Gaspar Ortega, another overlooked fighter (TV) from the mid-50's to early 60's. Gaspar "Indio" Ortega was a Mexican professional boxer and is considered one of the better Welterweight boxers from Mexico. Fought, but usually came up 'short'. against the really top fighters. Close wins over Kid Gavilan & Bennie Kid Paret were probably his 2 best wins. 131W 39L D6 69 KOs 2 KOs Elected into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995 Height: 5′ 9″ Total Fights: 176 This win below over Paret, got Ortega the WW Title shot against Griffith shown above ^^^. 1961-02-25 : Benny Kid Paret 154½ lbs lost to Gaspar Ortega 149½ lbs by UD in round 10 of 10 Location: Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA Referee: Jimmy Wilson 3-4 Judge: Frankie Van 4-6 Judge: Dick Young 3-5 "Gaspar Ortega scored an upset unanimous 10 round decision last night over world welterweight champion Benny (Kid) Paret in a non-title bout. The decision in the nationally televised slugfest was a popular one with the Olympic Auditorium crowd, estimated at 3,000. Ortega at first stayed in close with Paret, but in the middle rounds held the champion at a distance and connected with good looping rights to the jaw. Ortega's fast left jab also was very effective in slowing down Paret. The only blood drawn came in the 8th round, when Ortega suffered a cut on his left eyebrow from what appeared to be a butt by Paret. The two welterweights started out at the opening bell as if it were a 4 rounder and slugged toe-to-toe and head-to-head throughout. Paret was booed loudly in the 1st round when he hit Ortega with a right below the belt. Again in the 2nd round, referee Jimmy Wilson warned the Cuban to keep his punches up as the crowd roared." -United Press International Between the 2nd and 3rd rounds, the pro-Ortega crowd became so incensed by the low blows by Paret, they doused the champion with beer in his corner.
Also beat Tony DeMarco, Isaac Logart, Stan Harrington, Charley Scott, Rudell Stitch, Johnny Gonzalves, Tombstone Smith and lost a couple of heartbreakers to Denny Moyer and Federico Thompson.
Rt.....it is hard to list all those guys of the mid-50's - early 60's...who fought each other a lot...and didn't whine & cry if the decisions didn't go their way all the time.
I know what you mean. Compare an Ortega who fought the very best and numerous times against one of his contemporaries like Keith 'One Time' Thurman. One can only assume 'One Time' means how many times a year he fights and that pretty much says it all.
