Carlos Zárate (boxer)

Carlos Zárate
Data
Birth Name	Carlos Zárate Serna
Weight class	Bantamweight
nationality	Mexican
birthday	May 23, 1951
place of birth	Tepito
style	Left delivery
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	70
Victories	66
Knockout victories	63
Defeats	4th

Carlos Zárate (born May 23, 1951 in Tepito , Mexico ; actually Carlos Zárate Serna ) is a former Mexican boxer.

Career

Zárate won all 33 amateurs fights, 30 by knockout. He turned pro bantamweight in 1970. He defeated his first 23 opponents all by short-round knockouts . When he fought for the WBC bantamweight title after 39 wins , he had only needed the full distance of ten rounds against Victor Ramirez. The fight against the also hard hitting Mexican world champion Rodolfo Martínez (balance 42-3-1 (34)) on May 8, 1976 he won by knockout in the ninth round.

At the same time, Alfonso Zamora was another undefeated Mexican title holder of the then only rival association WBA . Zamora had even won all of his 29 fights early, with KOs over Soo-Hwan Hong and Eusebio Pedroza . On April 23, 1977 there was a fight between the two.

Since the fighting associations could not come to an agreement, the two boxers, called "Z Boys" by the US press, agreed on a nominal non-title fight. Zarate won by technical knockout in the fourth round.

In 1978 he challenged the WBC world champion in the next higher weight class, the semi-featherweight world champion Wilfredo Gómez , with a record of 55-0 (54) , who not only had a similar knockout rate with 21-0-1 (21), but on top of that came from Puerto Rico , Mexico's traditional rival in sports. Zarate even traveled to San Juan to fight but lost by knockout.

But he still had his bantamweight belt. But he lost this in 1979 to his compatriot Lupe Pintor in a point decision, which Ring Magazine describes as probably the biggest wrong decision of the 1970s . He was so disappointed that he ended his career.

In 1986 he returned to the ring, but was defeated by the Australian Jeff Fenech in the fight for the semi-featherweight title of the WBC, shortly afterwards he lost to Daniel Zaragoza. In 1988 he stopped for good.

The Ring Magazine chose him in the 1990s at the best bantamweight ever before Éder Jofre , his compatriot Rubén Olivares , Manuel Ortiz and Panama Al Brown . In 1994, Zárate was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Carlos Zárate in the BoxRec database