Raul Juarez: The Resilient Mexican Boxing Champion
Raúl Juárez is a Mexican former professional flyweight from Mexico City. In 1996, he challenged Yuri Arbachakov for the WBC flyweight title in Osaka and Mark Johnson for the IBF flyweight title in California. He lost both championship bouts.
Boxing career and major results
Arbachakov retained the WBC belt with a unanimous decision on February 5, 1996. Six months later, Johnson stopped Juárez in the eighth round to retain the IBF title. The two fights put Juárez into world-title contention at flyweight, although neither resulted in a championship win.
Juárez met Johnson again in November 1999, this time in an IBF super-flyweight title bout. The fight was ruled a no contest in the fourth round after Johnson landed a low blow and Juárez could not continue. That outcome differed from his earlier knockout loss to Johnson.
Juárez returned to the ring after the no contest and continued to box into the 2000s. A record database lists a third-round stoppage loss to Jesús Chong in September 1999 and a later defeat to Katsushige Kawashima in a WBC super-flyweight title challenge in 2004.
Sources
Sources: BoxRec WBC flyweight and IBF flyweight title-fight records; Washington Post and Los Angeles Times reports on the Mark Johnson bouts; WBC super-flyweight title records.
Career records and reporting: boxrec.com.
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
