Alfonso Zamora

Alfonso Zamora ( born February 9, 1954 in Mexico City) is a former Mexican boxer.

Amateur

Zamora was very strong impact already as an amateur and won at the Olympic Games in Munich at the age of 18 years, the silver medal in the bantamweight. With a knockout win against Ricardo Fortaleza ( Philippines), a points victory against Stefan Förster ( DDR), a co he moved against the Spaniard Juan Francisco Rodríguez and point win over Ricardo Carrera from the USA to the Finals, where he was defeated by the Cuban Orlando Martínez on points. In this final battle, he was the first time in his career on the ground. It was his only defeat, his record 49-1 (46 x Ko).

Professional

1973 Zamora was 19 - year pro, winning his first twenty fights all by KO before March 14, 1975 South Korean Soo- Hwan Hong in the fight for the WBA world title by KO dethroned in the fourth round.

He defended the title five times successfully Ko, among others in South Korea against Hong and against Eusebio Pedroza ( KO2 ), and also won three non-title fights prematurely before it was accepted on April 23, 1977 general main non-title fight in the lower weight classes of professional boxing, the so-called Battle of the Z Boys, where he met his compatriot Carlos Zárate.

The also unbeaten WBC titlist Zárate, now managed by former coach Arturo Zamora Hernández, 44 of 45 professional fights won prematurely. Since the associations, however, could not agree on a title unification, the Boxers made ​​the struggle just perfect on their own. After Zamora initially had good scenes, he had in the fourth round three times to the ground, whereupon his father threw in the towel and the fight to Zárates favor was canceled.

Zamora never recovered from this defeat, he lost the WBA title in the next fight against Jorge Lujan and never fought again to a championship. After three defeats in the next seven fights, he joined in 1980 with only 26 years from boxing back.