Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata was born in Panama City, Panamá Province, Panama on August 19th, 1958 and is the Boxer. At the age of 66, Hilario Zapata 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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Hilario Zapata (born August 19, 1958) is a Panamanian former professional boxer.
He competed for the WBC light flyweight and WBA flyweight titles before being disqualified for the WBC super flyweight championship twice.
Professional career
Zapata started his boxing career in 1977, defeating Victor Lopez in the second round by a landslide. In 77, he had 2 victories.
He made a fast ascension to the top, beginning in 1978. He was in Panama City for his fifth match, beating Guzmán by ten points. His next fight, against Yong-Hwang Kim in South Korea, was his first fight abroad; he gave himself a 20th birthday present by defeating Kim by a 10-round decision on August 19. For the vacant Latin American Jr. Flyweight belt, then met former world Flyweight champion Alfonso Lopez. Zapata lost his first match against Lopez after being defeated by a vote in 12.
He began in 1979 with a fight in Puerto Rico against Ramon Perez, who came out in nine by a knockout. By the end of the year, he had three more victories in 1979, including one over two-time world Flyweight champion Freddie Castillo, and by the end of the year, he was ranked number one in the world among Jr. Flyweight challengers by the WBC.
Zapata came from Japan in March 1980 and became the world Jr. Flyweight champion on the 24th day of that month. He defended his title against Chi-Bok Kim in South Korea, beating Hector Rey Melendez in Venezuela by a 15-round vote and beating Nakajima in a Tokyo rematch, winning by knockout in 11 and Reynaldo Becerra in Venezuela. He won by a 15-round decision over Becerra in 1980, putting him out of contention for 1980.
Joey Olivo, the 81-year-old champion of the United States Flyweight Championship, fought what was the first Jr. Flyweight title match to be shown live on American television until Michael Carbajal appeared nine years later. Zapata defeated Olivo in round 13 to keep his belt, then moved to San Francisco to keep the trophy for the third time, defeating Rudy Crawford in round 15. He defeated Mexican Torres by a vote in 15 to keep his belt, and then met Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh, retaining the belt by a knockout in 10.
Zapata lost the world championship in two by a knockout in two at Amado Panterita Ursua's hands, but Ursua will lose it to Tadashi Tomori in his next fight. Zapata regained the world title by defeating Tomori on a 15-round draw in Japan on July 20. He defeated future world champion and Zapata-conqueror Jung-Koo Chang by a vote in 15 in Chonju, and ended the year in with a rematch against Tomori in Tokyo, knocking Tomori out in eight rounds.
Zapata and Chang met again in South Korea on March 26, 1983, this time, and Chang became the world champion by defeating Zapata in the third round. Zapata was defeated by a tenacious blow out in 10 by Harold Petty on November 9 at Las Vegas on the Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Durán's undercard's week.
His career was clearly over, he bounced back from back to back losses and started winning again, but this time as a Flyweight. He had been ranked number one by the WBA among Flyweights by 1984, and on December 8 of that year, he met world Flyweight champion Santos Laciar of Argentina at Buenos Aires' historic Luna Park. Zapata lost in a 15-round decision that night, but the WBA gave him a second shot in 1986, after Laciar had vacated the crown, and he defeated Alonzo Gonzalez to win the WBA world Flyweight championship. He then defeated Javier Lucas to hold the belt. He retained the title against Shuichi Hozumi, Dodie Penalosa, Alberto Castro, and Claudemir Calvalho, all by decision, before losing it to Fidel Bassa of Colombia, also by a decision.
He attempted to become a world champion once more in 1993, but was disqualified in the first round by WBC world Jr. Bantamweight champion Sung-Kil Moon. If you beat Moon, Zapata will have been a member of the exclusive group of world boxing champions in three separate weight classes or more.
It can also be stated that Zapata's first pair of boxing gloves, which were 12 years old at the time, were also a gift from Duran himself.
According to one of their editorials, Panamanian newspaper El Panama America announced that Zapata should be inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame shortly. Zapata was inducted into the Hall of Fame in December 2015 and inducted into the fraternity in June 2016.
Zapata had a record of 43 victories and ten losses, with 1 draw and 14 wins by knockout.