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Rodrigo Valdez

BORN   December 22 1946; Cartagena, Colombia
HEIGHT 5-9 1/2
WEIGHT 138-165 lbs
TRAINER Gil Clancy

Valdez was an extremely talented boxer who came to fight - and fight he could ! At his best, he was a difficult task for anyone to handle, including men like Carlos Monzon, Hugo Corro and Bennie Briscoe; During his career, he won the Middleweight Championship of the World

Rodrigo defeated such men as Bennie Briscoe, Gratien Tonna, Vinnie Curto, Joey Durelle, Bobby Cassidy, Antonio Aguilar, Rudy Robles, Ramon Mendez, Max Cohen, Edmundo Leite, Eugenio Espinoza, Mario Rositto and Raul Rodriguez

Herb Goldman ranked Valdez as the #25 All-Time Middleweight

1963
Oct 25 Orlando Pineda              Cartagena, Colombia              W  4
Nov  6 Eliecer De Avila            Cartagena, Colombia             KO  4

1964
Jan 15 Alejandro Parra             Cartagena, Colombia             KO  5
Feb  6 Humberto Hurtado            Cartagena, Colombia              W  6
Feb 28 Alejandro Parra             Barranquilla, Colombia           W  8
May 15 Fernando Alvarez            Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  8
Sep 12 Manuel "Jack" Hernandez     Barranquilla, Colombia           W 10

1965
Jul  9 Elias Hidalgo               Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  5
Oct  2 Juan "Rudy" Escobar         Barranquilla, Colombia          LK  6

1966
Mar 13 Rafael Luna                 Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Jun  8 Rocky Ulloa                 Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Jun 29 Lucero Acary                Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
Jul 29 Elias Lian                  Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Nov  4 Alfonso Franco              Cartagena, Colombia              W 10

1967
Jan 22 Julio Novella               Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
Mar  5 Eugenio Espinoza            Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Apr  2 Mario Rosito                Cartagena, Colombia              D 10
Jun 10 Kid Revolledo               Sincelejo, Colombia              W 10
Aug 12 Baby Mendez                 El Carmen, Colombia              W 10
Aug 29 Kid Peche                   Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Oct  1 Humberto Trottman           Cartagena, Colombia              W 10
Dec  3 Richard Morales             Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2

1968
Jan 21 German Gastelbondo          Cartagena, Colombia              D 10
Apr 15 Cartagenita Kid             Cartagena, Colombia             KO  7
Aug  6 Humberto Trottman           Las Vegas, Nv                    W 10

1969
Feb 16 Daniel Guanin               Quito, Ecuador                   L 10
Jun  4 Linfer Contreras            Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
Aug  6 Peter Cobblah               Las Vegas, Nv                    W 10
Sep  3 Mike DeFeo                  Las Vegas, Nv                   KO  1
Sep 17 David Melendez              New York, NY                    KO  5
Oct 18 Raul Rodriguez              Los Angeles, Ca                 KO  9
Dec 11 Denny Stiletto              Las Vegas, Nv                   KO  1

1970
Feb 14 David Oropeza               Los Angeles, Ca                 KO  1
Mar  2 Pete Toro                   New York, NY                     L 10
May  1 Cassius Green               New York, NY                     W 10
May 11 Ralph Palladin              New York, NY                     L 10
Jul 24 Juan Cordoba                Medellin, Colombia              KO  9

1971
Jan 24 Juan Jimenez                Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
Mar  5 Arturo Lans                 Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  5
Apr 27 Marcos Tordoya              Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  4
Jun 28 Edmundo Leite               New York, NY                     W 10
Aug  9 Bobby Cassidy               New York, NY                    KO  7
Oct 19 Perry Abney                 New York, NY                    KO  1
Nov 25 Doc Holliday                New York, NY                    KO  4

1972
Apr  2 Milton Mendez               Valledupar, Colombia            KO  2
Aug 10 Juan Cordoba                Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  6
Aug 28 Roy Edmonds                 New York, NY                    KO  2
Sep 29 Lloyd Duncan                New York, NY                     W 10
Dec 18 Carlos Marks                Paris, France                    W 10

1973
Mar  5 Jose Rodriguez              New York, NY                    KO  5
Apr 16 Kim Booker                  New York, NY                    KO  5
Jun  5 Leon Washington             Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  9
Jul 19 Antonio Aguilar             Bogota, Colombia                 W 10
Sep  1 Bennie Briscoe              Noumea, Colombia                 W 12
          -NABF Middleweight Championship
Dec 14 Joey Durelle                Bogota, Colombia                KO  2

1974
Mar 16 Ernie Burns                 Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
May 25 Bennie Briscoe              Monte Carlo, Monacco            KO  7
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
Sep  7 Cubby "Topcat" Jackson      Cartagena, Colombia             KO  2
Oct 25 Vinnie Curto                New York, NY                     W 10
Nov 13 Gratien Tonna               Paris, France                   KO 11
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

1975
May 31 Ramon Mendez                Cali, Colombia                  KO  8
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
Aug 16 Rudy Robles                 Cartagena, Colombia              W 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World

1976
Mar 28 Max Cohen                   Paris, France                   KO  4
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World
Jun 26 Carlos Monzon               Monte Carlo, Monacco             L 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Oct 24 Ramon Beras                 Cartagena, Colombia             KO  7

1977
Mar 19 Oreste Lebron               Barranquilla, Colombia          KO  5
Jul 30 Carlos Monzon               Monte Carlo, Monacco             L 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Nov  5 Bennie Briscoe              Campione d'Italia, Switzerland   W 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

1978
Apr 22 Hugo Corro                  San Remo, Italy                  L 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Sep 30 Mayfield Pennington         Bogota, Colombia                KO  7
Nov 11 Hugo Corro                  Buenos Aires, Argentina          L 15
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

1980
May 14 Charles Hayward             Bogota, Colombia                KO  7
Nov 28 Gilberto Almonte            Bogota, Colombia                KO  1



Record courtesy of Matt Tegen, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization
 

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