Alberto Herrera: Two Distinct Boxing Careers
Alberto Herrera is a name shared by two professional boxers whose careers must be kept separate. The Ecuadorian fighter competed during the 1960s and 1970s and faced Samuel Serrano, Alexis Arguello and Hilmer Kenty. A later American boxer, nicknamed Baby Dynamite, faced Demetrius Andrade, Thomas Dulorme and Mikael Zewski in the following century.
Career and championship record
The Ecuadorian Herrera’s compiled ledger lists seventeen contests, comprising twelve wins and five defeats. Its first entry is a points victory over Cesar Taco in Guayaquil on May 19, 1967. Subsequent home-country appearances included wins over Waldemiro Pinto, Gilberto Cuesta and Oscar Lencinas, followed by a stoppage defeat against Rigoberto Riasco in August 1972.
His later victories included Isaac Marin, Victor Federico Echegaray and Antonio Amaya in 1975. The following year brought points wins over Roberto Quintanilla in Quito and Miguel Betruz in Guayaquil. Serrano then stopped Herrera at the Plaza de Toros in Guayaquil on January 15, 1977. Arguello defeated him in Masaya that May, and the ledger closes with a knockout loss to Kenty in Detroit in March 1979.
The American Herrera has a separate twenty-one-bout record: nine wins, eleven losses and one draw. Born on September 11, 1981, he made his recorded professional debut against Brandon Harper in Ontario, California, in March 2009. Those dates alone distinguish him from the Ecuadorian whose listed professional activity had ended three decades earlier.
On January 7, 2011, the American fought Andrade at the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas. Boxing Insider’s contemporary report describes an eight-round unanimous-decision victory for Andrade. Two judges scored every round for Andrade, returning cards of 80–72, while the third scored it 79–73. The bout opened ESPN’s Friday Night Fights season.
Later ledger entries record losses to Dulorme in New York in June 2012 and Zewski in Las Vegas in October 2013. Between those appearances, Herrera defeated Levan Ghvamichava by split decision in Inglewood. His final listed contest was a decision loss to Jose Marrufo in Indio in March 2015. These results belong to Baby Dynamite’s record, not to the earlier Ecuadorian career.
Sources
Additional sources: https://boxerlist.com/es/boxer/alberto-herrera/8088
Additional sources: https://www.boxinginsider.com/headlines/andrade-impresses-in-espns-friday-night-fights-2011-season-debut/; https://boxerlist.com/en/boxer/alberto-herrera/362899
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