Israel Vázquez

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Israel Vázquez

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Real name Israel Vázquez Castañeda
Nickname(s) Magnifico
Rated at Super bantamweight
Height 5 ft 4.5 in (1.64 m)
Nationality Flag of Mexico Mexican
Birth date December 25, 1977 (1977-12-25) (age 30)
Birth place Mexico City, Mexico
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 47
Wins 43
Wins by KO 31
Losses 4
Draws 0
No contests 0

Israel Vázquez Castañeda (born December 25, 1977 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the current WBC and Ring Super Bantamweight (=Junior featherweight) champion (122 lbs).

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[edit] Career

Vázquez is a relentless offensive fighter with a feared left hook. He turned professional at bantamweight in 1995 stopping his first nine opponents before getting knocked out himself. Now fighting mainly in the US and at junior featherweight, he bested 11 opponents, more among them the 20-0 Oscar Larios before losing again, this time on points.

In 2002, he met Larios again. This time, he was outboxed and stopped in the 12th round.

He rebounded with a stoppage of durable Ex-world title holder Jorge Eliecer Julio and won the vacant junior feather IBF title against southpaw Jose Luis Valbuena in 2003.

He knocked out undefeated Armenian Artyom Simonyan but opted to fight nemesis Larios for the third time for the WBC title instead of his IBF belt in 2005, winning the rubber match by a spectacular knockout victory in the third round thus becoming the Ring's Super Bantamweight world champion.

Vázquez defeated the WBO Bantamweight champion Jhonny González on September 16, 2006 in a bout were Vázquez was knockdown twice before coming back to win the match.

[edit] Vázquez vs Márquez trilogy

In his next bout, Vázquez lost his title to the number one ranked Bantamweight Rafael Márquez, on March 3, 2007 when he forfeited the bout due to an injured nose.

However, in a rematch bout on July, 2007, Vásquez fought and defeated Márquez by a knockout in the sixth round. The rematch was named Ring Magazine's fights of the year for 2007.

He fought Marquez for the third time on March 1, 2008, rising from a fourth round knockdown to prevail by split decision in another great fight. The Vázquez vs Márquez trilogy has been widely heralded as one of the best boxing trilogies in recent years.[1][2]

He is currently trained by Marco Antonio Barrera's coach, Rudy Pérez.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Boxing News: Israel Vazquez, Rafael Marquez, Gary Shaw, Ken Hershman and More Speak
  2. ^ ESPN - Notebook: It's trilogy time - Boxing

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Preceded by
Manny Pacquiao
Vacated		 IBF Junior Featherweight Champion
March 25, 2004 – December 3, 2005
Stripped		 Succeeded by
Steve Molitor
Filled vacancy
Preceded by
Óscar Larios		 WBC Super Bantamweight Champion
December 3, 2005 – March 3, 2007		 Succeeded by
Rafael Márquez
Preceded by
Rafael Márquez		 WBC Super Bantamweight Champion
August 4, 2007–present		 Incumbent


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