09-05
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Tito Geraldo
||| 6 || 1980-07-18
|align=left|  Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| United States Roberto Garcia
| || 6 || 1980-05-20
|align=left|  Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
|align=left|
|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Ramon Flores
| || 3 || 1980-04-08
|align=left|  Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico
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|- align=center
|Win ||align=left| Mexico Fidencio Cebreros
| || 6 || 1980-03-03
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
|align=left|
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|Win ||align=left| Mexico Andres Felix
| || 6 || 1980-02-05
|align=left|  Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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