Rubén Olivares

Rubén Olivares
Data
Birth Name	Rubén Olivares
Weight class	Bantamweight
nationality	Mexican
birthday	January 14, 1947
place of birth	Mexico city
style	Left delivery
size	1.66 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	104
Victories	88
Knockout victories	78
Defeats	13
draw	3

Rubén Olivares (born January 14, 1947 in Mexico City ) is a retired Mexican boxer.

Professional career

The extreme attacking boxer Olivares began his professional career in bantamweight in 1965 in which he put down a spectacular knockout series and also defeated the Aboriginal Lionel Rose in 1969 for the WBA and WBC world championships prematurely. His record at the time was 51-0-1 (49 KOs). In 1970 he met his compatriot Chucho Castillo for the first time, with whom he always had difficulties and with whom he had an intimate enmity. He won the first duel on points, but had to go down. He lost the rematch due to a wound over his left eye suffered in the fight, the decisive match in 1971 was similar to the first fight.

In the same year he won against Jesus Pimentel by technical knockout after Pimentel's coach threw in the towel in the eleventh round. In 1972, however, he lost twice against his compatriot Rafael Herrera by knockout and on points, he had weight problems.

At that time there was no semi-featherweight, so he boxed at featherweight, where his punching power was no longer so extreme, his chin more vulnerable. Even so, he knocked out the undefeated Bobby Chacon, boxed 1-1 with Art Hafey and won the vacant WBA featherweight title in 1974. In the same year he went after an even fight against Alexis Argüello KO.

He won the WBC title in 1975 against Chacon, but lost it to Ghanaian David Kotey and was knocked out by Danny Lopez. He won a few more fights in 1976, but lost to Jose Cervantes and his old opponent Chacon in 1977. His career was almost over. He defeated the southpaw José Luis Ramírez (record 43-1) prematurely and got another World Cup chance in 1979, but went again against Eusebio Pedroza KO.

Others

It is a regular subject of popular debates who was the "bigger" or more powerful bantamweight, Olivares or his compatriot Carlos Zárate . The left hooks of both are legendary, Ring Magazine rated him number three in the bantamweight category behind Zárate and Éder Jofre , but ahead of Zárate in terms of his overall career.

In 1991 Olivares was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Rubén Olivares in the BoxRec database