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Raul Rojas Jr Obituary, Death – According to his daughter Rebecca, Raul Rojas, a powerful former gang member who transitioned to boxing and became a world featherweight champion, passed away on Sunday at a convalescent home in Los Angeles. Rojas turned to boxing and became a world champion in the featherweight division. Naturally occurring circumstances led to Rojas’s death by suicide. He had reached the age of seventy.

Enrique Higgins, who was from Colombia, was defeated by Rojas in a battle that took place on March 28, 1968, at the renowned Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Rojas earned the World Boxing Association belt by virtue of a decision over Higgins. After suffering a defeat at the hands of Shozo Saijo of Japan, who was defeated by a unanimous decision in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, he gave up the title six months later. the fight took place in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

“Rojas always drew a good crowd and was a popular main-eventer because people knew if you saw him fight, you’d always get your money’s worth,” said Don Fraser, a former fight publicist who is a member of the California Boxing Hall of Fame. Fraser is a man who has been a part of the boxing world for many years. In addition to the other boxers who have been inducted into the hall, Rojas is one of them.

Sugar Ramos and Mando Ramos, both of Cuba, were defeated by Rojas in his final fight, which took place on December 10, 1970 and resulted in a technical knockout loss for Rojas. In his career, Rojas had a record of 38-7-2 with 24 knockouts, and he crammed all of those knockouts into the Olympic competition. This was his last fight, and he was defeated by a technical knockout.

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Update: 2024-05-19