BOXER

Francisco Cabañas

1912 - 2002

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Francisco Cabañas Pardo (22 January 1912 – 26 January 2002) was a Mexican boxer. He competed in the flyweight class during the 1932 Summer Olympics and, although he lost the final against Hungarian István Énekes, he became the first Mexican athlete to ever win an individual Olympic medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Cabañas is the 93rd most popular boxer (up from 154th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 360th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Francisco Cabañas ranks 93 out of 496Before him are Fernando Atzori, Gene Tunney, Carmelo Bossi, Herbert Runge, Tibor Csík, and Vladimir Yengibaryan. After him are Alexis Argüello, Andrew Golota, Paul Fritsch, Amado Azar, Oscar De La Hoya, and Ulderico Sergo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Francisco Cabañas ranks 264Before him are Paul Meurisse, Louis Paul Boon, Léon Damas, Georges Beaucourt, Ted Drake, and Iuliu Bodola. After him are Tadashi Imai, Maguba Syrtlanova, Mary McCarthy, Miklós Szabados, Willibald Schmaus, and Nelly Diener. Among people deceased in 2002, Francisco Cabañas ranks 213Before him are Indra Devi, Bill Bruce, Georges Beaucourt, Kaisa Parviainen, Raymond Firth, and Oskar Sala. After him are Leopold Vietoris, Nils Bohlin, Richard Helms, Ruth Williams Khama, Eddie Meduza, and Milton Berle.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Francisco Cabañas ranks 229 out of 729Before him are Kate del Castillo (1972), Alfredo Hernández (1935), Lola Beltrán (1932), Andrés Quintana Roo (1787), Laura Zapata (1956), and Jesús Castro (1908). After him are Alberto Del Rio (1977), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), Mariano Paredes (1797), Valentín Canalizo (1794), Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834), and José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776).

Among BOXERS In Mexico

Among boxers born in Mexico, Francisco Cabañas ranks 3Before him are Julio César Chávez (1962), and Canelo Álvarez (1990). After him are Antonio Roldán (1946), Salvador Sánchez (1959), Alfonso Zamora (1954), Juan Manuel Márquez (1973), Fidel Ortiz (1908), Marco Antonio Barrera (1974), Érik Morales (1976), Misael Rodríguez (1994), and Óscar Valdez (1990).