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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Saant (15-4-1, five knockouts) made his debut as a professional boxer on March 12, 2015. The 28-year-old, hails from Ecuador. Bouts at the Ballpark gates open at 6 p.m. and fights start at 7 p.m.
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.