Carlos Salazar: The Legendary Argentine Boxing Champion
Carlos Gabriel Salazar is an Argentine former professional boxer and a two-division world champion. He held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-flyweight title and later won the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight title.
Boxing career and major results
Salazar won his first world title on October 7, 1995, defeating Harold Grey by split decision for the IBF super-flyweight championship. He made one successful defense before Grey won the title back by unanimous decision in April 1996.
Salazar later moved down to flyweight. On December 13, 1996, he stopped Alberto Jiménez in the tenth round to win the WBO flyweight title. He made five successful defenses over the next two years before losing the championship to Rubén Sánchez-León in 1998.
Across a professional career that ran from 1985 to 1998, Salazar compiled a record listed by the Konex Foundation as 47 wins, 8 losses, and 3 draws. He is remembered for winning world titles in two divisions after several earlier world-title challenges.
Sources
Sources: BoxRec: Carlos Gabriel Salazar; BoxRec: IBF Super-Flyweight Champions; BoxRec: WBO Flyweight Title Fights; The Ring: The Best I Faced — Carlos Salazar; Fundación Konex: Carlos Gabriel Salazar.
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
