Omar Alonso Chávez Carrasco (born January 4, 1990) is a Mexican
professional boxer and the one time
WBC Youth Intercontinental welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...
champion. He is the son of former
three-division world champion of boxing,
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez González (; born July 12, 1962), also known as Julio César Chávez Sr., is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 2005. A multiple-time world champion in three weight divisions, Chávez was liste ...
.
Personal life
Omar was born in the city of
Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He is the son of legendary boxing champion
Julio César Chávez
Julio César Chávez González (; born July 12, 1962), also known as Julio César Chávez Sr., is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 2005. A multiple-time world champion in three weight divisions, Chávez was liste ...
and his then-wife Amalia Carrasco, and brother of former
middleweight
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing Professional
In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to .
Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have be ...
champion
Julio César Chávez, Jr. Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to:
*Julio (given name)
*Julio (surname)
*Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation albu ...
Omar's face became known to boxing fans when his father would take him and his older brother,
Julio Jr. into the ring as children, before each of Chávez Sr.'s fights.
Professional career
On December 16, 2006 when Chávez was 16 years old he began his professional career, beating fellow debutant Jesús García with a first round
knockout
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...
on the undercard which included his brother Julio in their native
Culiacán. He won his next five straight fights in just over a year, four of them by knockout. Omar is signed with
Bob Arum's
Top Rank.
On July 18, 2009, Chávez, for the second time would face
Marco Antonio Nazareth
Marco Antonio Nazareth (12 April 1986 – 22 July 2009) was a Mexican professional boxer.
Professional career
Nazareth began his professional career in 2005, and until 2009 he racked up a record of four wins and three losses in seven bouts.
...
, who had won four and lost three coming into their bout. In the fourth round Nazareth had received many heavy blows and the referee decided to stop the fight. As Nazareth sat on his stool he collapsed.
He was rushed to the local hospital where he underwent a three-hour operation to treat a
cerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...
, but he died four days later.
Omar has started to improve on his punching power and proved it with a 1st round K.O. of Eugenio Lopez. In September 2011, Chávez beat Alberto Martínez to win the
WBC Youth Intercontinental Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...
Championship.
On December 12, 2011, Omar Chavez faced Jorge Paez Jr, son of Jorge "Maromero" Paez. Although Chavez was looking for the knockout, Paez Jr. was more the boxer and manage to beat Chavez with a unanimous 10-round decision.
Professional boxing record
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, Loss, , 36-6-1 , , align=left,
Ramón Álvarez
, UD , , 8 (8) , , 2021-06-19 , , align=left,
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, Loss, , 36-5-1 , , align=left, Jose Carlos Paz
, UD , , 10 (10) , , 2018-05-19 , , align=left,
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, Loss, , 36-4-1 , , align=left,
Roberto Garcia
, UD , , 10 (10) , , 2017-08-12 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 36-3-1 , , align=left,
Ramón Álvarez
, TKO , , 2 (10) , , 2017-04-29 , , align=left,
, align=left,
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, Win, , 35-3-1 , , align=left, César Chávez
, KO , , 1 (8) , , 2016-12-10 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 34-3-1 , , align=left, Hector Muñoz
, MD , , 10 (10) , , 2015-06-26 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 33-3-1 , , align=left, Richard Gutierrez
, UD , , 8 (8) , , 2015-04-18 , , align=left,
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, Loss, , 32-3-1 , , align=left,
Ramón Álvarez
, UD , , 10 (10) , , 2014-09-27 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 32-2-1 , , align=left,
Joachim Alcine
Joachim Alcine (born March 26, 1976) is a Haitian-Canadian professional boxer fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, where he now resides. He is a former WBA light middleweight champion.
Professional career
Alcine defeated Jose Hilton Dos Santos on ...
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, Win, , 31-2-1 , , align=left,
Daniel Sandoval
, UD , , 10 (10) , , 2014-05-03 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 30-2-1 , , align=left, Charlie Navarro
, UD , , 10 (10) , , 2013-07-06 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 29-2-1 , , align=left, Pablo Vasquez
, TKO , , 2 (10) , , 2013-03-23 , , align=left,
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, Loss, , 28-2-1 , , align=left,
Jorge Páez, Jr.
, UD , , 10 (10) , , July 21, 2012 , , align=left,
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, Win, , 28-1-1 , , align=left, Emilio Julio Julio
, RTD , , 9 (10) , , March 22, 2012 , , align=left,
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, Loss, , 27-1-1 , , align=left,
Jorge Páez, Jr.
, MD , , 10 (10) , , December 17, 2011 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 27-0-1 , , align=left, Alberto Martínez
, TKO , , 1 (2:51) , , September 9, 2011 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 26-0-1 , , align=left, Genaro Trazancos
, TKO , , 4 (0:52) , , May 28, 2011 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 25-0-1 , , align=left, Ignasi Caballero
, KO , , 2 (1:34) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 24-0-1 , , align=left, Rodrigo Juárez
, KO , , 4 (2:47) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 23-0-1 , , align=left, Miguel Galindo
, KO , , 2 (1:09) , , July 24, 2010 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 22-0-1 , , align=left, Rodrigo Juárez
, SD , , 8 (8) , , May 5, 2010 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 21-0-1 , , align=left, José Arelis López
, UD , , 6 (6) , , March 3, 2010 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 20-0-1 , , align=left, Eugenio López
, KO , , 1 (1:44) , , February 20, 2010 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 19-0-1 , , align=left, Carlos Urrea
, TKO , , 2 (2:39) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 18-0-1 , , align=left, James Ventry
, UD , , 6 (6) , , October 10, 2009 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 17-0-1 , , align=left,
Marco Nazareth
, TKO , , 4 (2:59) , , July 18, 2009 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 16-0-1 , , align=left, Patrick Cape
, TKO , , 2 (2:19) , , June 20, 2009 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 15-0-1 , , align=left, Tyler Ziolkowski
, KO , , 2 (1:48) , , May 2, 2009 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 14-0-1 , , align=left, Rodolfo Armenta
, MD , , 4 (4) , , February 6, 2009 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 13-0-1 , , align=left, Brian Carden
, TKO , , 1 (1:50) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 12-0-1 , , align=left, Miguel Hernández
, UD , , 4 (4) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 11-0-1 , , align=left, Jeremy Marts
, KO , , 1 (2:44) , , August 2, 2008 , , align=left,
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, style="background: #B0C4DE", Draw , , 10-0-1 , , align=left, Miguel Hernández
, MD , , 4 (4) , , June 21, 2008 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 10-0-0 , , align=left, Juan Castíllo
, KO , , 1 (2:59) , , May 17, 2008 , , align=left,
, align=left,
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, Win , , 9-0-0 , , align=left,
Marco Nazareth
, UD , , 4 (4) , , April 26, 2008 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 8-0-0 , , align=left, Antonio Valencia
, TKO , , 3 (2:40) , , March 29, 2008 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 7-0-0 , , align=left, Iván García
, TKO , , 2 (1:32) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 6-0-0 , , align=left, Miguel Camacho
, MD , , 4 (4) , , February 9, 2008 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 5-0-0 , , align=left, Miguel Hernández
, TKO , , 1 (1:27) , , , , align=left,
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, Win , , 4-0-0 , , align=left, Enrique Fernández
, KO , , 1 (0:29) , , May 19, 2007 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 3-0-0 , , align=left, Jesús Hernández
, KO , , 3 (1:55) , , April 28, 2007 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 2-0-0 , , align=left, Óscar Sánchez
, TKO , , 1 (2:49) , , March 31, 2007 , , align=left,
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, Win , , 1-0-0 , , align=left, Jesús García
, KO , , 1 (2:00) , , , , align=left,
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See also
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Notable boxing families
References
External links
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Boxers from Sinaloa
Sportspeople from Culiacán
Light-welterweight boxers
Welterweight boxers
1990 births
Living people
Mexican male boxers