Julio Gervacio
Julio Antonio Gervacio (born 1967) is a former boxer and Super Bantamweight champion titleholder from the Dominican Republic.
As a child, he relocated to Puerto Rico. He always expressed pride in his national background; and he considered himself a Dominican-Puerto Rican. In fact, he usually took both the flags of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to most of his fights.
Gervacio had an award winning amateur boxing career. His professional career as a boxer took off onn December 21, 1985, after he knocked out Felix Llanos during the first round at Caguas. After two more wins, he participated, alongside Juan Carazo, at an undercard held in Curaçao on May 30, 1986.
On June 22, he knocked out Pedro Arroyo in three rounds, as part of an undercard headlined by Azumah Nelson's successful world Featherweight championship defense against Danilo Cabrera. That win triggered off a streak of fourteen wins in a row, twelve of them by knockout, including another knockout win over Llanos, leading Gervacio to a match for the world championship.
WBA world Super Bantamweight champion Louie Espinoza of Phoenix, Arizona, had defeated boxer Tommy Valoy by a knockout after a four round match at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum to win the vacant world title. many fans attended the November 27, 1987, world championship fight between Gervacio and Espinoza. Gervacio became a world champion by defeating Espinoza with a relatively close (scores of 117-114, 116-113 and 116-112) but unanimous decision over Espinoza at San Juan's Roberto Clemente Coliseum.
On his first attempt to defend his newly acquired title defense and his undefeated record and his world title he lost to Bernardo Pinango after a split decision (scores of 113-114, 114-115 and 114-113).
Despite reeling off four wins in a row after his first defeat, Gervacio's career began to slide after losing to Espinoza. In his next world title attempt for the world Super Bantamweight title, he lost by a twelve round unanimous decision to Kenny Mitchell on April 29, 1989.
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