Salvador Sánchez

✶January 26, 1959

†August 12, 1982

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About their life

Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican professional boxer. Sánchez was the WBC and The Ring featherweight champion from 1980 to 1982. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that had it not been for his premature death, Sánchez could have gone on to become the greatest featherweight boxer of all time. Sánchez died on August 12, 1982, in a car accident while driving from Querétaro to San Luis Potosí. He is also the uncle of Salvador Sánchez II.

Mexican boxer

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Biography from the article Salvador Sánchez on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.