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- Miguel Ángel Vásquez Bautista
was born in Guadalajara (on
January 6, 1987), the same city
which produced other stars such
as Abner Mares and Saul “Canelo”
Alvarez.
- His nickname, “El Titera”,
means “The Puppet”.
- At the urging of his father,
Vazquez started boxing at
twelve, and compiled a record of
70-10 as an amateur. He was
trained by his father from the
start and until the age of
twenty-one.
- In his professional debut
(January 20, 2006), two weeks
after his nineteenth birthday,
Vasquez lost a split decision
over four rounds at Light
Welterweight to the
aforementioned “Canelo”, now the
worlds number-one Middleweight,
who at the time was 2-0 and not
yet sixteen.
- In his first six bouts,
Vazquez faced opponents who was
a combined 10-0. He went 5-1
against them, losing only to
Alvarez.
- So far, Vazquez is 16-4
against undefeated opponents. He
has beaten the likes of Breidis
Prescott (21-0), Leonardo
Zappavigna (25-0), Mercito Gesta
(26-0-1) and Denis Shafikov
(33-0-1), but come up short
against Alvarez twice,
soon-to-be Hall of Famer Timothy
Bradley (20-0), and Josh Taylor
(10-0). Taylor is the only man
to stop Vasquez.
- Vasquez has boxed as a
professional in five different
countries: Nicaragua, USA,
China, Scotland and of course
Mexico.
- In 2008 he got a rematch with
“Canelo”, this time at
welterweight. Vaszquez was 21-1
at the time, while Alvarez had
improved his run to 19-0-1. In
the second go-around, Alvarez
won a unanimous decision over
ten rounds, on a card where all
SIX of his brothers also boxed.
The Alvarez family went 4-3 that
night.
- Vazquez won the IBF World
Lightweight title in 2010,
defeating South Korean Ji-Hoon
Kim, and made six defenses
before losing his crown by split
decision to Mickey Bey in
September of 2014 on the
undercard of Floyd Mayweather
vs. Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas.
- Floyd Mayweather is Vazquez´
favorite fighter to watch, along
with Tommy Hearns and Bernard
Hopkins.
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