Vicente Saldivar

VICENTE SALDIVAR d1985. Mexican professional boxer. He was a former WBC and a two-time WBA Featherweight Champion.He has frequently been ranked amongst the greatest in the history of that division by many noted boxing historians and critics. Career stats (40 fights with 37 wins). He currently holds the record for the most wins in unified featherweight title bouts and the longest unified featherweight championship reign in boxing history at 8 title bouts and 7 title defenses respectively. He fought in front of the fourth largest crowd ever (90,000 in Estadio Azteca) and has also regularly been cited as one of the finest left-handed fighters of all time. He died of cancer aged just 42 on July 18th 1985