Edwin Valero

Edwin Valero
Edwin Valero
Data
Birth Name	Edwin Valero
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Venezuelan
birthday	3rd December 1981
place of birth	Bolero Alto
Date of death	April 19, 2010
Place of death	Valencia
style	Legal display
size	1.70 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	27
Victories	27
Knockout victories	27
Defeats	0

Edwin Valero (born December 3, 1981 in Bolero Alto , Mérida , Venezuela ; † April 19, 2010 in Valencia , Venezuela) was a Venezuelan professional boxer .

career

Edwin Valero started boxing at the age of twelve. As an amateur he was three times Venezuelan champion. In 2000 he won the Central American and Caribbean Games in Caracas , where he defeated the Mexican Francisco Bojado on points in the final of the featherweight class .

On February 5, 2001, Valero, riding a motorcycle without a helmet , was involved in a serious traffic accident in which he sustained a skull fracture. He then had to undergo an operation to remove a blood clot , but was allowed to continue his boxing career.

In 2002 he turned pro. Soon he became aware of his quick knockout victories in the USA and so he was signed by Golden Boy Promotions , the promotion company of Óscar de la Hoya , after his twelfth fight . In January 2004, however, his boxing license was revoked after an MRI examination in New York .

He initially interrupted his career, but returned to the ring in 2005 and has since boxed mainly in Latin American countries and Japan . Valero won against his first eighteen opponents by knocking out in the first round, which at the time was a new record in professional boxing history. However, the record was broken in 2008 by the US middleweight Tyrone Brunson , who managed to decide his first 19 fights in the first round.

In his twentieth professional fight Valero got the chance to fight the Panamanian WBA title holder Vicente Mosquera in Panama City and secured the title with a technical knockout in the tenth round. Valero then moved to Japan and was there under contract with Teiken Promotions . He defended the WBA title four times until 2008 and then put down the belt to move to the next higher weight class, the lightweight. In March 2008, Valero in the US state of Texas again received a boxing license for fighting in the USA. On April 4, 2009 he won the fight for the vacant world title of the WBC in the lightweight against the 39-year-old Colombian Antonio Pitalua by technical knockout in the second round. He defended the belt twice, against Mexicans Héctor Velázquez and Antonio DeMarco, before resigning the title to move up to the light welterweight division.

On April 18, 2010, Valero was arrested at a hotel in Valencia on suspicion of the murder of his wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero. According to the police, he had confessed to the murder at the hotel reception. In the past there has been a lot of violence and arguments in the relationship, a lawsuit for assault had only taken place a few months earlier. On the morning of April 19, 2010, Valero tried to hang himself in his prison cell with his own clothes. He died immediately afterwards in the hospital of asphyxia as a result of the suicide attempt.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boxing champion Valero takes his own life at www.focus.de

Web links

• Edwin Valero in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Vicente Mosquera	World Lightweight Champion ( WBA ) August 5, 2006 - August 31, 2008	Jorge Linares
Manny Pacquiao	World Lightweight Champion ( WBC ) April 4, 2009 - February 9, 2010	Humberto Soto