Bernardo Caraballo, Colombian former boxer.
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Bernardo Caraballo, Colombian former boxer.
The former boxer died in his native Cartagena. He was a national idol!
Find the validation of El Cazamentiras at the end of the news.
Bernardo Caraballo, idol of Colombian boxing and the first fighter in the country to be a challenger for a world title, died in Cartagena. Born in the capital of Bolívar on October 14, 1934, he had a unique life and among his achievements he always highlighted that the coliseum in his city bore his name.
Bad news comes from Cartagena: the death today of Bernardo Caraballo, 80 years old, the first Colombian to dispute a world title (11-27-1964, in Bogotá, against Eder Jofre). He was a man-show, an authentic idol of the country. We can call him ‘The Colombian Ali’. Peace in his grave. pic.twitter.com/YQLn4fyd5d
– Estewil Quesada (@EstewilQ) January 20, 2022
On November 27, 1964, Caraballo marked a milestone for Colombian sport, when he faced the Brazilian Eder Jofre, who held the 118-pound world titles of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the World Boxing Council (WBC) in Bogotá. .
The beginning
I was sitting in a park when I saw a coach go by and I told him that I was going to go professional because the night before he had taken a girl out of me
“I was an embolador and my girlfriend was a record seller in a store. My mother-in-law didn’t love me and I told her I was going to take her daughter. I took her to my mother’s house in the San Pedro neighborhood, my wife (Zunilda Contreras) then told me to at least look for a masonry job and not to mess around anymore. I was sitting in a park when I saw a coach go by and I told him I was going to go professional because the night before he had taken me out a girl and needed money,” Caraballo said about a decade ago on the terrace of his house.
This is how he reflected on what Zunilda represented for his life, the woman he finally married, who was by his side for every fight and brought him out of illiteracy.
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