1. Gregorio Manuel Peralta, better known as Gregorio "Goyo" Peralta, was a top Argentine boxer.
19 Facts About Gregorio Peralta
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Gregorio Peralta later resided in the area of Rosario, in Santa Fe Province.
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Gregorio Peralta's first fight abroad had already been held, when he beat Marcelo Farias by a second-round knockout 35 days before, at Montevideo.
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On March 31,1959, Gregorio Peralta suffered his first loss as a professional, a ten-round decision defeat to then reigning South American light heavyweight champion Luis Ignacio in Sao Paulo, Brazil in a non-title bout.
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On June 15,1960, Gregorio Peralta was knocked out by Mina in eight rounds at Lima, Peru.
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Gregorio Peralta then won twelve and drew one of his next thirteen bouts.
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Gregorio Peralta was given his first chance at winning a belt when he fought Jose Giorgetti, on August 4,1962, at Mar del Plata for the Argentine Heavyweight title.
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Gregorio Peralta won the national belt by outpointing Giorgetti over twelve rounds, and then won fifteen more bouts in a row, for a total of 24 victories and one draw in twenty-five bouts.
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Gregorio Peralta's first fight with Pastrano marked Peralta's United States debut as a professional boxer.
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Gregorio Peralta beat future Jose Torres world championship challenger, Wayne Thornton, by a ten-round decision there.
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Pastrano retained the championship with a sixth-round knockout in a fight that had different views from boxing magazines; while the general consensus is that Pastrano was actually winning the fight when it was stopped, Ring En Espanol actually claimed twenty years later that Gregorio Peralta was hitting Pastrano and had him against the ropes when the referee intervened and raised Pastrano's arm as the fight's winner.
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Gregorio Peralta went on to win nine of his next ten fights, including a rematch victory over Mauro Mina, outpointed in ten rounds at Buenos Aires on September 19 of '64, before defending his Argentine Heavyweight title for the first time, and losing it, to Oscar Bonavena by a twelve-round decision on September 4,1965, in Buenos Aires.
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Gregorio Peralta then went undefeated over his next 32 bouts, building a record of twenty nine wins and three draws, with seventeen knockouts over that span.
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Foreman was the rising ex-Olympic star and Gregorio Peralta, then ranked 9th world contender, was predicted to be his biggest test to date.
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Foreman held an aura as an awesome knockout artist but Gregorio Peralta doggedly went ten full rounds with the future two-time world Heavyweight champion.
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Gregorio Peralta had three consecutive bouts in Spain, winning each of by knockout.
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Once again, Gregorio Peralta fought ten rounds with Foreman, but he was knocked out in the tenth, on May 10,1971.
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Gregorio Peralta won his next two bouts by knockout in Germany, and then in a rematch held Lyle to a ten-round draw in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Gregorio Peralta led a quiet life after retiring, dying on October 3,2001.