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Roberto Durán (born June 16, 1951) is a retired professional boxer
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 from Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone".

In 2002, he was chosen by The Ring Magazine to be the 5th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. He held world titles at four different weights - lightweight
Lightweight

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 (1972-79), welterweight
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 (1980), junior middleweight (1983-84) and middleweight
Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
 (1989).






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Roberto Durán (born June 16, 1951) is a retired professional boxer
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....
 from Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone".

In 2002, he was chosen by The Ring Magazine to be the 5th greatest fighter of the last 80 years. He held world titles at four different weights - lightweight
Lightweight

The word lightweight usually refers to a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for liquor....
 (1972-79), welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 (1980), junior middleweight (1983-84) and middleweight
Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
 (1989). He was the second boxer to have fought in five different decades. Saoul Mamby
Saoul Mamby

Saoul Paul Mamby was a professional Boxing between 1969 and 2000....
 was the first boxer in history to compete in five decades. Two weeks later, Duran accomplished the same feat, becoming the second fighter to do so.

He finally retired in January 2002 at age 50 (having previously retired in 1998) following a bad car crash in October 2001, with a professional record of 119 fights, 103 wins with 70 KOs. Up until the second Ray Leonard fight, he was trained by legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel
Ray Arcel

Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions.Arcel was born in Terre Haute, Indiana....
.



History


Born in the El Chorrillo district of Panama City, Panamá
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
 to a Panamanian Mother and a Mexican father, he had his first professional fight in 1967. After an initial adjustment he won thirty in a row, culminating in his first title bout in June 1972, where he controversially defeated Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan is a former world boxing champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.Boxing career ...
 at New York
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's Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

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 for 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....
 world lightweight championship. Duran knocked down Buchanan in the first round and dominated him throughout the fight, until Duran floored him with an unpunished low-blow with the final punch of the match. Duran followed up on his title winning performance with several non-title matches. Later that year, in another non-title bout, he lost a ten round decision to Esteban De Jesus
Esteban De Jesús

Esteban De Jesus was a Puerto Rico world lightweight champion boxing whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benitez....
. Duran got back on track with successful title defenses against Jimmy Robertson
Jimmy Robertson

Jimmy Robertson is a Scotland former football er.Robertson started his career at St. Mirren F.C. and was bought by Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in 1964 for ?25,000....
, Hector Thompson, and former lightweight champion Guts Ishimatsu
Guts Ishimatsu

is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi, Japan. After retiring from boxing, he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian.As a boxer, he was known for his unpredictable style, sometimes marking completely unpredicted victories, and often losing in extravagant fashion as well....
. In 1974, Durán would avenge his loss to De Jesus with a brutal eleventh round knock out. Overall Durán made twelve successful defenses of his title (eleven coming by knock out), his last defense coming in 1978 where Durán fought a third fight with De Jesus, a unification match where Durán once again knocked out De Jesus and captured his WBC lightweight belt. Durán would give up the unified lightweight title in February 1979. He is also reported to have, according to EA Sports
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 Fight Night Round 3 in-game commentary, as well as in internet forums, knocked out a horse with a single punch.

Vacating the lightweight title was a build up for an attempt at the welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 title. Duran earned a pair of wins against former WBC welterweight champion Carlos Palomino
Carlos Palomino

Carlos Palomino is a Mexico former Boxing who was a world champion.Palomino is also an Acting who has been featured in a few movies. He achieved a considerable amount of fame during the 1970s, especially among Mexican and South California fans....
 and Zeferino Gonzales, setting the stage for a title bout against then undefeated WBC Welterweight Champion
List of welterweight boxing champions

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 Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
. The venue chosen would be the Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)

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 in Montreal
Montreal

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, the same location where Leonard won an Olympic
Olympic Games

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 gold medal during the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics

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. Duran resented the fact that he was getting only one-fifth the money Leonard would make despite the fact that he was entering the bout with a 73-1 record. He would curse and insult Leonard during press conferences in an attempt to intimidate the young champion. On June 20, 1980, Duran captured the WBC welterweight title by defeating Leonard via a 15-round unanimous decision. The fight would become known as "The Brawl in Montreal". In the November re-match, however, Durán shockingly quit. Leonard has said that his strategy was to use speed and agility to taunt and frustrate Durán, believing it was his best chance of winning the fight. In round 8, Durán turned around, walked to his corner and gave up, supposedly saying the now famous words, "no más" (no more). However, he claims to have actually said, "No quiero pelear con el payaso." (Meaning "I do not want to fight with this clown.") Another version of events has him saying, in Spanish, "I can't continue". Referee Octavio Meyran
Octavio Meyran

Octavio Meyran Sanchez is a former Mexico boxing Referee .During his career Meyran took charge of over twenty world title fights. Among the bouts he refereed were the infamous Leonard-Duran II fight between Roberto Dur?n and Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980, Wilfredo Gomez's WBC Featherweight title-winning effort against Juan Laporte, Gomez's loss...
, perhaps as incredulous as was the rest of the world at what he was seeing, asked Durán if he was sure, and Durán then said, "No más, no más" (no more, no more). In violation of what any professional fighter does on the day of a fight, Durán gorged himself after the weigh-in, claimed he quit because he was having stomach cramps. The controversy regarding this bout continues to this day.

He took some time to recover from that fight, gaining even more weight to contend for the WBC world junior middleweight title, but losing in his first attempt at a championship in that division on the January 30 of 1982, against Wilfredo Benitez by a 15 round unanimous decision. Duran was also to lose his come back fight in December 1982 in Detroit. Kirkland Laing
Kirkland Laing

Kirkland Laing is a retired United Kingdom Welterweight Boxing nicknamed The Gifted One.Laing fought 56 times in a twenty year career, the highlight of which was a shock split decision win over Roberto Duran in September 1982....
, from London, shocked the boxing world, producing the type of display his talents promised yet he so rarely produced, taking the split decision. After being relegated to a 10 round walk out win over Englishman Jimmy Batten at The Battle of The Champions
The Battle of the Champions

The Battle of the Champions, was a term used by promoter Bob Arum regarding the November 12 1982 boxing match between Aaron Pryor and Alexis Arguello....
 in Miami, Durán signed with promoter Bob Arum
Bob Arum

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. This marked the beginning of a comeback in which he beat former world champion and now hall of famer Pipino Cuevas via a fourth round knock-out, which earned him a second crack at the junior middleweight title, this time against WBA champion Davey Moore
Davey Moore (1980s)

Davey Moore was an American world boxing championship boxing, the second of two boxers who shared the name in the late 20th century, and whose respective careers each ended with death by physical trauma around the age of thirty....
.

The WBA title bout took place at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

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 on June 16, 1983, which also happened to be Duran's 32nd birthday. The result turned out to be a one sided affair as Duran dominated Moore throughout the bout. The pro-Duran crowd at ringside cheered as Duran relentlessly punished Moore. By the end of the sixth round, Moore's eye had swollen shut and he was floored near the end of the seventh. Finally the fight was stopped in the eighth round as Moore was taking such a horrific beating and Duran won his third world title. After the victory, Duran was hoisted up in the air as the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to a sobbing Duran.

Durán later fought for the World middleweight
Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
 title, meeting Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
 in Las Vegas in November 1983, but losing in a competitive fight that went the full fifteen rounds. Despite the loss, Duran was the first fighter to go the full distance with the great middleweight champion in one of his defenses. In June 1984, Duran was stripped of his junior middleweight title when the WBA did not approve of his fight with WBC world champion Thomas "Hitman" Hearns
Thomas Hearns

Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
, and took away recognition of Duran as world champion the moment Duran stepped into the ring to box Hearns. Durán lost the fight after a vicious second round knock-out by Hearns.

Durán did not contend another title fight until 1989, but made the shot count when he won the WBC middleweight title from Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley

Iran Barkley is an United States former boxing....
 in February, a fight in which Duran used Don Longanecker as a training partner.The fight is considered one of Duran's greatest achievements, as the 38 year old former lightweight champion took the middleweight crown, his fourth title. In a tough, back and forth fight, Durán knocked Barkley down in the eleventh round and won a close decision. The bout was named the 1989 "Fight of the Year" by Ring Magazine. His reign was short lived once again as Duran moved up to super middleweight for a third clash with Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
 in December (a fight dubbed Uno Más--One More--by promoters), but lost in a decision. Duran seemed to be in decline after the fight, he attempted to win further middleweight titles in 1994, 1995 and 1996 (fighting for the minor IBC belt). In 1998, at the age of 47, he challenged 28 year old WBA middleweight champion William Joppy. Joppy, a trim, quick-fisted fighter, battered Duran to defeat in just 3 rounds. It was Duran's most emphatic loss since the Hearns fight, over a decade earlier. Duran then announced his retirement in August 1998, but was back fighting in 1999. In June 2000 he won a minor super middleweight title from Pat Lawlor but quickly lost it to Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho

H?ctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho" , is a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. His son, H?ctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer....
.

After splitting fights with Jorge Castro
Jorge Castro (boxer)

Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , is an Argentina boxing and former Middleweight champion of the world, who is best known for his second defense of the title against John David Jackson in 1994....
 and losing a rematch to Camacho, Durán went to Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 to promote a Salsa music
Salsa music

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 CD that he had just released. While there, he was involved in a dramatic car crash and required life-saving surgery. After that, he announced his retirement from boxing.

Durán's five world title belts, which he won in four different divisions, were stolen from his house in Panama in 1993 during a robbery allegedly staged by his brother-in-law, who gave them to memorabilia seller Luis González Báez, who will stand trial for trying to sell stolen goods. González Báez allegedly sold the belts to undercover FBI agents. He alleges that Duran authorized the sale of the five belts to him during a time that Duran was facing financial trouble. On September 23, 2003, a federal judge in Florida
Florida

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 ordered the five belts returned to Duran.

His 70 wins by knockout place him in an exclusive group of boxers who have won 50 or more fights by knockout.

On October 14, 2006 Roberto was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame
World Boxing Hall of Fame

The World Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame, with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized institution....
 in Riverside, California, and on June 10, 2007 into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame

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 in Canastota, New York.

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Appearances in film

Durán's first appearance in a movie was in the 1979
1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
 sequel Rocky II
Rocky II

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 as a lightning fast sparring partner for Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa (character)

Robert "Rocky" Balboa, Sr. is a fictional boxer portrayed by Sylvester Stallone who has appeared in the Rocky from 1976 to 2006. By the end of the series, he is a two-time former Heavyweight Champion of the World....
. Outside of this, he has also received minor roles in Harlem Nights
Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights is a 1989 in film comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner , Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese and Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy....
 and Miami Vice
Miami Vice

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.

Roberto Duran's life and boxing career are collected in the documentary "Los puños de una nación" (The fists of a nation) by Panamanian film maker, Pituka Ortega-Heilbron.

Career record

|- |align="center" colspan=8|103 Wins (70 knockouts, 32 decisions, 1 retirement), 16 Losses (4 knockouts, 12 decisions) |- | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res. | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location | align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho

H?ctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho" , is a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. His son, H?ctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer....
 |Decision |12 |2001-07-14 |align=left|Denver, Colorado |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Patrick Goossen |Decision |10 |2000-08-12 |align=left|Toppenish, Washington
Toppenish, Washington

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 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Pat Lawlor |Decision |12 |2000-06-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Omar Gonzalez |Decision |10 |1999-03-06 |align=left|Buenos Aires, Argentina | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| William Joppy
William Joppy

William Torelle Joppy is an American middleweight Boxing. Born in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 11, 1970, he has held the World Boxing Association middleweight title on two occasions....
 |TKO |3 , |1998-08-28 |align=left|Las Vegas, Nevada | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Felix Jose Hernandez |Decision |10 |1998-01-31 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| David Radford |Decision |8 |1997-11-15 |align=left|Temba, South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jorge Fernando Castro
Jorge Castro (boxer)

Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , is an Argentina boxing and former Middleweight champion of the world, who is best known for his second defense of the title against John David Jackson in 1994....
 |Decision |10 |1997-06-14 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Jorge Fernando Castro
Jorge Castro (boxer)

Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , is an Argentina boxing and former Middleweight champion of the world, who is best known for his second defense of the title against John David Jackson in 1994....
 |Decision |10 |1997-02-15 |align=left|Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

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, Argentina
Argentina

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 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Mike Culbert |TKO |6 |1996-09-27 |align=left|Chester, West Virginia
Chester, West Virginia

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 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ariel Cruz |KO |1 |1996-08-31 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Héctor Camacho
Héctor Camacho

H?ctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho" , is a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. His son, H?ctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer....
 |Decision |12 |1996-06-22 |align=left|Atlantic City, New Jersey |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ray Domenge |Decision |10 |1996-02-20 |align=left|Miami, Florida | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Wilbur Garst |TKO |4 |1995-12-21 |align=left|Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Roni Martinez |TKO |7 , |1995-06-10 |align=left|Kansas City, Missouri | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Vinny Pazienza |Decision |12 |1995-01-14 |align=left|Atlantic City, New Jersey |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Heath Todd |TKO |7 |1994-10-18 |align=left|Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Vinny Pazienza |Decision |12 |1994-06-25 |align=left|Las Vegas, Nevada |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Terry Thomas |TKO |4 |1994-03-29 |align=left|Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Carlos Montero |Decision |10 |1994-02-22 |align=left|Marseille
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, France | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Tony Menefee |TKO |8 |1993-12-14 |align=left|Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Sean Fitzgerald |KO |6 |1993-08-17 |align=left|Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jacques LeBlanc |Decision |10 |1993-06-29 |align=left|Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ken Hulsey |KO |2 , |1992-12-17 |align=left|Cleveland, Ohio | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Tony Biglen |Decision |10 |1992-09-30 |align=left|Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York

Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
 | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Pat Lawlor |TKO |6 , |1991-03-18 |align=left|Las Vegas, Nevada | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
 |Decision |12 |1989-12-07 |align=left|Las Vegas, Nevada |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Iran Barkley
Iran Barkley

Iran Barkley is an United States former boxing....
 |Decision |12 |1989-02-24 |align=left|Atlantic City, New Jersey |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jeff Lanas |Decision |10 |1988-10-01 |align=left|Chicago, Illinois | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Paul Thorn
Paul Thorn

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 |Retirement |6 |1988-04-14 |align=left|Atlantic City, New Jersey | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ricky Stackhouse |Decision |10 |1988-02-05 |align=left|Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a City in Atlantic County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino, sandy beaches, shopping centers, spectacular view of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the inspiration for the board game Monopoly , Atlantic City is a resort community located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Juan Ferreyra
Juan Carlos Gimenez Ferreyra

Juan Carlos Gimenez Ferreyra is a Paraguayan boxer. He once fought Joe Calzaghe, losing via knockout.External links* from Boxrec.com...
 |Decision |10 |1987-09-12 |align=left|Miami, Florida | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Victor Claudio |Decision |10 |1987-05-16 |align=left|Miami, Florida | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Robbie Sims
Robbie Sims

Robbie Sims was a former middleweight boxing out of Brockton, Massachusetts. A southpaw born November 5th, 1959, he rose to prominence as a middleweight contender after defeating Roberto Duran in a split decision on 6/23/86....
 |Decision |10 |1986-06-23 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jorge Suero |KO |2 , |1986-04-18 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Manuel Zambrano |KO |2 , |1986-01-31 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Thomas Hearns
Thomas Hearns

Thomas "Hitman" Hearns , is an United States 8-time world champion professional boxing.Hearns became the first ever quadruple world champion in boxing history....
 |KO |2 |1984-06-15 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas |align=left| |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
 |Decision |15 |1983-11-10 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Davey Moore
Davey Moore (1980s)

Davey Moore was an American world boxing championship boxing, the second of two boxers who shared the name in the late 20th century, and whose respective careers each ended with death by physical trauma around the age of thirty....
 |TKO |8 , |1983-06-16 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Pipino Cuevas
Jose Cuevas

Jos? Isidro "Pipino" Cuevas Gonz?lez is a Mexico former world champion Boxing at the welterweight division.Cuavas turned professional at age fourteen, he won only seven of his first twelve bouts but eventually put together an eight bout winning streak before losing to Andy Price....
 |TKO |4 , |1983-01-29 |align=left|Los Angeles, California |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jimmy Batten |Decision |10 |1982-11-12 |align=left|Miami, Florida |align=left| |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Kirkland Laing
Kirkland Laing

Kirkland Laing is a retired United Kingdom Welterweight Boxing nicknamed The Gifted One.Laing fought 56 times in a twenty year career, the highlight of which was a shock split decision win over Roberto Duran in September 1982....
 |Decision |10 |1982-09-04 |align=left|Detroit, Michigan |align=left| |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Wilfred Benitez
Wilfred Benitez

Wilfred Ben?tez , is a Puerto Rican people boxing. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history....
 |Decision |15 |1982-01-30 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Luigi Minchillo |Decision |10 |1981-09-26 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Nino Gonzalez |Decision |10 |1981-08-09 |align=left|Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
 | |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
 |TKO |8 , |1980-11-25 |align=left|New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
 |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
 |Decision |15 |1980-06-20 |align=left|Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Wellington Wheatley |TKO |6 |1980-02-24 |align=left|Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Joseph Nsubuga |TKO |4 , |1980-01-13 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Zeferino Gonzalez |Decision |10 |1979-09-28 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Carlos Palomino
Carlos Palomino

Carlos Palomino is a Mexico former Boxing who was a world champion.Palomino is also an Acting who has been featured in a few movies. He achieved a considerable amount of fame during the 1970s, especially among Mexican and South California fans....
 |Decision |10 |1979-06-22 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jimmy Heair |Decision |10 |1979-04-08 |align=left|Caesars Palace, Las Vegas | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Monroe Brooks |KO |8 , |1978-12-08 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ezequiel Obando |KO |2 , |1978-09-01 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Adolfo Viruet |Decision |10 |1978-04-27 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesús

Esteban De Jesus was a Puerto Rico world lightweight champion boxing whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benitez....
 |TKO |12 , |1978-01-21 |align=left|Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace, is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an Unincorporated area township in Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, United States in the Las Vegas metropolitan area....
, Las Vegas
Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4 mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. A small portion of The Strip lies in Las Vegas, Nevada, but most of it is in the unincorporated area areas of Paradise, Nevada and Winchester, Nevada....
 |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Edwin Viruet |Decision |15 |1977-09-17 |align=left|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
 |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Bernardo Diaz |KO |1 , |1977-08-06 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Javier Muniz |Decision |10 |1977-05-16 |align=left|Landover, Maryland
Landover, Maryland

Landover is an unincorporated area in Prince George's County, Maryland, Maryland, United States, within the census-designated place of Greater Landover, Maryland....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Vilomar Fernandez |KO |13 , |1977-01-29 |align=left|Miami, Florida |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Alvaro Rojas |TKO |1 , |1976-10-15 |align=left|Hollywood, Florida
Hollywood, Florida

Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of 1 July 2007, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 142,473....
, United States |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Emiliano Villa |TKO |7 , |1976-07-31 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Lou Bizzarro |KO |14 , |1976-05-23 |align=left|Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie is an industrial city on the shore of Lake Erie in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Named for the lake and the Erie tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth largest city , with a population of 104,000....
 |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Saoul Mamby
Saoul Mamby

Saoul Paul Mamby was a professional Boxing between 1969 and 2000....
 |Decision |10 |1976-05-04 |align=left|Miami Beach, Florida | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Leoncio Ortiz |KO |15 , |1975-12-20 |align=left|Hato Rey, Puerto Rico |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Edwin Viruet |Decision |10 |1975-09-30 |align=left|Uniondale
Uniondale, New York

Uniondale is a political subdivisions of New York#Hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead, New York....
, New York | |-align=center |Win |align=left|Alirio Acuna |KO |3 |1975-09-13 |align=left|Chitre, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Pedro Mendoza |KO |1 , |1975-08-02 |align=left|Managua
Managua

Managua is the Capital city of Nicaragua as well as the Managua and Managua, Managua by the same name. It is also the largest city in Nicaragua....
, Nicaragua
Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jose Peterson |TKO |1 |1975-06-03 |align=left|Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida

Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ray Lampkin |KO |14 , |1975-03-02 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Andres Salgado |KO |1 , |1975-02-15 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Masataka Takayama |KO |1 , |1974-12-21 |align=left|San Jose, Costa Rica |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Adalberto Vanegas |KO |1 |1974-11-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left|Jose Vasquez |KO |2 |1974-10-31 |align=left|San José, Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica

San Jos? is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and is at the heart of Gran Area Metropolitana or GAM, located in the Costa Rican Central Valley....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Hector Matta |Decision |10 |1974-09-02 |align=left|Hato Rey, Puerto Rico | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Flash Gallego |TKO |7 , |1974-07-06 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesús

Esteban De Jesus was a Puerto Rico world lightweight champion boxing whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benitez....
 |KO |11 |1974-03-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Armando Mendoza |TKO |3 , |1974-02-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Leonard Tavarez |TKO |4 |1974-01-21 |align=left|Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Tony Garcia |KO |3 |1973-12-01 |align=left|Santiago de Veraguas
Santiago de Veraguas

Santiago de Veraguas is the capital of the Panamanian province Veraguas. Santiago is located in southern Veraguas near the provincial border with Herrera Province....
, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Guts Ishimatsu
Guts Ishimatsu

is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi, Japan. After retiring from boxing, he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian.As a boxer, he was known for his unpredictable style, sometimes marking completely unpredicted victories, and often losing in extravagant fashion as well....
 |TKO |10 , |1973-09-08 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Doc McClendon |Decision |10 |1973-08-04 |align=left|Hato Rey, 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....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Hector Thompson |TKO |8 , |1973-06-02 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Gerardo Ferrat |TKO |2 , |1973-04-14 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Javier Ayala |Decision |10 |1973-03-17 |align=left|Los Angeles, California | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Juan Medina |KO |7 , |1973-02-22 |align=left|Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jimmy Robertson |KO |5 |1973-01-20 |align=left|Panama City, Panama |align=left| |-align=center |Loss |align=left| Esteban De Jesús
Esteban De Jesús

Esteban De Jesus was a Puerto Rico world lightweight champion boxing whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mother, Clara Benitez....
 |Decision |10 |1972-11-17 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Lupe Ramirez |KO |1 , |1972-10-28 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Greg Potter |KO |1 , |1972-09-02 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ken Buchanan
Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan is a former world boxing champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.Boxing career ...
 |TKO |13 |1972-06-26 |align=left|Madison Square Garden, New York City |align=left| |-align=center |Win |align=left| Francisco Munoz |TKO |1 , |1972-03-10 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Angel Robinson Garcia |Decision |10 |1972-01-15 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kobayashi

Hiroshi Kobayashi, , is a former professional boxing.Kobayashi turned pro in 1962 and won the WBC and WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1967 by defeating Yoshiaki Numata by 12th round KO, in a bout where Numata was down once in the 6th and three times in the 12th roundand so becoming the undisputed featherweight champion of the world....
 |KO |7 , |1971-10-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Benny Huertas |TKO |1 , |1971-09-13 |align=left|Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Fermin Soto |TKO |3 |1971-07-18 |align=left|Monterrey, Mexico | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Lloyd Marshall |TKO |6 , |1971-05-29 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jose Acosta |KO |1 , |1971-03-21 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jose Angel Herrera |KO |6 |1971-01-10 |align=left|Monterrey
Monterrey

Monterrey is the capital city of the northeastern Mexico state of Nuevo Le?n and a Monterrey of the same name. Also known as "Sultana del Norte" , Monterrey is an important industrial and business center....
, Mexico | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ignacio Castaneda |TKO |3 |1970-10-18 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Marvin Castaneda |KO |1 , |1970-09-05 |align=left|Chiriqui
Chiriquí Province

Chiriqu? is a province of Panama, it is located on the western coast of Panama and is the most developed province in the country. The capital is the city of David, Panama....
, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Clemente Mucino |KO |6 , |1970-07-18 |align=left|Colon, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Ernesto Marcel
Ernesto Marcel

Ernesto Marcel is a retired Panamanian Boxing.Making his professional debut as a teenager in 1966, Marcel built up a record of 31-3-1, which included a second round knockout of Bernardo Caraballo, who had previously fought Fighting Harada and ?der Jofre for world titles, and a tenth round TKO loss to a young Roberto Dur?n, the only stoppag...
 |TKO |10 |1970-05-16 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Felipe Torres |Decision |10 |1970-03-28 |align=left|Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Luis Patino |TKO |8 |1969-11-23 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Serafin Garcia |TKO |5 |1969-09-21 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Adolfo Osses |TKO |7 |1969-06-22 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Jacinto Garcia |TKO |4 |1969-05-18 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Eduardo Frutos |Decision |6 |1969-02-01 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Alberto Brand |TKO |4 |1969-01-19 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Carlos Howard |TKO |1 |1968-12-07 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Juan Gondola |KO |2 |1968-11-16 |align=left|Colon, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left|Ulises De Leon |KO |1 , |1968-09-22 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Leroy Carghill |KO |1 |1968-08-25 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left|Enrique Jacobo |KO |1 |1968-08-10 |align=left|Panama City, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left|Eduardo Morales |KO |1 , |1968-06-30 |align=left|Panama City
Panama City

Panama City is the Capital and largest city of the Panama. It has a population of 708,738, with a total metro population of 1,063,000, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at ....
, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Manuel Jiménez |KO |1 |1968-06-15 |align=left|Colon, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Juan Gondola |KO |1 |1968-05-14 |align=left|Colon, Panama | |-align=center |Win |align=left| Carlos Mendoza |Decision |4 |1968-02-23 |align=left|Colón, Panama
Colón, Panama

Col?n is a sea port on the Caribbean Sea coast of Panama. The city lies near the Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal. It is capital of Panama's Col?n Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city....
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See also

  • List of lightweight boxing champions
    List of lightweight boxing champions

    This is a list of world lightweight boxing champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations:* The World Boxing Association , founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association ,...
  • List of WBC world champions
    List of WBC world champions

    List of WBC world champions is a table showing the world champions certificated by World Boxing Council ....
  • List of undisputed boxing champions
    List of undisputed boxing champions

    This is a list of current and past Undisputed Champion of boxing.* The World Boxing Association , founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association ,...
  • Notable boxing families
    Notable boxing families

    This is a list of boxing families with two or more notable boxers. Many families have had multiple members become famous in the sport of boxing with some having had multiple world champions....
  • List of boxing triple champions?
  • List of boxing quadruple champions
    List of boxing quadruple champions

    Group of Quadruple ChampionsIn boxing a Quadruple champion is a fighter who has won titles or belts in at least four different weight classes or divisions....
  • List of boxing quintuple champions
    List of boxing quintuple champions

    Group of Quintuple ChampionsThe following is the list of fighters who have won five different titles in five totally different categories of weight....


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