Zarate, considered along with rival Wilfredo Gómez to be among the better punchers of the lighter divisions, had an amateur record of 33 wins and 3 losses, with 30 knockout wins, and he won the Mexican Golden Gloves, or Guantes De Oro, in 1969.

He scored knockouts in each of his first 26 bouts, placing him in the exclusive list of boxers who have won at least 20 fights in a row by knockout, alongside such other fighters as George Foreman, Wilfredo Gómez, Carlos Zarate, John Mugabi, Aaron Pryor and Edwin Valero.

Zarate, for his part, won the WBC world title one year and two months after Zamora became WBA world champion, on May 8, 1976, when he defeated defending champion Rodolfo Martinez by an eighth round knockout in Inglewood.

After knocking out former world title challenger Nestor Jimenez in two rounds at Mexicali to end 1975, the WBC made Zarate their number one challenger at the Bantamweight division.

According to many experts and the Ring Magazine book The Ring: Boxing In The 20th Century, Gómez and Zárate had the highest knockout win percentage of any two boxers paired inside a ring in history: When Gómez and Zarate met on October 28, also at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, the challenger and still world Bantamweight champion Zarate was 55-0 with 54 knockouts, while defending world Super Bantamweight champion Gómez was 21-0-1 with 21 knockouts.

After two non title wins ( including one over future Carlos Zarate challenger Paul Ferreri ), Taylor defended his title for the only time, against Soo-Hwan Hong, on 3 July 1974, also at Durban.

He defended his title three times before Zarate had his first world title shot ; one of his challengers was Eusebio Pedroza, the future WBA world Featherweight champion, whom Zamora defeated by knockout in two rounds in Tijuana on April 3 of 1976.

In 1978, Dávila challenged Carlos Zarate for the WBC's world title, losing by a knockout.

After Pintor beat Zarate for the WBC title, Dávila was given a second chance at that belt in a 1980 rematch with the Mexican world champion, and lost by a 15-round decision.

Zarate was voted as the # 1 bantamweight ( along with Ruben Olivares ) of the 20th century by the Associated Press in 1999.

So, after beating Cesar Desiga by a knockout in four on March 29, 1976 in Monterrey, Zarate was faced on the night of May 8 of that year with defending WBC Bantamweight Champion Rodolfo Martínez in Los Angeles.

Zarate became a world Bantamweight champion by knocking his countryman out in the eighth round.

After a first round, Zarate the better boxer, with a reach advantage stayed away and outboxed Zamora wearing him down then knocking him out in four to gain recognition by most boxing fans as the undisputed world champion of the Bantamweights.

In 1978, Zarate started out by meeting future world champion Alberto Davila, whom he knocked out in eight at Los Angeles to retain his belt.

After retaining the title against Emilio Hernandez by a knockout in four and winning a non title bout, Zarate announced he was moving up in weight and challenging the WBC Super Bantamweight champion, Wilfredo Gómez.

Zarate went to the floor four times and tasted the sour taste of defeat for the first time in his career when he was beaten by a knockout in five rounds.

After winning a non title bout against Celso Chavez by a knockout in five in Houston, Texas, Zarate met gym-mate Lupe Pintor in Las Vegas and lost a close and controversial 15 round decision.

11 more victories in a row, all by knockout, including one over then number one world Super Bantamweight challenger Richard Savage ( knocked out by Zarate in five in Mexico City ), made him the WBC's number one challenger at the Super Bantamweight division once again.

In a fight contested for Fenech's world Super Bantamweight title, Zarate lost by a four round technical decision.

Olivares was voted as the # 1 bantamweight ( along with Carlos Zarate ) of the 20th century by the Associated Press in 1999

* Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski ( Strategic Studies Institute, January 26, 2009 ), with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik and Andrew W. Marshall.

* October 28-In an eagerly anticipated bout, Wilfredo Gómez delivers what many consider the greatest victory ever by a Puerto Rican boxer, knocking out Carlos Zarate in five rounds to retain the WBC world Super Bantamweight title, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* June 3-Lupe Pintor survives a knockdown to win the WBC world Bantamweight title, defeating Carlos Zarate by a fifteen round split decision at Las Vegas.

It was illustrated by Oscar Zarate.

In addition to the river and the decaying structures that surround it, he also researched murders that involved the Passaic River, including the horrific case of Jonathan Zarate who attempted to dump the mutilated body of his 16 year-old neighbor in the river, but was thwarted by a police officer who happened to pass by at the time.

Four years later, Frank is taking a group of delinquents-Russell Wolf ( Mikhael Wilder ), Richie Bernson ( Craig Horner ), Christine Zarate ( Christina Vidal ), Zoe Warner ( Rachael Taylor ), Michael Montross ( Luke Pegler ), Kira Vanning ( Samantha Noble ), Tyson Simmons ( Michael J. Pagan ) and Melissa Beudroux ( Penny McNamee )- to clean up the abandoned Blackwell Hotel in order to turn it into a homeless shelter, as explained by the owner Margaret ( Cecily Polson ).

In 1979, Zarate made what would turn out to be his last successful defense, with a third round knockout win over Mensah Kpalongo in Los Angeles.

Most of the world championship boxing bouts fought in Puerto Rico during the late 1970s and early 1980s were fought at the Roberto Clemente coliseum, including Roberto Durán's world title defense versus Mexican Leoncio Ortiz, Wilfredo Gómez's knockout win against Carlos Zarate, many of Samuel Serrano's title defenses, and the fight where Muhammad Ali defended his title against Jean Pierre Coopman, the only time a world Heavyweight championship fight has been held in Puerto Rico.

In an eargely anticipated fight Zarate scored a technical knockout over Zamora in the fourth round.

Zamora was a knockout seeker, but he seemed to lose confidence after his devastating loss to Zarate.

Early in the round Zarate dropped Zamora twice and Alfonzo Zamora Sr. threw in the towel ( literally ; " throwing in the towel " is an old boxing tradition, used by cornermen to tell the referee that they believe their man is beaten and the fight should be stopped, and the source of the popular saying ), giving Zarate a fourth round knockout victory.

The arrival of quality players Ediberto Righi, Norberto Raffo, Oscar Lopez, Luis Maidana and Roberto Zarate, supplemented with local players like Adolfo Vazquez, Oscar Llanos Ezequiel Calics and created a remarkable team that was third in 1960, second in 1961 and first in 1962.

In the second round, Zamora appeared hurt after a right and left combination by Zarate, but he roared back to hit Zarate with a right and left combination of his own later in that round.

Zarate got tagged repeatedly and then a man wearing gray hooded sweat shirt and sweat pants entered the ring.

Juan Vázquez was a follower of Wilfredo Gómez and died shortly after purchasing tickets for his fight against Carlos Zarate.

Other creators whose work appeared in Crisis include Simon Bisley, Glenn Fabry, John Hicklenton, Philip Bond, Si Spencer, Steve Sampson, Chris Standley, Peter Doherty, Igor Goldkind, Tony Allen, James Robinson, Tony Salmons, Oscar Zarate, Paul Neary, Steve Parkhouse and Bernie Jaye.

Carlos Zárate Serna ( born May 23, 1951 in Tepito, Distrito Federal, Mexico ) is a former Mexican boxer, who was better known in the world of boxing as Carlos Zarate.

Sandoval's brother Alberto Sandoval was a popular bantamweight of the 1970s, who unsuccessfully challenged Carlos Zarate and Lupe Pintor for the world title.

The Battle of the Z Boys was a boxing fight between Mexicans Carlos Zarate and Alfonso Zamora, who were, respectively, the WBC and WBA World Bantamweight titleholders.

Zarate retired in disgust, but Pintor proved to be a worthy successor and few rated Owen ’ s chances when they came together at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles on 19 September 1980.

Alexis Argüello, and Carlos Zarate, for instance, were allowed to ignore their obligations to their mandatory contenders while WBC champions.

Victor Ramirez became the first boxer to last the distance with Zarate when Zarate beat him on points in January 1974 in Mexico City over ten rounds.

Fans didn't seem to care that no world title belt would be involved that afternoon, and they packed the fight venue when Zarate and Zamora met in the LA suburb of Inglewood, California, at the Fabulous Forum on April 23 of ' 77.

Zarate made the tactical mistake of going toe to toe with a shorter but harder hitting puncher.

The fight was stopped and thereafter, Zarate managed to stay away from Zamora.

Zarate spent five years in retirement, but the temptation of the public adulation boxers receive when they become champions and the aroma of the boxing ring led him back into competition as a boxer.