As you know, professional athletes try to give all the best in training and lead a healthy lifestyle, stubbornly striving for the top. The world of boxing is no exception. In this martial art, fighters go through grueling training camps, comforting themselves with the hope that someday they will become champions. To do this, they have to give up many pleasures and bad habits. But all these rules have nothing to do with a boxer named Mayorga Ricardo, as he never hid his addiction to cigarettes from the public. Nevertheless, smoking did not prevent him from becoming a world champion.
Nicaraguan
Mayorga Ricardo was born on October 3, 1973 in Managua. Already at school age he showed excellent results in sports training and, on the advice of a school teacher, began to engage in boxing. All this allowed him to subsequently overcome many everyday difficulties and without any problems pass military service in his homeland. By the way, as an amateur boxer, he played for the army team.
Career start
Mayorga Ricardo's first professional fight was on August 29, 1993. The fight was held in Costa Rica. A respected local athlete named Umberto Aranda was chosen as the “victim”. Nothing foreshadowed the trouble for the Nicaraguan, but he decided that he could immediately go the distance of 10 rounds. Unfortunately, the young fighter did not take into account that his work on the night shift would greatly affect his preparation. Although Mayorga was able to survive five rounds, still in the sixth battle was stopped, because the Costa Rican literally mocked him. The result - a defeat of Ricardo by technical knockout. After this fiasco, our hero did not enter the ring until 1994.
Return
After hard training for several months, Mayorga Ricardo arrives in Costa Rica again and holds the three fights he wins. This state of affairs allows him to return to his native land and hold a title fight for the title of champion of the country. Confronted him Miguel Angel Perez. The fight ended with a Ricardo victory by knockout in the 6th round, and he received the nickname Matador for an aggressive, assertive, provocative, provocative manner of fighting.
This triumph entailed three more victories in a row, but later the athlete had to leave boxing for a while. However, already in 1998, he began to speak again, not because of a great desire to box, but to solve his material problems. Until 2000, he was on the rise, defeating one opponent after another.
On the top
Having fallen under the tutelage of the famous American promoter Don King, Matador began to participate in battles with famous opponents and as a result, on July 28, 2001, fought with Andrew Lewis. At that time, the Guyanese was a champion, but was not considered an undeniable authority. The first fight was declared invalid due to the clash of athletes heads in the second round. Then it was decided to hold an immediate rematch. And on March 30, 2002, Mayorga knocked out an opponent in the fifth round, thereby winning the WBA title.
Career continuation
January 25, 2003 the world saw in all its glory a diverse boxing. Ricardo Mayorga went out to fight with the then-current WBC champion Vernon Forrest. A technical and flexible American was considered an unconditional favorite. But to the great surprise of the public, Matador knocked out the Viper in the third round and took two belts for himself, becoming the main boxer in the division. But even more striking was the result of the rematch, in which the Nicaraguan was again a triumph.
Loss of belts
Ricardo Mayorga, whose fights have always attracted the public with his spectacle, in December 2003 was again near the pedestal. Cory Spinks - IBF champion became his offender. The fight lasted the entire distance allotted, and as a result the American turned out to be stronger on points, who competently outplayed the Nicaraguan in the classroom.
But the most offensive for Ricardo was a defeat at the hands of the legendary Felix Trinidad. It happened in October 2004. A Puerto Rican knocked down in round 3, for which he simply bombed his opponent as a result, and in round 8 after several multi-hit combinations he made the referee stop the fight.
To date, the last Mayorgi fight is dated August 29, 2015. That day, Matador fought with Shane Mosley and lost to him by knockout in the sixth round.
The athlete continues to train hard and promises to hold new spectacular fights.