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Total Fights | 73 |
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Wins | 63 |
Losses | 8 |
Draws | 2 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 4 |
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Title Defenses | 4 |
Title-Fight KOs | 4 |
KO Wins | 43 |
KO Losses | 1 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 17 years and one month, Rodrigo Valdez fought 73 times with 63 wins, 8 losses, and 2 draws.
Valdez retired from professional boxing with a record of 63-8-2, which included four middleweight world-title wins and four successful title defense fights. He had a 58.9% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 43 of his total 73 fights being knockout wins, four of which were in title fights. The only knockout loss in Valdez' career was a 6th round TKO loss to Juan Escobar, which was not a world title fight.
His last fight was a 1st round TKO victory over Gilberto Almonte on November 28, 1980.
Some of Valdez' best fights and notable victories include wins over Nessim Max Cohen, Bennie Briscoe, Vinnie Curto, Gratien Tonna, and Ramón Mendez.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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73 | Nov 28, 1980 | 34 | Gilberto Almonte | Win | TKO1 |
72 | May 14, 1980 | 34 | Charles Hayward | Win | TKO7 |
71 | Nov 11, 1978 | 32 | Hugo Corro | Loss * | UD |
70 | Sep 30, 1978 | 32 | Mayfield Pennington | Win | TKO7 |
69 | Apr 22, 1978 | 32 | Hugo Corro | Loss * | UD |
68 | Nov 5, 1977 | 31 | Bennie Briscoe | Win * | UD |
67 | Jul 30, 1977 | 31 | Carlos Monzón | Loss * | UD |
66 | Mar 19, 1977 | 31 | Oreste Lebron | Win | TKO5 |
65 | Oct 24, 1976 | 30 | Ramon Beras | Win | KO7 |
64 | Jun 26, 1976 | 30 | Carlos Monzón | Loss * | UD |
63 | Mar 28, 1976 | 30 | Nessim Max Cohen | Win * | TKO4 |
62 | Aug 16, 1975 | 29 | Rudy Robles | Win * | UD |
61 | May 31, 1975 | 29 | Ramón Mendez | Win * | TKO8 |
60 | Nov 30, 1974 | 28 | Gratien Tonna | Win * | KO11 |
59 | Oct 25, 1974 | 28 | Vinnie Curto | Win | UD |
58 | Sep 7, 1974 | 28 | Cubby Jackson | Win | KO2 |
57 | May 25, 1974 | 28 | Bennie Briscoe | Win * | TKO7 |
56 | Mar 16, 1974 | 28 | Ernie Burns | Win | KO2 |
55 | Dec 14, 1973 | 27 | Joey Durelle | Win | KO2 |
54 | Sep 1, 1973 | 27 | Bennie Briscoe | Win | PTS |
53 | Jul 19, 1973 | 27 | Antonio Aguilar | Win | PTS |
52 | Jun 5, 1973 | 27 | Leon Washington | Win | KO9 |
51 | Apr 16, 1973 | 27 | Kim Booker | Win | TKO5 |
50 | Mar 5, 1973 | 27 | José Rodríguez | Win | TKO5 |
49 | Dec 18, 1972 | 26 | Carlos Marks | Win | PTS |
48 | Sep 29, 1972 | 26 | Lloyd Duncan | Win | UD |
47 | Aug 28, 1972 | 26 | Roy Edmonds | Win | KO2 |
46 | Aug 10, 1972 | 26 | Juan Evangelista Córdoba | Win | KO6 |
45 | Apr 2, 1972 | 26 | Milton Mendez | Win | KO2 |
44 | Nov 25, 1971 | 25 | Doc Holliday | Win | TKO4 |
43 | Oct 19, 1971 | 25 | Perry Abney | Win | TKO1 |
42 | Aug 9, 1971 | 25 | Bobby Cassidy | Win | TKO7 |
41 | Jun 28, 1971 | 25 | Edmundo Leite | Win | TKO4 |
40 | May 14, 1971 | 25 | Marcos Tordoya | Win | TKO4 |
39 | Mar 26, 1971 | 25 | Arturo Lang | Win | KO5 |
38 | Jan 24, 1971 | 24 | Juan Jimenez | Win | KO2 |
37 | Jul 24, 1970 | 24 | Juan Evangelista Córdoba | Win | TKO9 |
36 | May 11, 1970 | 24 | Ralph Palladin | Loss | SD |
35 | May 1, 1970 | 24 | Cassius Greene | Win | PTS |
34 | Mar 2, 1970 | 24 | Pete Toro | Loss | MD |
33 | Feb 14, 1970 | 23 | Dave Oropeza | Win | KO1 |
32 | Dec 10, 1969 | 23 | Denny Stiletto | Win | TKO1 |
31 | Oct 17, 1969 | 23 | Raul Rodríguez | Win | TKO9 |
30 | Sep 17, 1969 | 23 | David Melendez | Win | TKO5 |
29 | Sep 3, 1969 | 23 | Mike DeFeo | Win | TKO1 |
28 | Aug 6, 1969 | 23 | Peter Cobblah | Win | UD |
27 | Jun 4, 1969 | 23 | Linfer Contreras | Win | KO2 |
26 | Feb 16, 1969 | 22 | Daniel Guanin | Loss | PTS |
25 | Aug 6, 1968 | 22 | Humberto Trottman | Win | PTS |
24 | Apr 15, 1968 | 22 | Cartagenita Kid | Win | KO7 |
23 | Jan 21, 1968 | 21 | German Gastelbondo | Draw | PTS |
22 | Dec 3, 1967 | 21 | Richard Morales | Win | KO2 |
21 | Oct 1, 1967 | 21 | Humberto Trottman | Win | PTS |
20 | Aug 29, 1967 | 21 | Alfonso Franco | Win | KO12 |
19 | Aug 12, 1967 | 21 | Baby Mendez | Win | KO3 |
18 | Jun 10, 1967 | 21 | Kid Revolledo | Win | PTS |
17 | Apr 2, 1967 | 21 | Mario Rossito | Draw | PTS |
16 | Mar 5, 1967 | 21 | Eugenio Espinoza | Win | PTS |
15 | Jan 23, 1967 | 20 | Julio Novella | Win | KO2 |
14 | Nov 4, 1966 | 20 | Alfonso Franco | Win | KO7 |
13 | Jul 29, 1966 | 20 | Elias Lian | Win | PTS |
12 | Jun 29, 1966 | 20 | Lucero Acary | Win | KO2 |
11 | Jun 24, 1966 | 20 | Roberto Ulloa | Win | PTS |
10 | Mar 3, 1966 | 20 | Rafael Luna | Win | UD |
9 | Oct 2, 1965 | 19 | Juan Escobar | Loss | TKO6 |
8 | Jul 9, 1965 | 19 | Elias Hidalgo | Win | KO6 |
7 | Sep 12, 1964 | 18 | Manuel Jack Hernandez | Win | PTS |
6 | May 15, 1964 | 18 | Fernando Alvarez | Win | TKO8 |
5 | Feb 28, 1964 | 18 | Alejandro Parra | Win | PTS |
4 | Feb 6, 1964 | 17 | Humberto Hurtado | Win | PTS |
3 | Jan 15, 1964 | 17 | Alejandro Parra | Win | KO5 |
2 | Nov 6, 1963 | 17 | Eliecer de Avila | Win | KO4 |
1 | Oct 25, 1963 | 17 | Orlando Pineda | Win | PTS |
* World-title fight
Rodrigo Valdez (Rocky) was a Colombian professional boxer. He was born in Cartagena, Colombia on February 22, 1946. He was a middleweight world champion. Valdez died on March 15, 2017 at the age of 71 years. His professional boxing career spanned more than 17 years — from 1963 to 1980.
Valdez made his professional boxing debut against Orlando Pineda at the age of 17 on October 25, 1963, defeating Pineda via 4 round PTS. He went on to win 7 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 4 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 28 on May 25, 1974 after 56 professional fights, against Bennie Briscoe for the middleweight WBC (vacant) title. He defeated Briscoe via 7th round TKO to become the middleweight champion of the world.
Rodrigo Valdez was a one-time undisputed middleweight world champion, and won four world titles at middleweight. For all the details about Valdez' world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Valdez had a total of eight losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a non-title bout against Gilberto Almonte at 34 years of age, on November 28, 1980. Valdez won the fight via 1st round TKO.
Valdez had a total of 10 world-title fights, which includes winning four world titles and four successful title defenses. He won six of these fights and lost four.
Rodrigo Valdez fought for middleweight world titles in four fights and won two of these fights, winning one of them via way of stoppage. In total, he won four middleweight belts.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Nov 5, 1977+ | Bennie Briscoe | Middleweight | WBA*, WBC, The Ring | UD |
May 25, 1974 | Bennie Briscoe | Middleweight | WBC* | TKO |
Rodrigo Valdez had six middleweight world-title defense fights. He won four of them and lost two times.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Mar 28, 1976 | Nessim Max Cohen | Middleweight | WBC | TKO |
Aug 16, 1975 | Rudy Robles | Middleweight | WBC | UD |
May 31, 1975 | Ramón Mendez | Middleweight | WBC | TKO |
Nov 30, 1974 | Gratien Tonna | Middleweight | WBC | KO |
Rodrigo Valdez lost two world-title defense fights, and lost a total of four titles in these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Apr 22, 1978 | Hugo Corro | Middleweight | WBA, WBC, The Ring | UD |
Jun 26, 1976 | Carlos Monzón | Middleweight | WBC | UD |
Valdez fought a total of 73 times during his professional career, which includes 10 world-title fights at the middleweight division. These three fights are the highlight of his career.
May 25, 1974: Valdez wins his first world title by defeating Bennie Briscoe via 7th round TKO. He is now the WBC middleweight world champion.
March 28, 1976: Valdez successfully defends the WBC middleweight title against Nessim Max Cohen, winning the fight via 4th round TKO.
November 5, 1977: Valdez becomes the undisputed middleweight world champion by defeating Bennie Briscoe via 15 round unanimous decision. He now holds the WBA , WBC, and The Ring middleweight world-champion belts.
Valdez knocked out 43 of his 73 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 58.9%. Of his total 63 wins, 43 of them were via KO (68.3%).
Valdez' first world-title win was the WBC (vacant) belt at middleweight. He defeated Bennie Briscoe via 7 round TKO to win the title.
Valdez won four world titles at middleweight.
Valdez had a total of six title defense fights. He was successful four times and lost two times.