{"id":35147,"date":"2014-02-03T01:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35147"},"modified":"2014-02-03T01:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:47:05","slug":"hector-camacho-roger-mayweather-boxing-and-life-after-tony-the-tiger-baltazar-reflects-back-on-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35147","title":{"rendered":"Hector Camacho, Roger Mayweather, Boxing and Life After: Tony &#8220;The Tiger&#8221; Baltazar Reflects Back on his Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35147\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-407\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Tony Baltazar header\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Tony-Baltazar-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Exclusive interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Interview conducted in 2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI have been a fighter all of my life\u201d&#8211;Tony \u201cThe Tiger\u201d Baltazar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s, the lightweight division was full of talented fighters that included names such as Hector Camacho, SR, Edwin Rosario, Roger Mayweather, Cubanito Perez and our man of the hour in this interview, Tony \u201cThe Tiger\u201d Baltazar, who by the way, when he was younger, looked like a dead ringer for a young Tony Danza when he starred on the TV show Taxi. Tony, a tough as nails fighter based out of Los Angeles, California, would turn pro on Feb 8, 1979, when he stopped Art Silveira in just the first round of their boxing match.<!--more--> From there, Tony would fight seven more times in just 1979 which today, a fighter is lucky to have a total of five fights per year, even an upcoming prospect for the most part. Tony would win via the TKO, KO and decision route remaining undefeated in 24 fights over a four year period. In his 25th fight of his career, he faced former 1976 Olympic Gold Medal winner and slick boxer, Howard Davis, JR. In this fight, Tony would taste defeat for the first time via a decision in Davis\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n<p>Tony would go on in his boxing career, beating some big names along the way such as Roger Mayweather and Roque Montoya, while being stopped by another hot prospect named \u201cRockin\u201d Robin Blake. Baltazar for whatever reason which we will get into during our interview could not secure a World Title shot until his 11th year as a professional fighter when he faced Hector Camacho, SR. for his WBO Junior Welterweight Title on August 11, 1990, dropping a decision to the \u201cMacho Man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tony would challenge for another world title on March 22, 1993, but in this title attempt, he would not fair so well being stopped in the first round by Carlos Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/?p=18131\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Click here to read the rest of:\u00a0Hector Camacho, Roger Mayweather, Boxing and Life After: Tony &#8220;The Tiger&#8221; Baltazar Reflects Back on his Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt (Interview conducted in 2006) \u201cI have been a fighter all of my life\u201d&#8211;Tony \u201cThe Tiger\u201d Baltazar During the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s, the lightweight division was full of talented fighters that included names such as Hector Camacho, SR, Edwin Rosario, Roger Mayweather, Cubanito Perez and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9744,326,1394],"class_list":["post-35147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing-and-life-after-tony-the-tiger-baltazar-reflects-back-on-his-life","tag-hector-camacho","tag-roger-mayweather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35147"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}