Just got done rewatching Chavez vs Lockridge (86) and Chavez is listed and announced as 47-1-0...during the match the announcers refer to this, and sauggest that although Chavez has not to this point in his carrear been KD'd he was in fact DQ'd in 81...Chavez's camp has denied this but it has been supported and documented by the Mexican boxing commitee...was this loss expunged from his carrear as in later years it is not listed??? Any info?
Thank for the info...but why in 86' was it still listed as a loss, and supposedly verified and upheld by the mexico boxing commision?
It was done next day, Ramon Felix was a member of the Mexican Boxing Commission that overturned it next day LOL Figures
He lost the fight on a DQ. By some Orwellian ("1984") re-writing of history, the record books had been changed sometime in the late 80s when J.C. became "superstar".
Here it lay "For many years all the leading record books, including both Pugilato and The Ring Record Book, recorded the first loss of Julio Cesar Chavez as being by disqualification.... This has since been changed to a knockout victory for Chavez, based on confirmation from the local boxing commission in Culiacan that it altered the verdict the following day. Ramon Felix, manager of Chavez, happened to be a member of the Culiacan commission at the time." The A-Z of World Boxing by Bert Blewett (1996) at p. 341.
No worries Philly, pleased to help mate. I learnt something myself as well so the feeling is mutual :good
