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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.
He met legendary Mexican world Featherweight champion Salvador Sánchez there. Laporte made Sanchez work hard and won a handful of rounds. He lost to Sanchez by a 15-round unanimous decision. Laporte then fought future world champion Rocky Lockridge in 1981 at Las Vegas, scoring a second-round knockout to become the United States Featherweight ...
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 ...
This allowed him to keep his ranking as number one challenger by the WBC, and so, on February 20, 1983, he received his third world title try, when he challenged Juan Laporte, who had relieved Sanchez as WBC world champion after Sanchez died in a car accident. This bout was held at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He won some ...
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In the French case, the $17.7-million payout is roughly the same amount awarded by a federal jury in 2021 after Officer Salvador Sanchez was found to have used excessive and unreasonable force ...
Juan Laporte, the Puerto Rican WBC world featherweight champion who had succeeded Salvador Sanchez as champion after Sanchez's death at age 23 in 1982 and then defended it against Ruben Castillo on February of 1983, went into his fight with De la Rosa on 25th June, 1983 at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan [9] expecting an easy victory against the young Dominican challenger.
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