Vargas biography

The boy’s father was a drug addict and did not participate in his upbringing. The child grew up in the most calm atmosphere, often he entered into fights, for which he was once removed from classes at school. At the summer, he began to beg his mother to take him to the boxing room. Under the onslaught of the principal Fernando, the mother agreed that it became a key decision in the life of her child, because an amazing talent lurked in a hot teenager.

The father of the Eduardo family was the head coach, and quickly replaced the boy with both the teacher and his father. In the year, Vargas set a record impressive for amateur ring. He became the youngest American fighter who managed to win the national championship among adults at 16. Then Fernando performed within the framework of lightweight. So the age threshold has been changed, now it begins at the age of 17.

Each time, moving into a new category, I became the best. ” Burgas Amateor Record: a swift flight to the pros immediately after the failure at the Olympics, the boxer decided to prove himself in professionals, but in preparation for a debut battle he broke his right hand. The professional career of Vargas started the year from signing a contract with Main Events. The first victory took only 56 seconds.

A year later, he guarded the experienced Romalis Ellis, who was fighting for the title before the battle. In less than two years have passed since the beginning of his career, as Fernando went to the championship duel. The IBF title in the first middle weight of up to 69.8 kg was owned by the Black Mexican Luis Ramon Camas, but the main thing is that in the ring he spent 60 more battles more.

No one gave a chance to the young California. There were personal scores. Fernando remembered well one of the sparring, which Kamas led in a mocking manner. It's time to repay. Despite the attempts of the opponent to increase the pace, Vargas stopped any intentions of the campas to get closer. With the development of the duel, the rounds became more and more spectacular, only total control from such a young but ruthless applicant remained unchanged.

The champion did not reach the 8th round, in his baggage there was a dissection in the mouth of the mouth, swimming eyes, one won segment of the battle won. But the title was gone. At 21, Fernando Vargas became the youngest champion in the history of the first average division. Kampas at the time of the meeting with Fernando held the round. The temperamental Fernando nicknamed El Feroz or in the American manner of Ferocious fierce, fierce, it is difficult to come up with something more suitable for his masticism.

It was not a mature and skilled boxer-punch with a heavy blow and impressive physical power for years. Vargas attacks the campas in OM, he performed in Andercard the event “Holifield -Lewis”, and then met with the former champion Raul Marquez. Here again there was a place for “bad blood” - on the weighing between the fighters there was a brawl. Markes did not help the lesha stroke, Vargas regularly fed the opponent with the hits on the right and successfully won the positional battle.

This battle will remain in the memory of the fans with the best performance of the Yarrotny, who, with surgical accuracy and equanimity, made a declaration to the next strong and experienced visa. I don’t even know how to describe it, I felt invincible. I easily made weight, the camp was perfect, I never felt better again than before the battle. ” Fun, Quorte and Trinidad, Fernando won the first 17 victories ahead of schedule, he already had the attention of the general public and the army of devoted and reliable fans, which were impressed not only by boxing qualities and courage, but also by hot disposition, and the pride of Vargas.

He easily agreed to the battles that his fans wanted, what else did they want? It was the turn of another ex-champion Ronald Winka Wright. They did not expect much from the Lesser Polyular Wright, and even more so no one could imagine that he would conduct an aggressive battle with Vargas. As a result, the duel turned out to be dense, double -edged and as competitive as possible. Opinions about the winner were divided.

One referee put up a draw, two others - the victory of Vargas. The unofficial judge Harold Lederman found that he defeated Wright. According to the COMPUBOX service, Vargas reported to the target from the blows, and the Wright of Wright Fernando stroke more power. After the battle, Vargas referred to the family problems that set aside in his preparation, but that was not all.

In July, a week after the battle with Marquez, the furious and several of his friends received accusations of theft with a hacking and armed attack. About 5 in the morning they burst into one of the apartments in Santa Barbar and inflicted minor injuries to the summer man there. Vargas said that two attacked him, and he acted within the necessary defense. As evidence, he cited a large scar on his back from a pipe blow.

The trial will last more than a year, it turns out that female attention is involved there, and already in OM Fernando will receive 90 days of house arrest.Fernando and his coach Eduardo Garcia on April 15 of the year Fernando had to accept a new challenge from the popular ex-champion Ayk Quortei, who the day before issued an enchanting performance in the battle with Oscar de la Hoya.

The battle was expected to delight the audience with an intensity and entertainment. Vargas turned out to be more effective and won a confident victory, sending Ganz to retire. At the end of the year, a unifying battle with the formidable Puerto Rican Felix Trinidad took place. No matter how attractive this fight on paper is, in fact, he surpassed his expectations and stunned the audience from the initial seconds.

The first retaliatory left side of Trinidad greatly shocked Vargas.

After a moment, Fernando flies to Canvas, rises, but another fall awaits him. The fierce managed to recover, but in the third segment the Puertor Beat below the belt. Vargas’s angry is fraught. In the fourth, he catches his left opponent on his left, exactly the same blow as Tito caught him at the start of the battle. The Californian rushed to finish, but Trinidad understands that any second is the road, and again hits the groin.

They remove the score from it. Soon, the battle completely accepted the epic scope, almost every blow turned out to be powerful, boxers combined courage and boxing class in an ideal proportion. A spoonful of tar made only the ongoing removal of points for the blows below the required. In the final round, Vargas visited the floor three times, and the referee recorded the Tito Trinidad triumph.

Fernando suffered the first defeat. Was it necessary to wait and hold a duel later? Yes, but I am also a champion, I fought with the best and left myself in the ring. I could die, but he would have died a proud man, not giving up to the last. This is how the champions are done ”“ I still don’t remember that fight after the first knockdown. My wife said that I was on a canvas five times, but I remember only one, ”Vargas said after.

The golden boy and the long -standing enmity of the Yarrotny did not need either a long simple, nor moral or physical recovery after such a heavy massacre. Soon he returned with an early victory over the strong Wilfredo Rivera, although he visited the flooring from the oncoming hit on the right. It was time for the confrontation, which Fernando Vargas longed for more than others - the battle with Oscar de la Hoya, a golden boy and one of the best boxers, regardless of the weight category.

Both had Mexican roots, both were eminent amateurs and both grew near Los Angeles-the second capital of Mexico. Passion between these boxers can also be called Latin: from the side of the Oscar there was hostility, from the fierce Fernando - enmity. It all started nine years earlier, when Vargas slipped on an ice trail in the mountains near Lake Big Bear. I did not know the features of the terrain and fell, and Robert ran ahead and was in the headphones, so I did not notice my fall.

Oscar ran past me, laughed and continued the run. Since then, the meeting with de la Hoya has become a matter of principle. In Om, Vargas eagerly helped Pernell Witker to prepare for the battle with the Oscar, but the Whitacher lucked in a close confrontation. Initially, the fight of Fernando and Oscar was supposed to take place in December, but the parties could not agree on the conditions.

It turned out to approve the details on May, but Oscar damaged his hand. Another transfer, this time the last. The fighters “shook hands” before the battle only thanks to the referee. In the first round, Vargas was close to sending a golden boy to the flooring, the same was repeated in the third, but de la Hoya managed to survive furious attacks with an accent on the left side.

Oscar began to control the distance and work competently on floors. During a tense battle, the blood of both boxers spilled. In 11 segment, Oscar applied a powerful left side, sending an opponent to a knockdown. When finishing the referee, he was forced to intervene. The boxer received a disqualification for 9 months and paid a fine, saying that the forbidden drugs were given to him without his knowledge.

During the battle with Tony Marshal in the year, Fernando will damage the spinal disk and decide to ignore the recommendations of doctors about the necessary operation. As a result, one and a half -year -old simple. Fernando Vargas: Career sunset and heritage in OM Yarrotny confidently overwhelmed the former champion of Havier Castilehoro, returning the attention of the public.

This led to a meeting with another star in California - the cervical cerebral. After the battle with Mozli, in the course of a sharp and dense fight in oncoming courses, Bargas systematically fell on the right, leaving a substantial hematoma around the opponent’s eyes, which continued to increase. In the middle of the tenth round of the referee, Joe Cortes noticed that another head was growing on Vargas’s head, and stopped the battle.

Fernando considered Mozlie Marsley and claimed that his head blows were to blame.