1. Diosdado Posadas, better known as Speedy Dado, was a Filipino boxer who contended for the world flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight championships.
27 Facts About Speedy Dado
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Speedy Dado met Brown twice more, winning one fight and losing the other.
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On February 10,1931, Speedy Dado defeated Newsboy Brown at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for the vacant USA California State bantamweight championship.
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Speedy Dado took six rounds with Brown only one, and the rest were even.
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On November 15,1932, Speedy Dado defeated Rodolfo Casanova in a well publicized main bout before 10,000 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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Speedy Dado floored Casanova twice in the first round, once for counts of seven and five, but Casanova fought back and appeared to take the second.
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Speedy Dado fought for world titles on three other occasions, losing both of them.
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Speedy Dado lost a ten-round points decision in Los Angeles on January 25,1933, to Baby Arizmendi for the California version of the world featherweight title.
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Speedy Dado defeated Baby Palmore on March 10,1933, in a ten-round points decision in Hollywood.
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Speedy Dado lost on March 21,1933, to Freddie Miller for the National Boxing Association featherweight title at the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles.
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On October 24,1933, Speedy Dado defeated Young Tommy, a fellow Filipino, in a ten-round points decision at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for the USA California State Bantamweight title.
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Speedy Dado took seven of the ten rounds, and showed great speed in the victory before a capacity crowd.
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Speedy Dado fought three high-profile bouts through the summer of 1934 in Australia.
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Speedy Dado lost to Merv Darky Blandon, Australian bantamweight champion, in a fifteen-round points decision on April 11,1934, at Sydney Stadium.
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Speedy Dado scored with lefts to the body, with fierce attacks throughout the bout, but showed more caution when getting in close.
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Speedy Dado was rated in the top five among bantamweights in the world at the time.
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Speedy Dado successfully defended his USA California State bantamweight title on September 28,1934, in a close and furious ten round points decision against Joe Tei Ken in San Francisco.
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Speedy Dado had won in two previous matches between the two.
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Speedy Dado defeated future bantamweight champion Lou Salica on October 19,1934, in a ten-round points decision before a full house at Legion Stadium in Hollywood.
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Speedy Dado took the offense in most of the contest and fought with his characteristic speed, but seemed to coast after the first thirty seconds of several rounds, exhibiting reduced endurance from his earlier years.
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Speedy Dado scored a no-count knockdown in the second round.
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At 28, with fifteen years of boxing behind him, Speedy Dado had taken too much pounding to stay a top rated competitor.
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Speedy Dado retired from boxing in 1940 after a fifth-round technical knockout loss to Juan Zurita on July 21 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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Speedy Dado worked for a period as a chauffeur for actress Mae West in Los Angeles, as had several other high-profile boxers.
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Speedy Dado had confronted Vickers about why he was carrying a gun, and was shot while attempting to take the.
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Speedy Dado faced several arrests for drinking in his later years in Los Angeles.
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Speedy Dado died on July 2,1990, in Manila, Philippines at the age of 83.