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Rafael "Bazooka" Limon

BORN   January 13 1954; Mexico City, Mexico
HEIGHT 5-5 1/2
WEIGHT 123-148 lbs

Limon was a wide-swinging, hard-hitting, left-handed fighter who was ready to wage war; He needed a solid chin to battle the way he did - and he had one; During his career, he lost but 23 of 77 bouts (including 12 of his last 14 which tarnished his fine record) and scored 39 knockouts; During his career, he won the WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World and the NABF Super Featherweight Championship

He defeated such men as Lionel Rose, Bobby Chacon, Frankie Baltazar, Idelfonso Bethelmy, Rolando Navarrete and Chung Il Choi

1972
Dec  5 Jose Garcia                Mexico City, Mexico               KO  1

1973
Feb  3 Raul Juarez                Mexico City, Mexico               TK  5
Feb 10 Joel Carmona               Mexico City, Mexico               TK  1
Mar 21 Magdaleno Andrade          Mexico City, Mexico               TK  4
Jun  8 Carlos Mimila              Mexico City, Mexico               LT  2
Sep  1 Ventura Perez              Mexico City, Mexico               KO  1
Sep 20 Juan Ordonez               Mexico City, Mexico               LT  4
Nov  1 Canelo Salinas             Mexico City, Mexico                L  8

1974
Jan 19 Armando Estevez            Mexico City, Mexico               TK  3
Mar  9 Chamaco Casanova           Mexico City, Mexico               TK  7
Apr  6 Antonio Nava               Mexico City, Mexico               LT  7
Jun  1 Canelo Salinas             Mexico City, Mexico               TK  4
Jul 20 Gaby Morgan                Mexico City, Mexico               LF 10
Sep 14 Jose Pozos                 Mexico City, Mexico               KO  1
Sep 29 Alejandro Perez            Mexico City, Mexico               TK  4
Oct 28 Salvador Medina            Mexico City, Mexico               KO  3
Dec  4 Memo Ramirez               Mexico City, Mexico               TK  3
Dec 17 Edel Borunda               Juarez, Mexico                    TK  3
Dec 29 Jose Luis Navarette        Juarez, Mexico                    KO  3

1975
Jan  3 Goyo Martinez              Aguascalientes, Mexico            KO  3
Feb  8 Jesus Rodriguez            Mexico City, Mexico               TK  4
May  4 Memo Rodriguez             Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico           L 10
Jun 11 Victor Ramirez             Mexico City, Mexico                W 10
Jul 12 Jose Luis Meza             Mexico City, Mexico                W 10
Sep 13 Victor Ramirez             Mexico City, Mexico                L 10
Nov 15 Juan Pablo Oropeza         Mexico City, Mexico                W 10
Dec  7 Bobby Chacon               Mexicali, Mexico                   W 10

1976
Feb  1 Vicente Blanco             Mexicali, Mexico                   W 10
Mar 15 Tomas Frias                Mexico City, Mexico                W 10
May  4 Antonio Rodriguez          Tijuana, Mexico                    W 10
Jun  7 Saul Montana               Tijuana, Mexico                    W 10
Jul 10 Ray Thomas                 Juarez, Mexico                    TK  1
Aug  6 Ruben Coria                Inglewood, Ca                     TK  4
Aug 28 Lionel Rose                Inglewood, Ca                     TK  3
Oct  2 Teruyoshi Nohi             Los Angeles, Ca                   KO  2
Nov 13 Jesus Rodriguez            Culiacan, Mexico                  TK  5

1977
Mar 13 Leonardo Bermudez          Culiacan, Mexico                   D 10
May 31 Augustin Estrada           San Antonio, Tx                    W 10
Aug  6 Mar Basa                   Los Angeles, Ca                   TK  3
Sep  2 Antonio Llamas             Coatzacoalcos, Mexico             TK  3
Sep 15 Hector Munoz               Reynosa, Mexico                   KO  3
Oct  8 Ray Saldivar               Inglewood, Ca                     KO  3
Oct 22 Aurelio Muniz              Mante, Mexico                     LF  6
Oct 29 Benjamin Ortiz             Inglewood, Ca                      W 10

1978
Mar  4 Ernest Bing                Los Angeles, Ca                   TK 10
          -NABF Super Featherweight Championship
Apr 15 Jose Isaac Marin           Los Angeles, Ca                   KO  1
Jun 10 Rocky Ramon                Oklahoma City, Ok                  W 10
Aug  6 Juan Villa                 Stockton, Ca                      KO  7
Aug 26 Jaime Nava                 Fresno, Ca                        KO 10
Dec  4 Abe Perez                  Tijuana, Mexico                   TK  6
Dec 19 Robert Vasquez             Houston, Tx                       KO  5

1979
Feb 26 Miguel Estrada             Houston, Tx                       KO  5
Apr  9 Bobby Chacon               Los Angeles, Ca                   TD  7
          -NABF Super Featherweight Championship
Jul  8 Alexis Arguello            New York, NY                      LT 11
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Nov 27 Faustino Pena              Houston, Tx                        W 10

1980
Mar 21 Bobby Chacon               Inglewood, Ca                      L 10
Apr 25 Frank Ahumada              Anaheim, Ca                        W 10
Jul 24 Frankie Baltazar           Los Angeles, Ca                   TK  4
          -NABF Super Featherweight Championship
Dec 11 Idelfonso Bethelmy         Los Angeles, Ca                   TK 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World

1981
Mar  8 Cornelius Boza-Edwards     Stockton, Ca                       L 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Dec 10 Darrell Stovall            Los Angeles, Ca                   KO  5

1982
May 29 Rolando Navarrete          Las Vegas, Ca                     TK 12
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Sep 18 Chung Il Choi              Los Angeles, Ca                   TK  7
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World
Dec 11 Bobby Chacon               Sacramento, Ca                     L 15
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World

1983
Aug  7 Hector "Macho" Camacho     San Juan, Puerto Rico             LT  5
          -WBC Super Featherweight Championship of the World

1986
Apr  5 Oscar Bejines              Palm Springs, Ca                  LT  4

1987
Aug 29 Santos Moreno              in Mexico                         KO  4

1988
Jun  4 Julio Cesar Chavez         Mazatlan, Mexico                  LT  7
Dec 23 Rolando Navarrete          Manila, Philippines                L 10

1989
Apr 30 Chil-Sung Chun             Jeonju City, Korea                 L 10
Oct 18 Momong Mana-ay             Honolulu, Oahu, Hi                 L 10

1990
Mar  8 Sharmba Mitchell           Atlantic City, NJ                  L  8
Jun 21 Angel Hernandez            San Juan, Puerto Rico             LT  3
Nov  1 Moises Perches             Mazatlan, Mexico                  LK  2

1991
Aug 23 Felipe Rojas               in Mexico                         KO 10

1993
May 15 Gregorio Balcazar          Cancun, Mexico                    LT  5

1994
Sep  7 John Armijo                Huntington Park, Ca               LK  7

Record courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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