Ivonne Class is a Puerto Rican theater producer. She is also a former boxing promoter and sportscaster. After the 2021 death of actress
Myraida Chaves, Class is the director of the
Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas in
the central Puerto Rican city of Caguas.
Biography
By the 1980s, the young Class was well known to fans of
boxing in Puerto Rico as a promoter and broadcaster. She was the first woman to be licensed as a promoter in the country. In 1985, she worked alongside Puerto Rican boxing legend
Wilfredo Gomez Wilfredo is a given name which may refer to:
*Wilfredo Alicdan (born 1965), Filipino figurative artist
*Wilfredo Alvarado (born 1970), Venezuelan football defender
*Willy Caballero (born 1981), Argentine football goalkeeper
* Wilfredo Caraballo (bo ...
in the coverage, from
Rimini, Italy
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, for
WAPA-TV
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, of a boxing fight, the rematch between
Victor Callejas
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Early history
Callejas compiled a record of 36 wins and 4 defeats as an amateur boxer, and in 1979, he deci ...
and
Loris Stecca
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Professional career
Stecca held the WBA super ...
, a fight won by Callejas by a sixth-round technical knockout to retain his
World Boxing Association
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's world Super-Bantamweight title.
By 1986, she had moved on to
WAPA's rival, Channel 11, where she started to promote fights with her "Video-Deportes" promotional company and broadcast them herself along with the legendary Cuban sportscaster
Felo Ramirez. Class and Ramirez broadcast boxing fights on that channel for many years.
Later on, Class dedicated herself to producing musical concerts in Puerto Rico. One such instance was during 2010, when she organized a
Chucho Avellanet
Chucho Avellanet, nicknamed "Chucho", is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor of Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
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and
Lissette Álvarez
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concert in Puerto Rico; it ended with controversy, allegedly because
Puerto Rico TV, also known in the island as Canal 6, according to Class, had recorded a portion of the concert and asked Class to pay them $20,000
dollars
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for the portion they had recorded.
Class' concert promoting company is named San Juan Family Group.
During 2021, after her countrywoman, actress and show host Myraida Chaves, was diagnosed with Cancer, Class was named interim director of the Centro de Bellas Artes in Caguas. After Chaves died of the disease, Class inherited the directorship of the center as she officially became the full director of it.
Class then became involved in bringing different acts such as theatrical plays to the center.
Personal life
Class was married to Puerto Rican actress
Marisol Calero
Marisol Calero (born 13 September 1963) is a Puerto Rican actress and singer.
Early years
Calero was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 13 September 1963. As a child, Calero participated in school performances at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro a ...
. Calero suffered a stroke during 2020,
During 2021, the couple divorced.
Class identifies herself as a Christian.
See also
*
List of Puerto Ricans
*
Dommys Delgado Berty
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Caguas, Puerto Rico
20th-century Puerto Rican LGBT people
21st-century Puerto Rican LGBT people
Boxing promoters
Boxing commentators
Puerto Rican record producers
Puerto Rican people of Irish descent
Living people