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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. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that had it not been for his premature ...
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 ...
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 ...
Launched in 2017 as additional content for the UFC’s streaming platform, UFC Fight Pass, DWCS is now the main conduit for MMA fighters hoping to compete in the sport’s biggest promotion.
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 ...
Juan Laporte, also known as Juan La Porte (born November 24, 1959) is a former boxer [1] who was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico.In 1982, La Porte won the vacant WBC featherweight title, forcing undefeated Colombian Mario "Martillo" Miranda to quit on his stool.