Osvaldo Guerrero: Boxing Career and Notable Fights
Osvaldo Guerrero-Camargo, known as “Copala,” was a Mexican professional boxer from Guerrero state. BoxRec lists 50 bouts between 1991 and 2004, with 27 wins, 23 losses and 24 knockouts.
World-title challenge in Thailand
Guerrero challenged reigning IBF minimumweight champion Ratanapol Sor Vorapin in December 1995. The title fight ended after five completed rounds when Guerrero’s corner stopped the contest. The record also lists Guerrero’s earlier regional-title activity, including bouts in Mexico’s lower weight divisions.
A long professional record
Guerrero continued boxing after the title challenge and recorded 50 professional bouts between 1991 and 2004.
Regional titles and overseas bouts
Before the world-title challenge, Guerrero stopped Manny Melchor in seven rounds in Mexico City on August 12, 1994, winning the WBC International minimumweight title. His record also includes a first-round stoppage of José Víctor Burgos in Tijuana in July 1993.
Colombia became another important setting for his career. In 1997, he recorded seven victories there, competing in Cartagena and Barranquilla. He later challenged José Sanjuanelo for the IBO light-flyweight title in November 1998, losing by eighth-round stoppage.
Guerrero returned to Mexico City to defeat Edgar Cárdenas over twelve rounds on April 24, 1999, taking the WBC Continental Americas light-flyweight title. The Portland Observer’s archived boxing coverage reported that victory by split decision.
These results distinguish several levels of competition in Guerrero’s career. The regional belts marked successes against other contenders, while the Ratanapol contest offered a separate opportunity for a world championship. His bouts in Mexico, Colombia and Thailand also show how widely a lower-weight boxer could travel in pursuit of those opportunities.
Further career results
His later flyweight opposition included Alejandro Montiel. They met at the Estadio Emilio Ibarra Almada in Los Mochis on March 10, 2000, with the WBC Continental Americas flyweight championship listed at stake. Montiel won by knockout. That contest followed Guerrero’s 1999 light-flyweight title victory and added another regional championship assignment at a higher weight.
Sources
Additional sources: https://boxerlist.com/ru/boxer/alejandro-montiel/1464
- BoxRec: Osvaldo Guerrero record
- Sport & Note: career record
