Félix Trinidad
Félix Trinidad, Jr. ( born January 10, 1973 in Cupey Alto, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican boxer.
Professional career
Trinidad was seventeen years old in March 1990, professional and punched initially partly in the light welterweight, but mainly in the welterweight division. He signed with promoter Don King, his father was manager and coach.
In the build phase of his professional career, he was able to defeat the later IBF titlist in the welterweight Jake Rodriguez on points and beat half Welter world title challenger Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes KO. In the latter battle he was however the first time on the ground, relatively frequent as in his career.
On 19 June 1993 he won the IBF welterweight title against Maurice Blocker with a spectacular knockout in the second round. He defended the title several times by knockout, but had to Anthony Stephens to the ground again. His explosive style made him but quickly became known, even if the opponents were not valued highly in independent rankings.
In 1994, he defeated Hector Camacho, who after drug problems do not, however, took well prepared and had also previously clearly lost a title fight against Julio Cesar Chavez in the light welterweight. Trinidad beat him hands down, but could not knock him out. His next opponent, Oba Carr and Yori Boy Campas, were at the time of each fight unbeaten top 10 boxers (in all leading newspapers such as the Ring Magazine ). He was able to defeat both early, but had to play both back to the ground.
In February 1999, he pushed against one of the best boxers of the 1990s, Pernell Whitaker. However, Whitaker had cocaine and alcohol problems is a long pause behind and was beaten by Trinidad clear on points.
Then it came on 18 September 1999 to the lucrative unification fight against the most famous non- heavyweight boxers of the United States, the WBC titleholder Oscar de la Hoya. After a slow struggle over twelve rounds Trinidad was declared the winner on points disputed. He benefited from the misjudgment de la Hoya, who was only tried in the faith of a safe projection points in the last round, to compensate themselves. Thus he gave away through inactivity this fight ultimately decisive round of Trinidad and thereby missed a possible 2-1 victory in his favor.
In 2000, he got into the light middleweight on and beat the undefeated WBA titlist David Reid, the third point win against an Olympic champion after De la Hoya and Whitaker. In December 2002, he won early against the undefeated Fernando Vargas and united with it his WBA with Vargas ' IBF light middleweight title. In both fights he was on the ground.
In 2001 he moved into the middleweight and defeated the WBA titlist William Joppy KO. During another unification fight against Bernard Hopkins but he was on 29 September 2001 then a chance and lost by technical knockout in the twelfth round. It was his first loss as a professional.
2004 he had a successful comeback with a win over Ricardo Mayorga, but was downright presented in October by southpaw Winky Wright and then finished his career after his father did not want him to train.
On 19 January 2008 he returned, after more than 2.5 years of inactivity, for a duel at New York's Madison Square Garden against Roy Jones Jr. returns to the ring. He lost the fight against the 39 -year-old Jones over twelve rounds on points and had twice in this fight to the ground.