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5 unusual facts about Sixto Escobar


Estadio Sixto Escobar

In April 1938, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico voted to name the stadium and surrounding park in honor of Sixto Escobar, a Puerto Rican professional boxer who became Puerto Rico's first world champion.

Panama Al Brown

They had a rematch on March 4, 1938, with Brown avenging his earlier loss with a fifteen round decision, but by then, Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico had already taken the world Bantamweight championship.

Pete Sanstol

The culmination of this chapter of his career was a title match with Sixto Escobar, which Sanstol lost.

Sixto Escobar

On February 16, 1927, governor Horace Mann Towner legalized boxing and allowed the establishment of organized boxing matches.

Weeks before his death, Escobar participated in his last ceremony, where Diego Suárez, president of V. Suárez & Company.



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