Bobby Chacon (born November 28, 1951) in Sylmar, CA, USA, and was a two time world boxing champion. For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Sylmar is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles California. Chacon is a native of California, where he campaigned most of his career. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo. Jesus Castillo Jr. is Professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation as a member of the Hispanic stable Los Boricuas in Fourteen months into his professional career, Chacon faced world champion Ruben Olivares but lost the bout when Olivares scored a ninth round knock out. Rubén Olivares (born January 14, 1947) is a former boxer of Mexican nationality
After suffering his first defeat against Olivares, Chacon won his next four bouts then faced off against cross-town rival and future champion Danny Lopez. Danny Lopez (born July 6, 1952) is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne Utah. Chacon outboxed Lopez and stopped him in the ninth round.
On July 9, 1974, Chacon won the vacant WBC Featherweight title by defeating former WBA Junior Lightweight champion Alfredo Marcano in nine rounds at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Grand Olympic Auditorium is the former name of a sports venue in Los Angeles California, United States. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West During his first period as a world champion, Chacon got to meet, and like, what many refer to as the sweet life. He became an alcoholic and he loved partying. His clashes with the law became matters of public knowledge, and his life went on a wild downward spiral.
Chacon lost his title in his second defense against arch-rival Ruben Olivares. Almost immediately after his loss against Olivares, he fought the first of his four fight rivalry with another world champion, Rafael Bazooka Limon. Rafael Limón (born ca 1956 is a Mexican former boxer who was a world champion in the Super Featherweight /Jr They would engage in what some boxing experts and historians have described as one of the fiercest and most spectacular boxing rivalries in history. Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight, Limon beat Chacon in their first bout by a decision.
Chacon then scored nine straight wins, leading him to a third match with Olivares. This time Chacon defeated Olivares in their 12 round bout by a decision. In Chacon's next fight, he lost an upset decision to Arturo Leon. Chacon rebounded by scoring victories over Ignacio Campos, Augie Pantellas, Gerald Hayes and Shig Fukuyama. Gerald Hayes (born October 10 1980) is a Linebacker currently playing for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He then fought to a technical draw in a rematch against Rafael Limon.
In November of 1979, Chacon received a shot at the WBC title versus world champion Alexis Arguello. The World Boxing Council was initially created by 11 countries the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Pro career "The Explosive Thin Man" suffered an unavenged first round TKO loss in his 1968 professional debut but then won 36 of his next 38 bouts which then led him to Limon defeated him by knock out after Chacon suffered a bad cut in the seventh round.
In 1980, Chacon had only one fight, but it was a significant one. He beat Limon in their third bout, and the WBC once again made him their number one challenger.
In 1981, Arguello had left the title vacant and gone up in weight to pursue the world's Lightweight title. "The world " is a proper noun for the planet Earth envisioned from an Anthropocentric or Human Worldview, as a place Limon then beat Idelphonso Bethelmy by a knockout in 15 in Los Angeles to win the WBC world Jr. Lightweight championship. In his first title defense, he lost it by a decision to Uganda's Cornelius Boza Edwards, who, in turn, defended his title against Chacon on his first defense. The Republic of Uganda is a Landlocked country in East Africa. Cornelius Boza Edwards (born May 27, 1956 in Kampala, Uganda) is a former world Junior Lightweight Boxing champion In a televised bout, Edwards retained the world title by a knockout in the thirteenth round.
Chacon would go on to win five in a row in 1982, including a rematch victory over Arturo Leon, which kept him as the number one challenger, but then a dramatic development outside the ring would change his life forever: Chacon's wife, Valerie Chacon, flew to Hawaii on February of that year, hoping to convince him to leave boxing and move there if she found them good jobs. Valerie Chacon (1951 – March 16, 1982) was the wife of world champion boxer Bobby Chacon. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the She was able to find a job, but unable to convince him to join her in Hawaii, so she flew back. She pleaded for him to leave the sport but wasn't able to convince him to do so, and one night before he boxed Salvador Ugalde, she grabbed a rifle and shot herself, dying instantly. Chacon went through with the fight and KO'ed Ugalde in the third round. He dedicated his win to his deceased wife.
Two more victories would follow, and then came his fourth and final bout with Limon. Limon had regained the world's Jr. Lightweight title by beating Rolando Navarrete by a knockout in 12 rounds. Rolando Navarrete is a Filipino ex-boxer who won the WBC Super featherweight title from Cornelius Boza Edwards in Italy in 1981 Navarrete, for his part, had won the title by beating Edwards by a knockout in five in Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Chacon-Limon IV became one of the fights of the year and the decade, according to such magazines as Ring Magazine, KO Magazine, and The Ring En Espanol, and Chacon recovered from knockdowns suffered in rounds three and 10 to drop Limon in the closing seconds of round 15, and secure a close decision and his second world title in Sacramento. The Ring (often called Ring Magazine) is an American Boxing Magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing KO Magazine is a popular United States Boxing magazine It was first published in 1979 to compete with The Ring. The Ring En Español was a Spanish version of Boxing publication Ring Magazine.
About one year and a half after Valerie's suicide, Chacon remarried and bought a large farm with a mansion and, according to what he said at an interview, about 40 horses. He also acquired a collection of Rolls Royce cars and some other vehicles. A Rolls-Royce car may refer to vehicles produced by Rolls-Royce Limited (1906-1973 Rolls-Royce Motors (1973-2003 which was owned In between, he and Boza Edwards met for a second time, with his world title on the line, in what Ring Magazine called the fight of the year for 1983. Chacon rose from a knockdown in round one and recovered from a dangerous cut to drop Boza Edwards in round twelve and avenge his earlier defeat to the Ugandan former champion. He was then stripped of the world title for refusing to go to challenger Hector Camacho's home country of Puerto Rico to defend against him. Héctor Camacho (born May 24, 1962) nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}}
Chacon started 1984 with a move up in weight, to the Lightweight division, where he tried to join the exclusive club of boxing's three division world champions, but was knocked out in three during his challenge against world champion Ray Mancini in Reno. Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961) is an Italian-American former boxer. Chacon then beat Carlton Sparrow by a TKO in five rounds and announced his retirement.
Chacon came back in 1985 and he won five fights, including one against former world champion Arturo Frias by a knockout in seven, and a knockout in five over Rafael Solis , who had challenged Camacho for the world Jr. Arturo Frias (born October 27, 1956) is a Chicano who was a world champion boxer. Rafael Solis (born approx 1959) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. Lightweight title that had once belonged to Chacon. [1]
In 1987 and 1989 he won one fight each year, and then he retired for good. But Chacon's life was once again marred by tragedy when his son was murdered in 1991. In 1996, he was spotted at a public appearance in Phoenix, Arizona to see the Pay Per View fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Julio César Chávez together with fans at a public fight viewing held at a plaza there. Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, Pay-per-view (often abbreviated PPV) is the system in which Television viewers can purchase events to be seen on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event Oscar de la Hoya (ˈɒskər dɛlə ˈhɔɪə (born February 4 1973 &mdash nicknamed "The Golden Boy" &mdash is an Mexican American boxer Julio César Chávez González (born July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora) is a retired Mexican professional boxer But by year 2000, he was living in a run down hotel, after having lost his mansion, his farm and his cars. He had, according to the hotel's manager, no way to pay the rent, so the manager fixed a small room with boxing equipment and a few photos of Chacon in his heyday so that he could train street kids there as a way of paying for the rent and to help Chacon remember who he is to boxing fans. Supposedly, Chacon and the manager later had trouble, so Chacon currently stays with his mother.
Chacon had a record of 59 wins, 7 losses and 1 no contest, with 47 wins coming by knockout. He holds victories over seven other men who held a world title. Olivares, Castillo, Lopez, Marcano, Limon, Edwards and Frias.
Some of his fights were broadcast by HBO's boxing show, HBO Boxing, and he was also able to beat Olivares (by a ten round decision in the third and final bout between them) and the then undefeated future world champion Danny Lopez, by a knockout in 9. HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports television series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades Danny Lopez (born July 6, 1952) is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne Utah.
In January 2005, Chacon was elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall In December of that year, he, Mike Weaver and a group of lesser known former boxers from California held an autographs session before a boxing undercard in Los Angeles. This article is about the boxer For the hockey player see Mike Weaver (hockey; for the politician see Mike Weaver (politician. An autograph is a Document written entirely in the handwriting of its Author, as opposed to a typeset document or
He is referenced in the Warren Zevon song "Boom Boom Mancini. Warren William Zevon (January 24 1947 &ndash September 7 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American rock Singer-songwriter and Musician "
| Preceded by Eder Jofre Stripped |
WBC Featherweight boxing champion 7 Sep 1974– 20 Jun 1975 |
Succeeded by Ruben Olivares |
| Preceded by Rafael Limon |
WBC Super Featherweight boxing champion 11 Dec 1982–1983 Stripped |
Succeeded by Hector Camacho |