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Contested at the Caesars Palace hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, it pitted Wilfredo Gómez, a Puerto Rican who had a record of 32 wins, 0 losses, 1 draw, and all his wins by knockout, and who was the world's Jr. Featherweight champion, against the lesser known Salvador Sánchez, who hailed from Mexico with a record of 40 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw, and 30 wins by knockout.
Salvador "Sal" Sánchez Narváez (January 26, 1959 – August 12, 1982) was a Mexican professional boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Sanchez was the WBC and The Ring featherweight champion from 1980 to 1982. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that had it not been for his premature ...
Laporte was a mandatory challenger, meaning that Sanchez had to defend his WBC title against him or he could be stripped of the world championship. Don King, Sanchez's promoter, figuring that the fight would sell more tickets in a state near Mexico, worked a deal for the fight to take place in El Paso. A decisively pro-Sanchez crowd filled the ...
The Tuesday Night Fights: Knockouts! series was also released on DVD in a two-volume box set. CSI later came out with a series called Wide World of Fights , which has a much broader scope and includes mixed martial arts , kickboxing , and other combat sports footage in addition to some of the fights that were originally part of the Tuesday ...
UFC Fight Night: Sanchez vs. Riggs [1] (also known as UFC Fight Night 7) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 13, 2006 at the MCAS Miramar near San Diego, California. It was the first UFC event to take place on a military base.
A funeral Mass for Sanchez will be held on Friday, Aug. 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadelupe, 143 E. Patterson Ave. in Columbus. Burial will follow at Galloway Cemetery. smeighan@dispatch.com
His first two fights were losses to undefeated boxers but has won 30 of his next 38 since then, winning the WBC CABOFE featherweight title in 2011. Salvador was signed to Bob Arum 's Top Rank promotions.
Officer Salvador Sanchez, who was a seven-year veteran of the LAPD at the time of the shooting, was arrested Monday in Riverside County. ... Sanchez was with his young son in a Costco in Corona ...