When the spar began, Ricardo outclassed him completely using only his left jab. Ricardo requested to spar against the JBC featherweight champion Ippo Makunouchi at the Otowa gym.
With the match approaching, Ricardo and his trainer and manager, Bill Stewart arrived to Tokyo. He started to be known as an undefeated "Super Champion" and "Living Legend" around the world, remaining in the featherweights and the WBA for more than a decade.Īfter defending his WBA featherweight title 17 times, his 18th title defence was to be against Eiji Date, who he fought before. Marking Alfredo's goal as one and only, to go against Ricardo once again in the future, for the third time, but that never ended up happening. In both of those times, he defeated Alfredo who was otherwise undefeated. Following up a few years later after defeating Date, he faced Alfredo González as he rose in the rankings, twice in his later defences. After some time passed, he started having him as his goal, as he truly understood the champion's reasons better growing up. During and after the match against Date amongst the crowd of young children outside watching, one of them who has been living in the slums of that town really hated him and was very annoyed to how everyone looked up to him. In his homeland of Mexico, he got to be known as a "National Hero" over time. He became a WBA featherweight world champion at the early age of 21, and as time passed he started to be known as the one who takes everything from those who challenge him, he made most who fought him retire, in another way he's the devil.Ī young Ricardo getting ready to fight Date.ĭuring one of his first defences as a champion, he brutally defeated the strong challenger at the time Eiji Date by the second round, which lead him to retire and sought for revenge ever since. From then on, he became a boxer under Bill. At some point, still a child, Ricardo came up to Bill Stewart with boxing gloves and asked him how it feels to be strong. Ricardo asking Bill how it feels to be strong.Īs a child, coming from a lineage of mountain workers, Ricardo spent most of his youth in the mountains of Mexico.
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