Vicente Saldivar
Vicente Saldivar was born in Mexico City, Mexico on May 3rd, 1943 and is the Boxer. At the age of 42, Vicente Saldivar 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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Vicente Samuel Saldvar Garca (May 3, 1943-85) was a Mexican boxer.
He was a former WBC and two-time WBA Featherweight champion.
Saldivar has consistently been rated among the top in the history of the division by several respected boxing historians and commentators.
He currently holds the most consecutive featherweight championship titles and the longest unified featherweight championship reign in boxing history, with 8 championship bouts and 7 defenses respectively.
Saldvar faced the fourth largest audience in Estadio Azteca, with 90,000, and has also been dubbed one of the finest left-handed combaters of all time.
Amateur career
Saldvar had a fruitful amateur career, winning the Mexican Golden Gloves title at bantamweight for the first time. He was invited to the 1960 Olympic team but he was disqualified in the first round of the Rome tournament by Ernst Chervet of Switzerland.
Professional career
Saldvar became a professional in 1961 and lifted the Mexican featherweight title with a second-round victory over Juan Ramrez on February 8, 1964. When he defeated future lightweight champion and hall of fame member Ismael Laguna on June 1, he earned his first major victory. He accumulated a record of 25–1, with his sole loss being erased by the disqualification.
Saldvar defeated fellow Mexican wrestler Sugar Ramos and future hall of famer Sugar Ramos in an 11th-round defeat in an extremely bloody contest on September 26, 1964. In which Saldvar had eight fruitful title defenses, his first reign as champion would last three years. Howard Winstone's trilogy brought the reign to a close.
In his first title defense, he defeated future champion Raul Rojas. He beat Winstone in their first meeting with a 15-round decision on September 7, 1965. By that win, he defeated Floyd Robertson by a second round knockout. In two straight bouts, he defeated Mitsunori Seki. Saldvar defeated Winston once more by a 15-round decision on June 15, 1967. Ring magazine published their second meeting on their list of the 100 greatest championship fights of all time in 1996. In the final installment of their trilogy, he defeated Winston by a 12th round knockout. Saldivar also resigned after the 1967 marathon in October. Winstone, three months later, claimed to be the WBC featherweight champion by defeating Mitsunori Seki with a 9th-round stoppage due to a cut right eye.
Saldvar returned to the ring on July 18, 1969, defeating José Legra, the current Featherweight champion and a future Featherweight champion. With a 15-round unanimous decision over Johnny Famechon on May 9, 1970, then regained the featherweight crown. This period, on the other hand, was short-lived. Saldvar lost the crown seven months later in his first defense against Kuniaki Shibata.
He would fight again before returning to the ring in 1971, but the lure of the ring was too strong. After 2 years and 3 months of inactivity for another title attempt on October 21, 1973, he returned at the age of 30. Éder Jofre, a fellow Hall of Famer and former bantamweight champion, was his opponent. Jofre, 37, had won the Featherweight crown after coming out of his own retirement (albeit a brief 7 month one). Saldvar's abilities had greatly weakened, and Jofre took the title with a fourth-round knockout in Brazil. Saldvar left for good after the war, and he was recalled for his brave work.