His wonderful boxing model earned him the nickname ‘La Maravilla’ (The Marvel) and his fists gave Panama its fifth world champion in historical past. At this time, the departure from this earthly world of Enrique Pinder leaves an excellent void within the boxing and sporting area in our nation.
On Saturday evening, June 15, the eve of Father’s Day, the sunshine of Pinder’s life went out on the age of 76. In accordance with household sources, in current months he had been struggling some well being issues associated to coronary heart issues.
Born within the sector of ‘El Marañón’, capital metropolis, Pinder made his debut as an expert boxer on August 20, 1966 when he beat Luis Jacobo by technical knockout within the first spherical of a struggle held on the Juan Demóstenes Arosemena Stadium. He remained undefeated in his first 13 fights earlier than dropping by knockout to Eugenio Hurtado in 1968 in a struggle during which the nationwide bantamweight crown was at stake.
On July 29, 1972, after successful the nationwide title and the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) 118-pound title, Pinder had his first world title shot in opposition to then World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) and WBC world champion Rafael Herrera of Mexico on the Gimnasio Nuevo Panama (now the Roberto Duran Area). After a 15 spherical battle, Herrera was favoured by the three judges and gained a unanimous resolution to turn into the fifth world champion in our nation after Teofilo ‘Panama All’ Brown, Ismael Laguna, Alfonso ‘Pepermin’ Frazer and Roberto Duran.
In November 1972, he made a non-title struggle on the legendary Discussion board in Inglewood, California in opposition to Mexican Chucho Castillo, successful by majority resolution in 10 rounds, and made his solely defence of the WBA belt in opposition to the Aztec Romeo Anaya, who dethroned him after knocking him out in 3 rounds on the Nuevo Panama in January 1973.
Anaya gave Pinder a rematch in August 1973, however the Panamanian was once more knocked out in three rounds. He would make his final struggle in November 1973 in opposition to the Puerto Rican Francisco Villegas in San Juan, Puerto Rico during which he misplaced by unanimous resolution in 10 rounds.
He retired with an expert report of 35 wins (13 by knockouts), 7 losses and a pair of attracts. He fought overseas in international locations reminiscent of america, Mexico, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.
For a very long time he labored on the Jesús Máster Gómez de Barraza Gymnasium.
It’s value mentioning that of the 30 male world champions that our nation has had, ‘Panama All’ Brown, Alfredo ‘Preciso’ Layne, Pedro ‘Rockero’ Alcázar, Eusebio ‘Alacrán’ Pedroza, Jaime ‘Cieguito’ Ríos, Ernesto ‘Ñato’ Marcel, Rigoberto Riasco and Pinder have already left to fulfill the Lord.
