Ocasio, during his championship run, was able to buy a house in Trujillo Alto, where he maintained a large farm.

Estremera developed his talent as a singer while residing in Residencial Las Casas, a public housing complex in the area of Santurce, not far from Trastalleres, where Daniel Santos, Andy Montañez and Ossie Ocasio were raised.

Ocasio is a lifelong resident of Humboldt Park where he attended Von Humboldt Elementary School and Roberto Clemente Community Academy.

Osvaldo Ocasio, ( born August 12, 1955 ), better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion.

Attempting to become the first Hispanic to win the world Heavyweight championship, Ocasio was badly outclassed and lost to Holmes by a knockout in seven rounds.

The crowd jeered Ocasio for his negative style, but it was the intelligent strategy to use on a short bomber like Qawi.

One last comeback in 1992 resulted in a dreary points loss to ex-contender Carl Williams, but it was hard hitting Hispanic prospect Alex Garcia who convinced the usually durable Ocasio to retire-he decked Ocasio several times before knocking him out in the 8th.

" Billy Ocasio was later tapped to replace Gutierrez in the Chicago City Council in January 1993.

After winning her first three fights by knockout, Demick and her managing team felt it was time to step up in her opposition's quality level, so Demick fought Puerto Rican Daisy Ocasio and former world champion Marsha Valley, losing back to back six round unanimous decisions to them.

Ocasio was appointed alderman in 1993 by Mayor Richard M. Daley to fill the unexpired term of Luis Gutierrez, who was elected congressman.

Ocasio was Chairman of the Human Relations Committee.

Cook County Commissioner and 26th Ward Committeeman Roberto Maldonado was tapped to replace Ocasio in the Chicago City Council in 2009.

In 1978 on the undercard of the Larry Holmes / Ken Norton title fight Ocasio scored a major upset when he outpointed the highly regarded Jimmy Young, who'd outpointed George Foreman only a while back.

Poor condition let him be outpointed to prospect Ossie Ocasio.

In August 2012, Los Chicos released their tell all book named " Los Chicos ~ Mil Recuerdos Sus Historias " written by Joana Acevedo Ocasio with the help of original group members Tony Ocasio, Rey Diaz and Migue Santa.

In a rematch, Ocasio underlined his superiority by again outpointing a this time in-shape Young, in Puerto Rico.

Ocasio became a world champion by beating Williams by a 15 round unanimous decision.

He had beaten the challenges of such fighters ( among others ) as Ossie Ocasio, Mike Weaver, Trevor Berbick.

Los Chicos ' most popular members were Chayanne ( now an international super-star ), Migue Santa ( now an helicopter pilot ), Tony Ocasio and Rey Díaz.

Members of the Borough Council are Council President Herbert Littles, Karen Chew, Russell Hirn, Margo Ocasio, Bill Ross and Waltha Webb.

In his first two title defenses, Holmes easily knocked out Alfredo Evangelista and Ossie Ocasio.

Ocasio campaigned in the Heavyweight division, turning pro in 1976 and putting together 10 wins before signing with Don King and making a name for himself outpointing King fighter Kevin Isaac.

However a rematch saw Ocasio surprisingly knocked out in 1 round.

Ocasio made three successful defenses, winning 15 round decisions over Young Joe Louis and Randy Stephens, and knocking out John Odhiambo in the 15th round in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

Although Ring En Español covered every boxing event worldwide, it concentrated more than anything else on Hispanic boxers, helping boxers like Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Julio César Chávez, Eusebio Pedroza, Roberto Durán, Santos Laciar, Antonio Cervantes, Pipino Cuevas, Ossie Ocasio, Lupe Pintor, Rafael " Bazooka " Limón, Edwin Rosario, Héctor Camacho and many others become household names.

After he knocked out Camel in 8 in a rematch, countryman Ossie Ocasio won the WBA world title, becoming the second pair of Puerto Ricans to share world titles in the same division at the same time, after Alfredo Escalera and Samuel Serrano had achieved the feat in the 1970s at Jr. Lightweight.

The only fellow Puerto Ricans to challenge for the heavyweight championship are Ossie Ocasio, Fres Oquendo and John Ruiz, who later became the only Latino to hold a version of the heavyweight championship.

Ossie Ocasio and Fres Oquendo also challenged for the world's heavyweight championship, both are also from Puerto Rico.

He travelled to the inner wilderness for three days, until he found a spring of water and some palm trees, and then he chose to settle there.

In 733, Bede travelled to York, to visit Ecgbert, who was then bishop of York.

The plague then travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea by 1346.

In mid-March he travelled to Strasbourg, and then made his way to Venice, via Milan.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

Since then Mullan and Edwards have travelled to Flanders and the site of the World War One Christmas Truce and the legendary football game between British and German soldiers.

He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates ' teaching and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna ( now Izmir ), Corinth, Crete, Cilicia ( now Çukurova ), Cyprus, and finally the great medical school of Alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine.

Edward's downfall came in 1326 when his Queen Isabella travelled to her native France and then, along with her lover Roger Mortimer, invaded England.

He probably travelled to Tyre next and then down the Euphrates to Babylon.

He then embarked on his most ambitious project, a feature film about Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, who travelled around Norway in the 19th century collecting traditional folk tales.

He then made his way via Cuba to the United States, giving concerts in New York and San Francisco and then travelled to Liverpool, London and Leipzig.

He then travelled overland to Konya and afterwards to Sinope on the Black Sea coast.

From Minorca he travelled to Livorno in Italy, and then on to Rome ,.

Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland, settling in the major commercial city of Glasgow intent on setting up his own instrument-making business.

After the failure of the crusade, John travelled throughout Europe seeking assistance, but found support only from Frederick, who then married John and Maria's daughter Isabella II in 1225.

Łukasiewicz realized the potential of his work and quit the pharmacy to find a business partner, and then travelled to Vienna to register his technique with the government.

In 1927, he travelled to Warsaw and then to Berlin and Munich for a retrospective which finally brought him international recognition.

They travelled from the very beginning of the river near Kissidougou in Guinea, walking at first till a raft could be used, then changing to various local crafts as the river broadened and changed.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

Diodorus Siculus gives another version of the myth in which Osiris was described as an ancient king who taught the Egyptians the arts of civilization, including agriculture, then travelled the world with his sister Isis, the satyrs, and the nine muses, before finally returning to Egypt.

He travelled in the suite of the Pope during the papal visit to Nice, where Paul III was promoting a truce between François I and Charles V. He then accompanied the young Cardinal Farnese on a trip to Spain, France and the Spanish Netherlands to help implement the terms of the truce.

The group of them then travelled to Akka and Haifa in Palestine ( modern day Israel ) on pilgrimage, arriving on December 14, 1889.

Later, when he travelled to Japan as Prime Minister, he was promoted to sho-dan ( first-degree black belt ) by the Kodokan, and then promoted to ni-dan ( second-degree black belt ) by Masao Takahashi in Ottawa before leaving office.

Leaving his brother Edward in command in Galloway, Bruce travelled north, capturing Inverlochy and Urquhart Castles, burning Inverness Castle and Nairn to the ground, then unsuccessfully threatening Elgin.