Carlos Zárate Serna

Carlos Zárate (* May 23, 1951 in Tepito, Mexico; actually Carlos Zárate Serna ) is a former Mexican boxer.

Career

Zárate won all 33 fights in the amateurs, 30 by knockout. He became professional in 1970 bantamweight. He defeated his first 23 opponents all by kurzrundige KOs. As he struggled after 39 victories for the WBC bantamweight title, he had only against Victor Ramírez requires the full distance of ten rounds. The fight against the equally hard hitting Mexican champion Rodolfo Martínez ( balance 42-3-1 (34 ) ) on May 8, 1976, he won by knockout in the ninth round.

At the same time was with Alfonso Zamora another unbeaten Mexican champions of the only competitors Association WBA. Zamora had actually won all of his 29 fights prematurely with KOs over Soo -Hwan Hong and Eusebio Pedroza. On April 23, 1977, came to a fight between the two.

Since the contending organizations could not agree, the two reached an understanding Boxer, named by the U.S. press "Z Boys", a nominal non-title fight. Zarate won by TKO in the fourth round.

In 1978 he demanded with a record of 55-0 (54 ) out the WBC champion in the next higher weight class, the half- featherweight champion Wilfredo Gómez, who not only had a similar knockout ratio with 21-0-1 (21 ), but on top of that Puerto Rico came, the traditional rivals Mexico in sports. Zarate even traveled to San Juan for the fight, but lost by knockout.

But he still had his belt bantamweight. But this he lost in 1979 by a decision point, which refers to the Ring Magazine as probably the biggest mistake of the 1970s, to his compatriot Lupe Pintor. He was so disappointed that he hung up the gloves on the nail.

In 1986, he returned to the ring back, but lost the Australian Jeff Fenech in the fight for the WBC featherweight title half, shortly after he lost to Daniel Zaragoza. In 1988, he stopped permanently.

The Ring Magazine chose him in the 1990s at the best Bantamgewichtler ever before Eder Jofre, his compatriot Ruben Olivares, Manuel Ortiz and Panama Al Brown. 1994 Zárate was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.