- Hugo Corro
Infobox Boxer
name=Hugo Corro
realname=Hugo Pastor Corro
nickname=
weight=Middleweight
birth_place=San Carlos Mendoza
style=Orthodox
nationality=flagicon|ArgentinaArgentine
birth_date=Birth date|1953|11|11
death_date= Death date and age|2007|6|15|1953|11|11
death_place=Mendoza
total=59
wins=50
KO=26
losses=7
draws=2
no contests=0|Hugo Pastor Corro (
November 5 ,1953 –June 15 ,2007 , born in San Carlos, Mendoza), better known plainly as Hugo Corro, was a former boxer fromArgentina who was worldMiddleweight champion.Corro beat
Rodrigo Valdez for the world Middleweight title, and he would beat Valdez in a rematch. Valdez had succeededCarlos Monzon as world champion. Since Monzon had beaten Valdez twice also during his period as champion, the comparisons between Corro and Monzon became inevitable. The fact that Corro went toEurope to defend his title was another common trait he shared with Monzon. Corro's championship reign would ultimately prove to be inferior to Monzon's however, as Corro defended his title successfully only twice, and Monzon retained the crown for a then record of fourteen times.Professional career
Hugo Corro began fighting as a professional on
August 30 ,1973 , with a sixth roundknockout victory againstGustavo Dieff in the Argentine city ofTunuyan . His first ten bouts as a professional were held in Tunuyan. He had a draw (tie) againstPedro Pablo Bazan during his second fight, held onSeptember 15 , 16 days after his debut.Corro reeled off three consecutive knockout wins, then faced Bazan in a rematch, on
December 7 . On his last fight of 1973, Corro was declared winner when Bazan was disqualified in the fourth round.Corro won one more fight, and then, he fought ten rounds for the first time in his career, when he defeated
Ramon Roberts by a ten round decision onFebruary 6 ,1974 . After another victory, he foughtJuan Carlos Artaza onJuly 17 . From a status standpoint, the fight had little significance, since Artaza only had two previous bouts, and he had lost both of them. But this was Corro's first fight outside Tunuyan. He beat Artaza by a ten round decision in San Juan.After one more win, he faced
Hugo Saavedra , then a well established Middleweight contender, onNovember 11 . Saavedra gave Corro his first defeat, when he knocked out the future champion in the eighth round.Corro rebounded with a sixth round knockout win over
Hugo Obregon onMarch 7 ,1975 . That marked the beginning of a thirteen fight winning streak, which included a rematch with Roberts, knocked out in six onJuly 4 , two more fights with Obregon, both of which ended with Corro winning ten round decisions, a victory by decision in ten againstNorberto Cabrera , and two more fights against Saavedra.His first rematch with Saavedra, on
September 27 , marked Corro'sBuenos Aires debut. Corro was able to avenge his first defeat when he outpointed Saavedra over ten rounds. Their third bout, held onMarch 5 1976 at Córdoba, ended when Saavedra was disqualified in the tenth round.After a win against
Roque Roldan , Corro met Norberto Cabrera for a second time. OnMay 21 , he lost to Cabrera by a ten round decision, in Buenos Aires. Corro, however, once again bounced back well, winning his next seven fights by knockout, including a rematch with Juan Carlos Artaza, who was beaten in round ten onSeptember 10 .On
December 10 , he got his first shot at a title, when he foughtJulio Medina for the vacant Argentine Middleweight title. Corro won the national championship by knocking Medina out in round three of a fight that was scheduled for twelve rounds.After two victories over
Rodolfo Rosales , Corro had his first fight abroad, boxing againstMarcelo Quinones onMay 9 ,1977 , for theSouth America n Middleweight title, inLima, Peru . He conquered the continental championship by decisioning Quinones over twelve rounds. The win also earned him a spot among the world's top ten Middleweight challengers for the first time.Corro followed that win with seven more victories, including title defenses of both his Argentine and his South American Middleweight titles, before he got his first opportunity at becoming world champion: on
April 22 ,1978 , Corro became the undisputed world Middleweight champion by beating Valdez by a fifteen round decision inItaly .His first world title defense came against
Ronnie Harris , onAugust 5 , back in Argentina. He outpointed Harris over fifteen rounds, and then, onNovember 11 , he retained the title in his rematch with Valdez, by a fifteen round decision at Buenos Aires.He traveled to
Monte Carlo , where Monzon defended his title a few times, to faceVito Antuofermo for his third world title defense. Corro lost the title onJune 30 of 1979 in a fight that was actually held atMonaco 's royal palace. Corro in reality lost his title by only one point, as Antuofermo beat him by a split decision, and each judge had a one point difference on their scorecard (scores of 146-145, 145-146 and 142-143). Asked about the fight during the press conference that proceeded it, Corro answered "I only had one problem, his head". By saying this, he meant that he felt Antuofermo butted him many times during the contest.After winning one more fight and losing another one, Corro decided to retire for the first time in 1981. Inspired by the relative success of his much younger brother Osvaldo, a contender during the late 1980s, however, Hugo attempted a comeback during 1988. He made some headlines after winning his first two bouts, but he lost three of his next four bouts, with one draw. On
September 16 of '88 he lost to another famous Argentine boxer,Juan Roldan , by knockout in round one. After losing by knockout in four rounds toHugo Antonio Corti onFebruary 17 of 1989, Corro retired from boxing for good.Corro had one fight in
Chile . He never boxed in theUnited States as a professional.Corro had a record of 50 wins, 7 losses and 2 draws as a professional boxer, with 29 wins by way of knockout. On
June 15 ,2007 , he died of undisclosed causes.External links
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