Carlos Palomino
Carlos Palomino was born in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico on August 10th, 1949 and is the Boxer. At the age of 74, Carlos Palomino biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Carlos Palomino (born August 10, 1949) is a retired Mexican professional boxer.
Palomino is a former World Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Palomino is also an actor who has been featured in several television shows and films.
He achieved a considerable amount of fame during the 1970s, especially among Mexican and Southern California fans.
Early life
He moved to Los Angeles, California from his native Mexico when he was ten years old.
Amateur boxing career
Palomino served as an All-U.S. Army champion in 1971 and 1972. Palomino won the 1972 National AAU Light Welterweight Champion at 137 lb., defeating eventual Olympic gold medalist Ray Seales. He was released from the Army later this year and enrolled at Orange Coast College and later Long Beach State, where he earned a degree.
Professional boxing career
In 1972, his name became more popular in California. The number of his fights taking place there is most likely explains this. In 1973, he won five fights (one by knockout).
Palomino went through a rise in opposition in 1974. He fought six fights and lost one. He defeated David Arellano twice by a vote in ten and by nominating in nine, as well as Tommy Howard by a tenther, but he lost to Andy Price, a title contender at the time, by a ten in San Diego.
He won four fights in 1975 and lost two, and drew in two. He and Zovek Baraja had two bouts this year, the first one resulting in a ten-round draw and the second one a nine-round knockout win for Palomino. He also drew with Hedgemon Lewis.
Palomino and his assistants arrived in London in 1976, where they would meet with WBC world championship champion John H. Stracey, a British boxing coach who had dethroned José Nápoles as the world champion. Palomino was a world champion on June 22nd of this year at Wembley Arena, after Stracey succumbered to a blistering body assault and was dragged twice from left hooks to the liver. Many Mexicans who viewed Nápoles, a Cuban-born Mexican national, as another countryman, saw this as a revenge for Stracey.
Armando Muz, a Mexican boxer with a strong Mexican history, was waiting six months for his next fight against another well-known boxer of Mexican origins. Many followers were guessing who would win it months before it happened, but it also made history in boxing: On January 21, 1977, two college graduates met for the first time in boxing history. Palomino graduated from Long Beach State University in recreation management, while Muniz obtained a master's degree in mathematics and minored in math and minored in math, and was planning on a graduate degree in administration. Palomino and Muniz, a California high school teacher, fought for what the book The Ring: Boxing in the twentieth century. Century has been described as one of the best battles of 1977. Both three judges were tied on their scorecards after 14 rounds, but Palomino scored two knockdowns in the fifteenth and final round, retaining the world championship by a knockout in the final round. A return to London culminated in an 11th-round victory over Dave Boy Green, who defended Everaldo Costa Azevedo and Jose Palacios, with Azevedo defeated by a decision in fifteen and Palacios ending in thirteen. For the first ten rounds of the match, Azevedo was actually defeating Palomino.
With a victory over Ryu Sorimachi in seven, a knockout in nine over Mimoun Mohatar, and a decision in fifteen in his long-awaited rematch with Muniz, he defended his crown.
His championship run ended in 1979, when he travelled to Puerto Rico, where he was defeated by hometown boxer Wilfred Bentez on January 13 by a controversial fifteen-round split vote. Referee Zach Clayton won Palomino's favor by beating the opposition 145–142, but judges Jay Edson and Harry Gibbs disagreed. Bentez defeated Edson 146-142. Gibbs scored for Bentez, 146-143.
Palomino's next fight, in another nationally televised match, was June 22nd of that year at Madison Square Gardens, as part of the Larry Holmes–Mike Weaver world Heavyweight championship match's undercard. Palomino lost by a vote in ten rounds to Duran, and he announced his retirement from boxing right away.
Palomino started his comeback on January 10, 1997, defeating Ismaél D az by a single point in round nine. He won four fights this year, including one over former world champion Rene Arredondo, but after losing by decision in ten to former Oscar De La Hoya world champion Wilfredo Rivera on May 30, 1998, he has been in retirement ever since.