![]() Later on, Rosario fought a rematch with Randall when both were past their primes, and Randall stopped him in a war, which earned Randall his title winning fight with Chavez. lightweight and stormed through his punches to batter him into an 11th round stoppage. In between, he also suffered a devastating defeat when JC Chavez stepped up from jr. Other career highlights include another shocking KO of Loreto Garza to become a two-division champion a close, exciting win over a young, unbeaten prospect named Frankie Randall and also a very close, hotly disputed decision loss to a peak Hector Camacho, in which he'd had Camacho badly hurt and on the retreat for much of the fight. His biggest career win was a shocking upset KO of Livingstone Bramble, who was very highly regarded at the time. Even though he would go on to score some of his biggest wins/achievements in the years to come, this loss would always seem to mar his reputation, as it raised a lot of questions about his chin and resilience. The loss to Ramirez was something of a landmark fight for Rosario. IMO this fight may be the best "short" fight in history, perhaps even better than Hagler-Hearns. Rosario started fast and let the bombs go, and dropped Ramirez a couple of times, but Ramirez rallied back in the 3rd and 4th rounds and stopped an exhausted Rosario on his feet. ![]() Funny enough, this fight essentially followed the same pattern of their first fight, but condensed into four rounds. Rosario was in yet another classic fight in a rematch with Ramirez. He had a very memorable title defense against Howard Davis, in which Davis outboxed and shut him down for much of the fight, but Rosario rallied furiously in the last round, and dropped Davis with just a few seconds left to pull out a one-point decision (Davis appeared to have the edge in the round until being dropped). Jose Luis Ramirez, which he was expected to win, but instead barely won on a razor thin, controversial decision, after he faded down the stretch. That earned him a fight for the vacant lightweight title vs. To that I'd add, he had very good all around speed and skill, but tended to use his skills more to set up the KO rather than box to the distance - which may have been to his detriment at times.Īs far as his career goes, he became hot **** early in his career after scoring a string of eye-catching KOs, including one over the "unknockoutable" Edwin Viruet. The Gomez comparison sums up his style/form pretty well. 2:00 ref: Tony Orlando Nicasio Lorenzo Drake 47-48 Rogelio Perez 47-49 Luis J Rodriguez 47-48.
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