Juan Roldan

Juan Roldan
Data
Birth Name	Juan Domingo Roldan
Fight name	Martillo
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Argentinian
birthday	March 6, 1957
place of birth	Freyre
style	Left delivery
size	173 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	165 (amateur + professional)
Victories	149
Knockout victories	100
Defeats	9
draw	6th
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Juan Domingo Roldán (born March 6, 1957 in Freyre , Córdoba Province ) is a former Argentine professional boxer .

Boxing career

He grew up in difficult circumstances as the son of a field worker in the province of Cordoba, known as the "heart of Argentina". He made his debut as a boxer at the age of 13. In his subsequent amateur career he played 90 fights, including 82 wins, 4 draws and only 4 defeats. He scored 53 of his victories early. In 1974 a journalist called him "Martillo" (German: "Hammer") in reference to this impressive clout for amateur conditions. Roldán then took over this name as a fighting name and kept it until the end of his boxing career. In 1977 he took part in the middleweight division of the South American Championships in Venezuela and reached the final. Since he had broken his jaw in a previous duel, he could not compete for the last fight and therefore retired with the silver medal.

He began professional boxing in 1978 and played a number of build-up fights , winning the Córdoba Championship in 1979, the Argentine Championship in 1981 and the South American Championship in 1982. By 1984 he also won against boxers with positive records such as Jacinto Fernández (43-5), José Burlón (47-5) and Roberto Ruiz (26-1). He also fought his first fights in the USA . In total, he played 57 fights in Argentina, the USA, Italy and Monaco up to the first chance at the World Cup , with only two defeats, two draws and one matchless fight. However, he was able to defeat each of these opponents in further battles.

On March 30, 1984 there was a fight for the unrestricted world middleweight championship between Marvin Hagler (58-2) and Juan Roldán (52-2) in the Riviera Las Vegas . Hagler held the world championship belts of all three boxing federations of the time ( WBA , WBC , IBF ) and had also defeated every opponent with whom he stood in the ring. In the first round, Roldán scored the first and only precipitation in Hagler's career. Hagler was hit illegally in the back of the head and fell to the ground, but referee Tony Pérez counted him. Roldán also scored other good goals, but was counted just as controversially in the third round after slipping into the ropes without impact. The fight finally ended in the tenth round with a tKo defeat by Roldán, after he signaled no more willingness to continue fighting after falling down. By then he had already suffered a badly swollen right eye and an injury to his nose.

For another World Cup chance he had to fight his way up again, with 13 wins against World Cup challengers such as Juan Ferreyra (24-2), Carlos Herrera (55-9) and James Kinchen (37-2), as well as against Ex - WBC world champion JB Williamson (22-2) arrive. So he received on October 29, 1987 in Las Vegas another World Cup chance for the WBC World Middleweight Championship. This had become vacant after Hagler had lost the title to Sugar Ray Leonard and he resigned it. His opponent was Thomas Hearns (44-2), who had also lost to Hagler once. Roldán tried in the first round with wild attacks to bring about a decision, but had to accept two knockdowns due to this open style of attack. In the second round, Roldán took another knockdown, but then boxed more level-headed and brought Hearns into trouble in rounds three and four before he himself went down in the fourth and was counted by a right from Hearns. Hearns became the first world boxing champion in four weight classes.

In 1988 he knocked out two opponents, including his compatriot Hugo Corro (50-5). He then received a third chance at the World Cup on November 4, 1988 in Las Vegas, this time for the IBF middleweight belt. However, he was knocked out in the eighth round against title holder Michael Nunn (31-0) after suffering a knockdown in the first round. After this fight he ended his active professional career with 67 wins (47 knockout), five defeats, two draws and a valueless fight.

For the three world championship fights he received a purse totaling 450,000 US dollars .

additional

In 1990 he was awarded the Diploma al Mérito at the Konex Awards along with 99 other Argentinian personalities .

In 2006 his biography appeared in a chapter of the book Boxeo ( ISBN 950-17-5519-3 ) by Carlos Irusta. In 2009 his autobiography Destino y Honor by Carlos Cornaglia was published.

Web links

• BoxRec profile
• Fundacion Konex