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ﾃ］gel Espada
ﾃ］gel Luis "Cholo" Espada Mangual (born February 2, 1948) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer. He was the World Boxing Association, WBA's world Welterweight champion in 1975-76. A music lover, Espada also organized, during the late 1970s, a Salsa music, salsa orchestra. Biography Early career Espada began his professional boxing career on March 11, 1967, with a defeat at the hands of future Antonio Cervantes world title challenger Josue Marquez, on a six-round decision, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. His next two fights were declared draws (ties). Both were against Luis Vinales. After another defeat and a draw (both against Chris Fernandez), Espada got his first win. On April 1, 1968, he knockout, knocked out Linfer Contreras in the first round in San Juan. After one more win, he fought outside Puerto Rico for the first time, losing on points after six rounds to future Roberto Durﾃ｡n world title challenger Jimmy Robertson (boxer), Jimmy Robertson, on September 27, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term ''welterweight'' was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents. If used, welterweight is typically between lightweight and middleweight. Etymology The first known instance of the term is from 1831, meaning 'heavyweight horseman', later 'boxer or wrestler of a certain weight' by 1896. This sense comes from earlier ''welter'', 'heavyweight horseman or boxer' from 1804, possibly from 15th century , meaning 'to beat severely'. Boxing Professional boxing A professional welterweight boxer's weight is greater than 140 pounds, and no more than 147 pounds (about 63.5窶66.7 kg). Current world champions Current champions Current world rankings =''The Ring''= As of April 21, 2025. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ring'' world champion =''BoxRec''= . Longest-reigning worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Donovan (boxer)
Matt Donovan may refer to: * Matt Donovan (ice hockey) (born 1990), American ice hockey defenceman * Matt Donovan (poet), American poet * Matt Donovan (fictional character), a character on the television show ''The Vampire Diaries'' * Matt Donovan (rugby league, born 1970), Australian rugby league player * Matt Donovan (Russian rugby league), Russian international rugby league player See also * Donovan (surname) {{hndis, Donovan, Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonzo Hayman
Alfonzo is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (1921窶1990), Venezuelan writer, critic, editor and historian * Carlos Alfonzo, Cuban-American painter * DeJuan Alfonzo (born 1977), American football wide receiver/linebacker *Edgardo Alfonzo a.k.a. "Fonzie" (born 1973), Major League Baseball infielder * Eliﾃｩzer Alfonzo (born 1979), professional baseball catcher * Josﾃｩ Luis Alfonzo (born 1961), Argentinian film actor * Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo (1903窶1979), Venezuelan diplomat, politician and lawyer Given name * Alfonzo Dennard (born 1989), American football cornerback * Luis Alfonzo Garcﾃｭa (born 1978), professional baseball first baseman * Alfonzo Giordano (1937窶2013), senior ranking officer in the Philadelphia Police Department, convicted of accepting bribes * Alfonzo Graham (born 2000), American football player * Luis Alfonzo Larrain (1911窶1996), Venezuelan composer, music director and producer * Alfonzo Ratliff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Gant
Johnny is an English language personal name. It is usually an affectionate diminutive of the masculine given name John, but from the 16th century it has sometimes been a given name in its own right for males and, less commonly, females. Variant forms of Johnny include Johnnie, Johnney, Johhny, Johnni and Johni. The masculine Johnny can be rendered into Scottish Gaelic as . Notable people and characters named Johnny or Johnnie include: People Johnny * Johnny 3 Tears (born 1981/82), American musician * Johnny Adams (1932窶1998), American singer * Johnny Aba (born 1956), Papua New Guinean professional boxer * Johnny Abarrientos (born 1970), Filipino professional basketball player * Johnny Abbes Garcﾃｭa (1924窶1967), chief of the government intelligence office of the Dominican Republic * Johnny Abel (1947窶1995), Canadian politician * Johnny Abrego (born 1962), former Major League baseball player * Johnny Ace (1929窶1954), American rhythm and blues singer * Johnny Adair (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Escalera
Alfredo "El Salsero" Escalera (born March 21, 1952) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer and is the former World Boxing Council Super Featherweight world champion. A native of Carolina, his nickname was "Salsero" because he was a fan of Salsa music. Escalera and his nephew Jesus Manuel Escalera is also a 2023 Florida Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee. Early boxing career Escalera had his first professional bout on September 4, 1970, against Bob Payzant, in Portland. He won by a knockout in round four. He would suffer his first defeat in his third fight, when faced against Doug McClendon, who beat him by a decision in six rounds on January 26, 1971, in New York. He won five bouts in a row, and then lost by decision in eight rounds to future world title challenger Edwin Viruet. He began 1972 by losing to another future world title challenger, Diego Alcala, by knockout in round eight, but he won his three other fights that year. In 1973, he began, once again, by losing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Gray
Clyde Gray (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian professional welter/ light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s who won the Canada welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) welterweight title against Armando Muﾃｱﾃｭz, and Pete Ranzany, World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title against Josﾃｩ Nﾃ｡poles, and World Boxing Association (WBA) World welterweight title against Josﾃｩ Nﾃ｡poles, ﾃ］gel Espada, and Josﾃｩ "Pipino" Cuevas, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight to , i.e. middleweight, he was managed by Irving Ungerman, and trained by Teddy McWhorter and Lee Black. Napoles-Gray welterweight title fight On September 22, 1973, Clyde Gray challenged undisputed world welterweight champion Josﾃｩ Nﾃ｡poles for the latter's title. The bout took place at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and was televised nationally in both Canada and the United States. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council (WBC) is an international professional boxing organization. It is among the four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO). Many historically high-profile bouts have been sanctioned by the organization with various notable fighters having been recognised as WBC world champions. All four organizations recognise the legitimacy of each other and each have interwoven histories dating back several decades. History The WBC was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Tunisia, the Philippines, Panama, USSR, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil. Representatives met in Mexico City on 14 February 1963, upon invitation of Adolfo Lﾃｳpez Mateos, then President of Mexico, to form an international organization to unify all commissions of the world to control the expansion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Monzﾃｳn
Carlos Roque Monzﾃｳn (7 August 1942 窶 8 January 1995), nicknamed Escopeta (''Shotgun''), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for seven years. He successfully defended his title 14 times against 11 different fighters. As of December 2024, he is ranked by BoxRec as the third greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. Known for his speed, punching power and relentless work rate, Monzon ended his career with a record of 87-3-9-1 with 59 knockouts; all of his losses were early in his career and were avenged. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, he was chosen by '' The Ring'' magazine in 2002 as the 11th greatest fighter of the last 80 years and voted him as the best middleweight title holder of the last 50 years in 2011. As of January 2018, Monzﾃｳn holds the 2nd longest unified championship reign in middleweight history at 9 consecutive defenses. Monzﾃｳn spent five and a half years in prison for killin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josﾃｩ Nﾃ｡poles
Josﾃｩ ﾃ］gel Nﾃ｡poles (April 13, 1940 窶 August 16, 2019) was a Cuban-born Mexican professional boxer. He was a two-time undisputed welterweight champion, having held the WBA, WBC, and ''The Ring'' welterweight titles between 1969 and 1975. He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His record of the most wins in unified championship bouts in boxing history, shared with Muhammad Ali, was unbeaten for 40 years. After debuting professionally in Cuba, he fought out of Mexico and became a Mexican citizen. Mexico Nﾃ｡poles debuted as a professional boxer on August 2, 1958, in Cuba, knocking out Julio Rojas in the first round. Nﾃ｡poles' first 21 bouts were in Cuba, against mostly unknown competition. He did beat ﾃ］gel Garcﾃｭa and Leslie Grant, but lost to Hilton Smith (in his first defeat). After beating Enrique Carabeo in March 1961, Nﾃ｡poles found himself a new challenge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de Leﾃｳn de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep mountain range, Cerro El ﾃ」ila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants. The historic center of the city is the Cathedral, located on Bolﾃｭvar Square, though some consider the center to be Plaza Venezuela, located in the Los Caobos area. Businesses in the city include service companies, banks, and malls. Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan area. The Caracas Stock Exchange and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's over million inhabitants. Before the arrival of Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in the 16th century, Panama was inhabited by a number of different Indigenous peoples of Panama, indigenous tribes. It Independence Act of Panama, broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Viceroyalty of New Granada, Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Muniz
Armando may refer to: * Armando (given name) * Armando (artist) (1929窶2018), the name used by Dutch artist Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd * Armando (producer) Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970 窶 December 17, 1996), who released material under his first name only, was an American house-music producer and DJ who was an early contributor to the development of acid ... (1970窶1996), Chicago house producer * ''Armando'' (album), studio album by rapper Pitbull * Armando (''Planet of the Apes''), a fictional character {{disambiguation, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
