Ricardo Mayorga

Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez ( born October 3, 1973 in Managua, Nicaragua ) is a former Nicaraguan boxer.

Professional career

The normal boom Mayorga began his professional career in 1993 in the light welterweight in neighboring Costa Rica with a knockout defeat in the first fight. He lost twice more in the construction phase, but showed afterwards good impact strength and in the welter and light middleweight several spectacular knockout victories. The U.S. boxing promoter Don King took him under contract and the WBA made ​​him, without that he had previously beaten a well-known opponent, the mandatory challenger of an undefeated world champion Andrew Lewis, the King had left shortly beforehand.

The battle on July 28, 2001, canceled in the second round after a laceration at Lewis following a head on collision and remained without judgment, so that a rematch was scheduled. Kings calculation went on, Mayorga had on 30 March 2002 had really with his wild style street thugs the recipe to dominate and Lewis in the fifth round technical knockout to defeat.

Then it came on January 25, 2003 meeting with the undefeated WBC world champion Vernon Forrest. Quite surprisingly, Mayorga could also defeat this early and united the WBA and WBC titles. The direct rematch he won on points.

On 13 December 2003 he met in another unification bout with IBF champion Cory Spinks. In the struggle he points were deducted in the fifth and eleventh round. Without having this point deductions a draw would have been possible for him, so he lost the fight on points.

Then he climbed the short term by two weight classes in the middleweight on to compete in a financially lucrative fight against Felix Trinidad on October 2, 2004. However, he lost by technical whacked in the eighth round. Although he was able to achieve a low blow against Trinidad, but had even three times to the ground.

After this brief episode in the middleweight division, he went back to the light welterweight and won the vacant WBC world title on 13 August 2005 by a points victory against Italian Michele Piccirillo, but it lost in the first defense of the title on May 6, 2006, Óscar de la Hoya technical knockout in the sixth round. He got this gig devastating reviews by the press after he was noticed mainly in the run-up in the marketing of the fight by aggressive behavior and insults De la Hoya. The mandatory drug testing him taking the substance Furosemide was detected. This agent serves to accelerate the fluid loss from the body in order to meet the weight limit can.

Then he fought only sporadically and in different weight classes. In November 2007 he defeated in a fight at super middleweight Fernando Vargas over twelve rounds on points. He then lost in September 2008 in the light middleweight against Shane Mosley by a Co in round twelve. His last fight Mayorga played 12 March 2011 against Miguel Cotto. After losing to Cotto by technical knockout in the twelfth round he announced his retirement from boxing.

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