This Wednesday, the World Boxing Council announced the death of Frankie Randall, American boxer
The American boxer Frankie ‘Surgeon’ Randall, Three times world-wide champion of the superlight ones and recognized internationally by to have removed the unconquered one to him Julio César Chávez in January 1994, he died on December 23, at the age of 59, as confirmed by the President of the World Boxing Council, Mauricio Sulaimán.
Originally from Alabama, Randall faced rivals the size of Edwin ‘Chapo’ Rosary, Julio César Chávez, Juan Martín Coggi, Antonio Margarito, and Marco Antonio Rubio. Chávez and Coggi faced them three times. He was professional from 1983 to 2005, obtaining a professional mark of 58 triumphs, 42 of them by the route of the knockout, in exchange for a tie and 18 defeats. He held the belt of the World Boxing Council and a couple of occasions the World Boxing Association. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Frankie Randall. What shook the world dethroning the undefeated Julio César Chávez“, Sulaiman expressed through his social networks.
That January 29, 1994, at the first boxing event at the legendary MGM Grand Garden Arena at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Randall beat the predictions by realizing the big one Julio César Chávez, Who was undefeated in 90 fights with a balance of one draw and 89 wins. The cards favored him by decision divided the American by 116-111, 114-113 and 113-114.
Not only won to JC Chávez, But he also sent it to the canvas. Julio remembered years later that he shouldn’t have taken the fight because he had very little time to enlist and it was basically just to score weight. He dismissed his rival and paid dearly for the price, beyond which months later he took revenge on July by defeating him in eight episodes.
“This was the saddest day of my life,” the grand champion recalled a few years ago. “I watched people cry, and yet they gave me an incredible welcome, as if I had won, thousands received me crying in Culiacán, went to the sad, they were almost 15 years without losing, 90 unbeaten fights,” he said. added.
Frankie Randall then return to be world champion by surprising the Argentine Juan Martín ‘Fuet’ Coggi, to put on his shoulder the belt AMB, also in 1994, and it was not until two years later that Coggi he took revenge, and in the third, the ‘surgeon’ re-established himself as champion for the last time.