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Pipino Cuevas Destroys Angel Espada In First Meeting
Eighteen-year-old Pipino Cuevas produced one of boxing’s biggest upsets on July 17, 1976, destroying WBA welterweight champion Angel “El Cholo” Espada in two rounds at Plaza de Toros Calafia in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The explosive victory made Cuevas the youngest welterweight world champion in history, a divisional record that still stands nearly five decades later.
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