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Wilfredo Vazquez
(Wilfredo Vázquez Olivera)
(El Orgullo de Puerto Rico)

BORN   August 2 1960; Bayamón, Puerto Rico
HEIGHT 5-4 1/2
WEIGHT 117 1/4 - 135 lbs
TRAINER Angel Rodriguez

Vazquez was a scrappy, hard-punching warrior who came to fight; During his career, he won the WBA Featherweight Championship of the World, the WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World, the WBA Bantamweight Championship of the World, the IBF Inter-Continental Americas Bantamweight Championship, the WBA Fedelatin Featherweight Championship and the Bantamweight Championship of Puerto Rico

He defeated such men as Raul Perez, Eloy Rojas, Orlando Canizales, Yuji Watanabe, Bernardo Manuel Mendoza, Roque Cassiani, Carlos Rocha, Juan Polo Perez, Jae-Won Choi, Yuichi Kasai, Hiroaki Yokota, Genaro Rios, Freddie Cruz, Thierry Jacob, Luis Enrique Mendoza, Chan-Yong Park, Fernie Morales, Robert Mullins, Jose "Pambelito" Cervantes and Juan Carazo

1981
Jan 29 William Ramos              Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico         L  4
Feb 26 Felix Cortez               Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico        KO  2
Mar 26 Roberto Mercedes           Bayamon, Puerto Rico              KO  3
Apr 30 Eusebio Espinal            Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico         D  6
Jun 13 Reinaldo Roque             Miami Beach, Fl                   KO  2
          -Some sources report 6/17/81
Aug  8 Herminio Adorno            Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico         W  6
Aug 29 Pedro Alindato             Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico        KO  6

1982
Mar  3 Orlando Perez              Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico        KO  7
Mar 21 Rudy Perez                 Las Vegas, Nv                      W  6
May 30 Ion Trian                  Las Vegas, Nv                     KO  2
Jun 26 Jose Luis Martinez         Las Vegas, Nv                     KO  2
Aug  6 Sonny Long                 New York, NY                       W 10
Oct  9 Rudy Perez                 Las Vegas, Nv                     KO  2

1983
Feb  4 Euginio Paulino            New York, NY                      KO  5
May  1 Andres Torre               San Juan, Puerto Rico             KO  8
Jul 22 Robert Mullins             New York, NY                      KO  3
Oct 22 Ramon Cruz                 Atlantic City, NJ                 KO  1
Nov 25 Pedro Rodriguez            Las Vegas, Nv                     TK  3

1984
Mar 17 Juan Torres                San Juan, Puerto Rico             KO  4
          -Bantamweight Championship of Puerto Rico
Jun 23 Julio Guerrero             Hato Rey, Puerto Rico             NC  2
Sep 19 Javier Barajas             Las Vegas, Nv                      W 10
Nov  3 Norgie Castro              San Juan, Puerto Rico             KO  2

1985
Mar 13 Jeff Whaley                Atlantic City, NJ                 TK  3
Aug  9 Osvaldo Acevedo            Miami, Fl                         TK  5

1986
Feb  8 Miguel "Happy" Lora        Miami Beach, Fl                    L 12
          -WBC Bantamweight Championship of the World
May 24 Jose "Pambelito" Cervantes San Juan, Puerto Rico             KO  3
May 30 Antonio Avelar             Miami Beach, Fl                   LT  8
Oct  4 Jesus Munez                San Juan, Puerto Rico             KO  8

1987
Mar 14 Juan Carazo                San Juan, Puerto Rico             TK  1
Apr 11 Lee Cargle                 San Juan, Puerto Rico             TK  5
Oct  3 Chan-Yong Park             Seoul, Korea                      TK 10
          -WBA Bantamweight Championship of the World;
          Some sources report 10/04/87

1988
Jan 17 Takuya Muguruma            Osaka, Japan                       D 12
          -WBA Bantamweight Championship of the World
May  9 Khaokor Galaxy             Bangkok, Thailand                  L 12
          -WBA Bantamweight Championship of the World
Aug  1 Raul Perez                 Inglewood, Ca                      L 10

1989
Oct 26 Fernie Morales             El Paso, Tx                        W 12
          -IBF Inter-Continental Americas Bantamweight Championship

1990 
Feb  9 Patrick Kamy               Zaragoza, Spain                   KO  1
Jun 19 Israel Contreras           Miami Beach, Fl                   LK  1
Sep 10 Joe Orewa                  Inglewood, Ca                     TK 12
Nov 14 Atenor Solar               Zaragoza, Spain                   TK  2

1991
Apr  8 Paquito Openo              Inglewood, Ca                     KO  7

1992
Mar 27 Raul Perez                 Mexico City, Mexico               TK  3
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
May  1 Juan Batista Bisono        Miami, Fl                         KO  3
Jun 27 Freddie Cruz               Gorle, Italy                       W 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Dec  5 Thierry Jacob              Berek sur Mer, France             TK  8
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World

1993
Mar  6 Luis Enrique Mendoza       Levallois-Perret, France           W 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Jun 24 Thierry Jacob              Bordeaux, France                  KO 10
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Nov 10 Hiroaki Yokota             Tokyo, Japan                       W 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World;
          Some sources report 11/18/93

1994
Mar  2 Yuichi Kasai               Tokyo, Japan                      TK  1
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Jul  2 Jae-Won Choi               Las Vegas, Nv                     TK  2
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Oct 13 Juan Polo Perez            Levallois-Perret, France           W 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World

1995
Jan  7 Orlando Canizales          San Antonio, Tx                    W 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
May 13 Antonio Cermeno            Bayamon, Puerto Rico               L 12
          -WBA Super Bantamweight Championship of the World
Aug 26 Pablo Valenzuela           Miami, Fl                          W 10
Oct 26 Carlos Rocha               Ponce, Puerto Rico                KO  1
Dec  9 Jose Luis Velazquez        San Juan, Puerto Rico             TK  3
          -WBA Fedelatin Featherweight Championship

1996
May 18 Eloy Rojas                 Las Vegas, Nv                     TK 11
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World
Dec  7 Bernardo Manuel Mendoza    Indio, Ca                         KO  5
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World

1997
Mar 30 Yuji Watanabe              Tokyo, Japan                      KO  5
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World
Aug 23 Roque Cassiani             New York, NY                       W 12
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World
Nov  8 Genaro Rios                Las Vegas, Nv                      W 12
          -WBA Featherweight Championship of the World

1998
Apr 18 Naseem Hamed               Manchester, England               LT  7
          -WBO Featherweight Championship of the World
	 
2000
Mar 11 Antonio Oscar Salas        Miami, Fl                          W  8
Apr 15 Russell Mosley             Temecula, Ca                      KO  4
Jun 16 Juan Lazcano               Las Vegas, Nv                     LT  9
         -NABF Lightweight Championship

2002
Feb 22 Jose Alfonso Rodriguez     Miami, Fl                          W  8
Apr 12 Julio Cesar Cardona        Miami, Fl                         TK  2
Jun 28 Eddie Saenz                Kissimmee, Fl                     TK  4
Oct 11 Eddie Saenz                Bayamon, Puerto Rico              KO  2


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

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