Vicente Rivas: Boxing Career Highlights
Vicente Rivas was a Venezuelan lightweight whose professional career ran from 1955 to 1967. Records list 51 bouts, with 33 wins, 15 losses, and three draws. BoxRec lists his birthplace as Santa Rosalía, Venezuela, and BoxerList records his fights and results.
Rivas and Flash Elorde
Rivas met Filipino champion Gabriel “Flash” Elorde twice. BoxerList records a points win for Rivas in Caracas on June 15, 1959, followed by a unanimous-decision loss in Manila on December 16, 1960. The video above is titled as their second meeting.
A world-title challenge against Sandro Lopopolo
Rivas fought Sandro Lopopolo twice in 1966. He won their July 8 bout by split decision in Caracas, then challenged Lopopolo for the WBA and WBC light-welterweight titles in Rome on October 21. Lopopolo retained both titles when Rivas’s corner stopped the fight after the seventh round. Rivas’s non-title victory preceded the unsuccessful championship challenge in Rome.
Rivas’s record also includes wins over Carlos Chávez and Leonardo Johnson, a stoppage loss to Ismael Laguna, and a knockout loss to José Luis Vallejo in 1967, his final recorded year in the ring. For more boxing profiles, see MMA USA’s Boxing section.
Selected Recorded Results
- 1967-05-26: Vicente Rivas lost to Jose Luis Vallejo in Caracas.
- 1967-04-01: Vicente Rivas lost to Ismael Laguna in Estadio Juan D. Arosemena, Panama City.
- 1966-10-21: Vicente Rivas lost to Sandro Lopopolo in Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome.
- 1966-07-08: Vicente Rivas won against Sandro Lopopolo in Palacio de Deportes, Caracas.
- 1966-06-18: Vicente Rivas lost to Daniel Guanin in Quito.
- 1966-04-29: Vicente Rivas won against Carlos Chavez in Guayaquil.
- 1965-11-02: Vicente Rivas won against Leonardo Johnson in Palacio de Deportes, Caracas.
- 1965-05-07: Vicente Rivas lost to Lennox Beckles in Port-of-Spain.
Sources
BoxRec; BoxerList; Biographical source; Recorded professional bout history.
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Vicente Rivas, Boxing, Sports History
