Rolando Navarrete

Rolando Navarrete

Infobox_Boxer
name = Rolando Navarrete
nationality = flagicon|Philippines Filipino
realname = Rolando Navarrete
nickname = Bad Boy from Dadiangas
height = 5 ft. 6 in. (167 cm.)
weight = Super featherweight
birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|2|14|mf=y
birth_place = General Santos City, Philippines
style = Southpaw
total =72
wins = 54 (75%)
KO = 31 (57%)
losses = 15
draws = 3
no contests = 0

Rolando Navarrete is a Filipino ex-boxer who won the WBC Super featherweight title from Cornelius Boza Edwards in Italy in 1981. He later defended it against Choi Chung-Il of Korea, but eventually lost the title to Rafael Bazooka Limon.

On February 14, 2008, Rolando Navarette, "The Bad Boy from Dadiangas" was out of danger, after being stabbed in the neck by Racman Saliling, tenant at the boarding house he owns in Bula, General Santos City, using ice pick. Navarette was also involved in 2 previous attacks: in 2005, he was hit with a steel pipe by a female neighbor; in 2006, a security guard clubbed his leg with a shotgun at a fishport. [ [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=109371 Abs-Cbn Interactive, Filipino ex-boxing world champ hurt in stabbing] ]

References

See also

* List of WBC world champions

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