Pascual Pérez (boxing)
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| Nickname(s) | El León Mendocino | ||||||||||||
| Rated at | Flyweight | ||||||||||||
| Height | 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Argentine
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May 4, 1926 Mendoza, Argentina |
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| Died | January 22, 1977 (aged 50) | ||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 92 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 84 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 57 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Pascual Nicolás Pérez (May 4, 1926 – January 22, 1977) was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion.
Pérez usually did poor at the ticket gates in Argentina after he became world champion, forcing him to defend his world title on the road many times and to become known as a world-traveling champion. His first international success was a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in United Kingdom.
He and Delfo Cabrera were the only two Argentines to be an Olympic gold medalist, in the London Olympics of 1948, and reign as World Champion from 1954-1960. As an amateur he fought 125 bouts. Turning professional in 1952, he fought 92 fights (84 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw), in which he won 57 fights by knockout, a record that places him in an elite group of boxers who have won more than 50 fights by knockous. He made nine successful defenses of the world title, in total winning 18 titles. He is considered one of the three greatest flyweight boxers in history alongside Miguel Canto and Jimmy Wilde. Along with Carlos Monzon, he is considered one of the best fighters ever to box. He has been included in the International Hall of Fame Boxing. In 2004, the American Boxing Confederation posthumously declared him the South American champion.
Pérez was born into a family of winemakers in the Uco Valley, Tupungato district of the Mendoza province, where he was the youngest of nine children. He worked as a laborer for the family since childhood. In 1942, at age 16 started in boxing at the Rodeo Deportivo de la Cruz, led by Felipe Segura, showing superb skill and power, unusual for a lightweight boxer. Though naturally left-handed he trained right-handed; his height, which only reached 1.52 m as an adult, was smaller than the rest of his opponents in the flyweight division.
He debuted as an amateur in January 1944 and would contest in 125 bouts winning 16 championships, including the gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics. The first tournament he won was the Mendocino Novice Championship, in March 1944, just two months after his debut.
That same year, his father had to pay money to hire a farm laborer who could replace Perez in the vineyard, as a condition for granting legal consent required by the regulations on parental rights. His parents kept a reluctant attitude towards his fans, and he began fighting under the name Pablo Pérez to avoid being caught.
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