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Canto began his professional boxing career on February 5, 1969.

He became one of those rare cases in boxing, like Alexis Argüello, Henry Armstrong, Bernard Hopkins, Victor Luvi Callejas and Wilfredo Vazquez, where a boxer loses his first fight and goes on to become a world champion.

He lost that day to Raul Hernandez, in Canto's hometown of Mérida, by a knockout in round three.