Real name Rolando Navarrete Height 1.68 m Draws 3 Nationality Filipino Role Boxer Total fights 72 | Name Rolando Navarrete Division Super featherweight Wins 54 Martial art Boxing Losses 15 | |
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Born February 14, 1957 (age 67) General Santos City, Philippines ( 1957-02-14 ) | ||
Nickname(s) Bad Boy from Dadiangas | ||
Rolando navarrete ko11 chung il choi
Rolando Navarrete (born February 14, 1957) is a Filipino ex-boxer who briefly held a junior lightweight (super featherweight) world title in the 80s.
Contents
- Rolando navarrete ko11 chung il choi
- Rafael Bazooka Limon Vs Rolando Navarrete 1 Rds 1 2 3 4 5
- Fighting style
- Professional career
- After professional boxing
- Legacy
- Navarrete documentary
- References
Rafael Bazooka Limon Vs Rolando Navarrete 1 Rds 1 2 3 4 5
Fighting style
A fine boxer, Navarrete had a good talent and was known for his hard-hitting punches. Known to be a slugger and one of the greatest Filipino knockout artists.
Professional career
He first fought for a world title in 1980 against Alexis Argüello but lost by TKO to the legendary champion. On August 29, 1981, he would win the WBC Super featherweight title by knocking out popular fellow southpaw Cornelius Boza Edwards in the 5th round of a title match held in Italy. He later defended the title against unknown Choi Chung-Il of Korea, stopping the gritty challenger in the 11th round of a controversial bout held in Manila in January 1982. In his second title defense four months later in Las Vegas, Nevada, Navarrete took on Rafael "Bazooka" Limón. The champion led on all scorecards before getting knocked out by Limón in the 12th round. Thereafter, Navarrete's career went downhill and he would never again figure in big-money fights. Sometime in the mid-'80s, he was convicted of sexual assault and served three years in a Hawaiian prison.
After his release, Navarrete went back to the Philippines and embarked on several comeback fights. In one of those fights, he would exact revenge on his old tormentor Limón, winning by decision in a 10-round bout. A series of losses against local fighters and unranked contenders forced him to retire for good.
After professional boxing
Navarrete currently lives in General Santos City. A series of failed relationships with different women gave him a total of seven children. One of his sons, Rolando Jr., is following his father's footsteps and training to be a professional boxer as well. Rolando Jr, who fights under his mother's name Rolando Dy is currently a professional mixed martial artist.
Troubles outside the ring left Navarrete with no money and the former world champion now sells fish that, according to him, earn him 800 pesos (about 16 dollars) a day. He still trains nowadays with a heavy bag in his home.
He spent three years in a US prison for rape. Navarrete was also recently involved in various police complaints for wife battery and drugs.
On February 14, 2008, Rolando Navarette, "The Bad Boy from Dadiangas" was pronounced out of danger, after being stabbed in the neck by Racman Saliling, tenant at the boarding house he owns in Bula, General Santos City, using ice pick. Navarette was also involved in two previous attacks: in 2005, he was hit with a steel pipe by a female neighbor; in 2006, a security guard clubbed his leg with a shotgun at a fishport.
Legacy
He is ranked the 9th best superfeatherweight champion in history, by the World Boxing Council.
Navarrete documentary
In 2007, Navarrete was included in "Kamao", an episode of award winning program Sine Totoo, which received the RP's first and only George Foster Peabody Award, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
"Kamao", presented the sports of boxing and featured the story of the former world featherweight champion.