Vicente Saldivar
Saldivar after the bout with Raul Rojas in 1965 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname(s) | El Zurdo de Oro (The Golden Southpaw) |
| Born | Vicente Samuel Saldivar García May 3, 1943 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | July 18, 1985 (aged 42) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) |
| Weight | Featherweight |
| Boxing career | |
| Reach | 66+1⁄2 in (169 cm) |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 40 |
| Wins | 37 |
| Win by KO | 26 |
| Losses | 3 |
Vicente Samuel Saldívar García (May 3, 1943 – July 18, 1985) was a Mexican professional boxer who competed between 1961 and 1973. He was a two-time featherweight champion, having held the WBA, WBC, and The Ring titles from 1964 until his retirement in 1967. He came back and once again held the WBC and The Ring titles in 1970. Saldivar has frequently been ranked amongst the greatest in the history of that division by many noted boxing historians and critics. He currently holds the record for the most wins in unified featherweight title bouts and the longest unified featherweight championship reign in boxing history at 8 title bouts and 7 title defenses respectively. Saldívar fought in front of the fourth largest crowd ever, 90,000 in Estadio Azteca, and has also regularly been cited as one of the finest left-handed fighters of all time.