Hector Carrasquilla ~ 'Panamanian Wunderkind'

[Bill Paxtom]

Hector Carrasquilla

"The Panamanian Wunderkind"

The highly-touted teenage Super-Bantamweight from 1976/1977.

The Panamanian had an incredible Amateur Career, where he went
76-1 with {55 KO's} before the age of '16', and won numerouus
Panamanian and Central American Bantamweight Junior Titles.

Just 3-weeks before his 16th Birthday, Hector turned professional on April 3, 1976

Within 19-Months, Hector was 11-0-0 with {11 KO's}, and was fighting for the
'vacant' WBA Super-Bantamweight Championship on November 26, 1977.

At the time, Hector was the 'young' Age of {17 years, 6 months and 26 days}

[Bill Paxtom]

Hector Carrasquilla

Was Managed by Rodolfo Siaro.

By June 1977,

Hector Carrasquilla was voted as Panama's '2nd' Most Favorite Athlete, behind
World Lightweight Champion - Roberto Duran.

And was named, Central America's Most Exciting Young Boxer.

Hector was only Age; {17 years, 1 month}

[Master]

He was interesting but got beat by Soo-Hwan Hong

[Bill Paxtom]

Hector Carrasquilla

Was being 'groomed' for the newly created WBA Super-Bantamweight Division,
to be insituted with ratings in July 1977.

At the time, Hector was only {17 years, 2 months} old.

The opposing WBC had already set the 122 lb. Division in motion.

[Bill Paxtom]

The '1st' WBA Ratings for their new Super-Bantamweight Division

July 1977

#1 - Soo-Hwan Hong
#2 - Jesus Esparragoza
#3 - Hector Carrasquilla
#4 - Futaro Tanaka
#5 - Ruben Valdez
#6 - Jose Cervantes
#7 - Dong-Kyun Kim
#8 - Yu Kasahara
#9 - Nestor 'Baba' Jiminez
#10 - Shuzo Yoshida
#11 - Ricardo Cardona
#12 - Gilberto Illueca

[EL DINAMITA]

When I think of carasquilla, Soo Hwan Hong is the first and only thing that comes to mind.. It is pretty sad how he will be known as a young fighter who got KTFO by an old fighter in Hong..

That fight was straight up like a movie and Hong became a hero in Korea with that victory...

I remember listening to Hong's interview that took place shortly after that bout and he said that he was so embarrassed after getting beat up in front of his family which ignited a fire in his belly. He reminded himself in the corner that he would go out guns blazing rather than getting humiliated by this young cat.

Hong owns Carasquilla..

Btw, Hong has a son living in LA who is my age and dude is a druggie..