Félix Trinidad

Félix Trinidad
Data
Birth Name	Félix Juan Trinidad Soria
Fight name	Tito
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	Puerto Rican
birthday	January 10, 1973
place of birth	Cupey Alto
style	Left delivery
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	45
Victories	42
Knockout victories	35
Defeats	3

Félix Trinidad, Jr. (born January 10, 1973 in Cupey Alto , Puerto Rico ) is a retired Puerto Rican boxer.

Professional career

Trinidad turned professional in March 1990 at the age of seventeen and initially boxed partly light welterweight, but mainly welterweight. He signed with the promoter Don King , his father became a manager and trainer.

In the build-up phase of his professional career, he was able to defeat the later IBF light welterweight title holder Jake Rodríguez on points and knock out the half welter world championship challenger Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes. In the latter fight, however, he was on the ground for the first time, as quite often in his career.

On June 19, 1993, he won the IBF welterweight title against Maurice Blocker by a spectacular knockout in the second round. He defended the title several times by knockout, but had to go back to the ground against Anthony Stephens . His explosive style quickly made him known, even if the opponents were not rated highly in independent rankings.

In 1994 he defeated Hector Camacho , who was not optimally prepared after drug problems and had also clearly lost a title fight against Julio César Chavez in the light welterweight division . Trinidad knocked him out, but couldn't knock him out. His next opponents, Oba Carr and Luis Ramón Campas , were unbeaten top 10 boxers at the time of the respective bout (in all leading newspapers such as Ring Magazine ). He was able to defeat both of them prematurely, but had to go down against both of them.

In February 1999, he boxed against one of the best boxers of the 1990s, Pernell Whitaker . Whitaker, however, had a long break after cocaine and alcohol problems and was clearly beaten on points by Trinidad.

Then it came on September 18, 1999 to the lucrative unification fight against the most famous non-heavyweight boxer in the United States, the WBC title holder Óscar de la Hoya . After a restrained fight over twelve rounds, Trinidad was disputedly declared the winner on points. He benefited from the misjudgment of de la Hoyas, who, believing a certain point advantage in the last lap, only tried to keep himself harmed. Thus, through inactivity, he gave this ultimately decisive round to Trinidad and thus awarded a possible 2-1 victory in his favor.

In 2000 he rose to the light middleweight division, beating undefeated WBA title holder David Reid , the third point victory against an Olympic champion after De la Hoya and Whitaker. In December 2000 he won prematurely against the undefeated Fernando Vargas and thus combined his WBA with Vargas' IBF light middleweight title. He was down in both fights.

Félix Trinidad in 2008 in the ultimately lost fight against Roy Jones Jr.

In 2001 he moved to the middleweight division and knocked out WBA title holder William Joppy . In a renewed unification fight against Bernard Hopkins on September 29, 2001 he had no chance and lost by technical knockout in the twelfth round. It was his first loss as a professional.

In 2004 he made a successful comeback with a victory over Ricardo Mayorga , but was then literally demonstrated by southpaw Winky Wright in October and then ended his career after his father no longer wanted to train him.

On January 19, 2008, after more than 2.5 years of inactivity, he returned to the ring for a duel against Roy Jones Jr. in New York's Madison Square Garden . He lost the fight against 39-year-old Jones over twelve rounds on points and had to go down twice in this fight.

Web links

• Félix Trinidad in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Maurice Blocker	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) June 19, 1993–3. March 2000	Vernon Forrest
Óscar de la Hoya	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) September 18, 1999–3. March 2000	Óscar de la Hoya
David Reid	World super welterweight boxing champion ( WBA ) March 3, 2000 – May 2001	vacant Fernando Vargas
Fernando Vargas	World super welterweight boxing champion ( IBF ) December 2, 2000 – May 2001	vacant Ronald Wright
William Joppy	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) May 12, 2001-29. September 2001	Bernard Hopkins