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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.
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.
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 ...
Salvador Sanchez celebrates his victory over Azumah Nelson in their featherweight title fight on July 21, 1982, at Madison Square Garden. (The Ring Magazine/Getty Images) The fight was a hard ...
Vigil, 49, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the April 12, 2022, killing of Kenneth Sweetwater, 42, and Dominic Sanchez, 32, in the parking lot of the DK store and gas station ...
2 1 Battling Shaw: February 20, 1933 Light welterweight (L & M) 0 − Richie Lemos † July 1, 1941 Featherweight (M) 0 − Manuel Ortiz † August 7, 1942 Bantamweight (M) 19 2 Juan Zurita: March 8, 1944 Lightweight (M) 0 3 Lauro Salas: May 14, 1952 Lightweight (U, L, M & M) 0 4 Raúl Macías: March 9, 1955 Bantamweight (M) 2 5 José Becerra ...
Salvador Sanchez won't face a second trial for killing 32-year-old Kenneth French and wounding his parents in 2019 during a confrontation at a store in Corona, southeast of Los Angeles, the state ...
Felix Trinidad Sr. is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer and prominent boxing trainer. Mostly remembered for training his son, International Boxing Hall of Fame member Félix Trinidad, Felix Trinidad Sr. nevertheless was a Featherweight boxer during the middle and late 1970s and the early 1980s, who fought the likes of Salvador Sanchez and Enrique Solis.