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Pascual Pérez

1926 - 1977

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Pascual Nicolás Pérez (May 4, 1926 – January 22, 1977) was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion. Pérez usually did poor at the ticket gates in Argentina after he became world champion, forcing him to defend his world title on the road many times and to become known as a world-traveling champion. His first international success was a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pascual Pérez is the 63rd most popular boxer (down from 58th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 310th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Argentinean Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Pascual Pérez ranks 63 out of 496Before him are Oliver Kirk, Francisco Guilledo, Calistrat Cuțov, Félix Savón, Ernesto Hoost, and Július Torma. After him are Jersey Joe Walcott, Héctor Méndez, James J. Corbett, Julio César Chávez, Joe Bugner, and Buster Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Pascual Pérez ranks 271Before him are Aurèle Nicolet, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Ljubiša Spajić, Robert Ballaman, Heriberto Herrera, and Erich Juskowiak. After him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Lev Dyomin, Genrich Altshuller, Tadeusz Konwicki, Alfreda Markowska, and Giancarlo Bergamini. Among people deceased in 1977, Pascual Pérez ranks 152Before him are Matthew Garber, Ilia Vekua, Diana Hyland, Azucena Villaflor, Alexander Rodimtsev, and Konstantin Fedin. After him are Alice Paul, Hugo Lahtinen, Betty Taylor, Héctor Méndez, Carlos Prío Socarrás, and Otto Deßloch.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Pascual Pérez ranks 289 out of 1,154Before him are Virginia Bolten (1876), Leonardo Favio (1938), Azucena Villaflor (1924), José Ramos Delgado (1935), Santiago Derqui (1809), and Juan Esteban Pedernera (1796). After him are Juan Pablo Sorín (1976), Abel Balbo (1966), Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1922), Héctor Méndez (1897), Norberto Alonso (1953), and Jorge María Mejía (1923).

Among BOXERS In Argentina

Among boxers born in Argentina, Pascual Pérez ranks 3Before him are Carlos Monzón (1942), and Oscar Bonavena (1942). After him are Héctor Méndez (1897), Oscar Casanovas (1914), Carmelo Robledo (1912), Rafael Iglesias (1924), Víctor Avendaño (1907), Amado Azar (1913), Santiago Lovell (1912), Alfredo Porzio (1900), and Abel Laudonio (1938).