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Wilfred "Wilfredo" Benítez (born September 12, 1958) is an American-born Puerto Rican former professional boxer and the youngest world champion in the sport's history.
Wilfred Benitez is a former WBC world super welterweight champion from Puerto Rico. He fought 62 bouts from 1973 to 1990, with 40 wins, 8 losses and 4 draws.
Wilfred Benitez was a boxing prodigy. He was an outstanding counter-puncher and a great defensive fighter, which earned him the nickname "El Radar." Benitez defeated Antonio Cervantes by a fifteen-round decision to win the WBA Junior Welterweight Championship on March 6, 1976.
Benitez, the youngest world champion ever, defended his WBC junior middleweight title against Duran, the former welterweight king, in a thrilling 15-round battle. Read how the Puerto Rican prodigy outboxed and outpointed the Panamanian legend in Las Vegas.
Jun 29, 2022 · Calling himself "The Dragon", Benitez was the youngest world champion in boxing history and the first Latin to win championships in three different weight classes. A look back at the life and ...
Jan 10, 2021 · At seventeen, Wilfred Benitez was a world champion. At twenty-eight, he was effectively finished as a fighter. By the time he was thirty-eight, his life was a whole lot different. Too many fights, and too many punches absorbed. The glory days long gone, and his fortune was also a thing of the past.
A profile of the former boxing champion, who is now a dementia patient in a wheelchair, cared for by his sister in Chicago. The article traces his rise and fall in the ring, his struggles with neurological damage, and his current life in Humboldt Park.
