Amado Ursua | |
Realname: | Amado Ursua |
Nickname: | Panterita |
Weight: | Bantamweight Flyweight Minimumweight |
Height: | 1.65 m |
Reach: | 180 cm |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1956 |
Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 55 |
Wins: | 34 |
Ko: | 25 |
Losses: | 21 |
Amado Ursua (born 13 September 1956) is a Mexican former professional boxer and WBC light flyweight champion.
Amado won the Mexican National Light Flyweight title by upsetting veteran German Torres in a twelfth-round unanimous decision.[1]
On February 6, 1982, in Panama City, Ursua won his WBC Light Flyweight title by upsetting a one loss Hilario Zapata by K.O. in the second round.[2] Many had thought Amado did not have a chance against the Panamanian.[3]
He would go on to lose his WBC title in a very controversial fifteen round Majority decision to Tadashi Tomori in Tokyo.[4]