Carlos Ortiz

http://www.ibhof.com/cortiz.htm

LIKE MANY great fighters, Carlos Ortiz first developed his fighting instincts on the street. When his family moved to New York City when he was a child, Carlos found himself in numerous street fights. He began training at the Madison Square Boys Club and turned pro at the age of 18 in 1955. He won his first 20 pro fights.
Ortiz became a world champion in 1959 when he avenged an earlier defeat against Kenny Lane to win the junior welterweight title. That title, however, had not been fought for in 13 years and meant little to the boxing world. So, after losing the crown to Duilio Loi on a controversial decision in the Loi's hometown, Ortiz focused on the lucrative lightweight division.
In 1962, Ortiz defeated Joe Brown to win the world lightweight title. He defended that belt successfully four time before losing to Ismael Laguna in 1965.
Seven months later, Ortiz decisioned Laguna in a rematch and regained the title. He made five successful defenses, beating the likes of Laguna, Johnny Bizzarro, Flash Elorde and Sugar Ramos, twice. He finally lost the crown to Carlos Teo Cruz in Cruz' native Dominican Republic in 1968.
Ortiz retired in 1969 and made a comeback bid in 1971. He won nine straigt fights before Kenny Buchanan stopped him in six rounds and ended his career.

Tito Trinidad

One of the Greatest Puerto Rican Boxers


During this time of cigar making Puerto Rico had their first world champion Sixto Escobar. He won his world title in 1930 against Baby Casanova. This was during the time of the great depression but also during a time that Latinos in New York were not being well represented. During this time when Sixto was champion Puerto Rican people in New York felt in a way that they not only could compete in sports but also in the working force and be succesful and brought a tremendous sense of pride to Puerto Ricans.

Mexican Champions

w.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Category:Mexican_World_Champions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mexican_American_boxers

These websites show all of the Mexican and Mexican American boxers. Take a look at the second website because it has a few boxers from East LA and Montebello.

Juan Diaz

Juan Diaz is a great Mexican American fighter who was born in Houston Texas on September 17,1983. He is undefeated with 33 victories and 17 KO's. Diaz is the current unified WBA & WBO & IBF lightweight champion. He began his professional boxing career when he was 16 years old. The reason why he started his professional career so early is because he tried out for the Mexican Olympic team but was not able to compete in Sydney 2000 because he was to young and did not want to wait another two years. The reason why I decided to talk about Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz is because he is a great role model for many Mexican American since he is a professional boxer and is currently a junior political science major at the University of Houston. This is very important because it helps break the false stereotype that Americans have about Latino boxers in the US. Which is that they are streetfighters who decided to make a living out of boxing some examples would be Bobby Chacon and the most recent Fernando Vargas.

De La Hoya not accepted by Mexican Fans

De La Hoya has not been accepted by Mexican boxing fans as a great Mexican boxers many hate him and refuse to watch his fights. The main reason so many Mexicans and Mexican Americans don't like him is because he beat the greatest Mexican boxer of all time Julio Cesar Chavez. Not only did he just win both of the fights that they had but he made Julio's corner stop the fight. Oscar is a great role model for many young Mexican American since he is the 4th best boxer of all boxing history. He has also made it possible for Mexican and Mexican American families to have hospitals and schools in East Los Angeles where he is from and in different parts of LA. Even though he is not accepted by Mexicans and some Mexican Americans for his victory over Julio he has given his people lots of things and continues to help young Mexican/Mexican Americans be succesful. Oscar is also helping Mexican fighters in Mexico since he is a promotor and the biggest and youngest promoter in boxing history. The way that he is helping them out is that he is paying them more than any other promoter and giving them contract that guarentees them and there families a pay check. The way that he does this is that he keeps the fighter for a certain amount of fights weather they lose them all. This just shows that he not only is a great role model in the ring but also in his personal life.

Rivalry

In the boxing world their has been a huge rivalry between Mexican and Mexican American boxers and it is still going on today. For example just to name a few fights like Salvador Sanchez (Mexico) vs El Coloradito Lopez (USA) and the two legendary fights between Oscar de la Hoya (USA) vs Julio Cesar Chavez (Mexico). The reason why I chose the topic of Mexican and Mexican boxers is because in the work field Mexicans were taking away the jobs from the Mexican Americans since they were doing the work for cheap because they needed to feed their families. This wasn't just happening in the work field but also in boxing since Mexican fighters were and still are fighting for less money. What this causes is if a Mexican American boxer and a Mexican boxer both have a chance to fight for a world title and they have the same qualities as fighters the promoter is going to choose the fighter that will fight for the least amount of money. Which most of the time is the Mexican boxer. The fight that comes to mind is Sanchez vs Lopez since Sanchez was not a famous fighter while Lopez was very famous in the U.S specially in L.A which is where most Mexican Americans like him lived. Lopez lost the two fights that he had against Sanchez which made the tension that were going on between Mexicans and Mexican Americans worse during the 80's.