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  Michael Carbajal vs. Jorge Acre (July 31, 1999)
Carbajal had dropped Acre earlier in the fight in the sixth round with a wicked counter right hand to the jaw.
Carbajal (108, 1999) had difficulty at letting his hands go against the quicker man and settled on a one-shot at a time approach.
Carbajal vaulted atop the ropes and pounded on his chest as beer cups and hopefully their contents rain down upon the ring.
www.boxingtimes.com /analyses/1999/990731carbajal_acre.html   (879 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Local
Michael was sleeping at his grandma's, so she went out for drinks with her cousins.
Carbajal attacked her with an ax handle, prosecutors allege in court records.
Carbajal, 26, is at the Denver County Jail awaiting trial.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3530288,00.html   (2284 words)

  
 Michael Carbajal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carbajal methodically took apart the champion in front of another NBC national audience and in round 7, after a scary combination of punches left Kittikasem laying defenseless against the ropes, the referee stepped in and stopped the fight, making Carbajal the world champion for the first time in his career.
Carbajal was downed in rounds 2 and 5, and he was bleeding from his right eyebrow when he blasted a tremendous left hand to the side of Gonzalez's chin in the seventh round.
Carbajal next took on tough Abner Barajas, winning by a fifth-round knockout in Laughlin, Nevada, and then was given another shot at a world title by the WBO world champ Josue Camacho, who came from Puerto Rico to the challenger's hometown to defend his title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Carbajal   (1241 words)

  
 Michael Carbajal Paves Boxing Path - The Cyber Boxing Zone Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Michael Carbajal goes into the International Boxing Hall of Fame today and Sunday as a little fighter whose celebrity, notoriety, ferocity and instinctive skill always made him too big to ignore.
Carbajal said he was the only American to win.
As fighters, Carbajal (49-4, 33 knockouts) and Gonzalez (43-3, 31 knockouts) were as good as anybody in their generation.
www.cyberboxingzone.com /cbzforum/showthread.php?p=28743#post28743   (870 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Michael Carbajal, Humberto Gonzalez enter Boxing Hall of Fame together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carbajal defeated Gonzalez in their first match on March 13, 1993, to unify the IBF and WBC titles.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his rubber match with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after their last fight — the IBF crown in 1996-1997 and the WBO belt in 1999.
Carbajal retired with a record of 49-4 with 33 knockouts.
www.usatoday.com /sports/boxing/2006-06-11-hall-of-fame_x.htm?csp=34   (735 words)

  
 Boxing - Boxing News - Boxing
When you are Michael Carbajal’s size, which approximates the dimensions of one of Wladimir Klitschko’s legs, your athletic options are by necessity limited.
Carbajal even made financial history when his $1 million purse for his second classic showdown with Gonzalez enabled him to become the first junior flyweight to earn seven figures for a single night’s work.
Carbajal rose from two knockdowns to dramatically stop Gonzalez, the WBC junior flyweight titlist, in the ninth round in what The Ring magazine later cited as its Fight of the Year.
15rounds.com /Columns/bfernandez/carbajal-053006.php   (1545 words)

  
 Brother of former boxing champion facing fraud charges | www.azstarnet.com ®
Celia "Sally" Carbajal, 50, and her boyfriend Gerry Best, 54, were found shot to death in the parking lot of her apartment complex in February.
Police believe Danny Carbajal told the court that Celia lived at his address so all the divorce paperwork was sent to him.
Michael Carbajal, 37, was a four-time WBC and IBF junior flyweight champion.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/90288   (347 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | News | A Long Day's Journey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carbajal said little, but took it all in as he helped himself to a bowl of his mother's potent menudo.
Carbajal was among the most popular athletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and his star dimmed little after a much-disputed loss in the gold-medal bout to a Bulgarian named Hristov.
Carbajal was the first of the 1988 Olympians to win a professional world title, a 1990 knockout of reigning Thai champion Muangchai Kittikasem at a frenzied Veterans' Memorial Coliseum.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-04-10/feature2_1.html   (975 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com:Carbajal and Gonzalez study junior generation
Former U.S. Olympian Michael Carbajal and Mexico's Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez fought each other three times for a junior flyweight championship.
Carbajal unified the IBF and WBC on March 13, 1993, by defeating Gonzalez, who is widely regarded as one of boxing's hardest punchers.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his rubber match with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after his their last fight, the IBF crown in 1996-1997 and the WBO belt in 1999.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2006/01/12/71070_.html   (389 words)

  
 ITV Boxing - Remembering Michael Carbajal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carbajal was a US silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics in Soul at 105lbs, and many observers felt he was unlucky not to bag the gold that summer.
After a time in the wilderness Carbajal was reunited with his much treasured IBF belt when he bested Melchor Cob Castro, and he defended that title twice before losing it to the gifted Mauricio Pastrano.
However they say persistence is the twin sister of excellence, and while those in the trade were mumbling that Carbajal was 'shot' when he announced he was coming back after a two-year sabbatical in 1997, the man himself was gearing up for one final fling.
www.itv-boxing.com /News/Story_Page/0,14442,6243_1320358,00.html   (702 words)

  
 Boxing - Boxing News - Boxing Coverage
Carbajal’s upcoming induction to Canastota, the event commemorated Michael’s outstanding contribution to the sport of boxing and the people of Arizona.
City Councilman Michael Jones and State Representative Ben Miranda would each then speak warmly of the positive image Michael Carbajal has provided for the youth of Arizona.
The evening’s highlight for Michael Carbajal and all in attendance, though, came when Carbajal’s hero, boxing legend “Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone)” Roberto Duran, took the podium and saluted “Manitas de Piedra” Michael Carbajal.
15rounds.com /boxing/News/2006/06/carbajal-060106.php   (519 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | News | Eye of El Tigre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For instance, the local boxer that Michael Carbajal thinks will be great, maybe even trumping his own success, is Carbajal's 12-year-old nephew, Baby Angel, who trains under the champ.
Carbajal cuts off skeptics who question his nephew's legitimacy, saying he'll bet his house -- that nice, well-furbished house on Fillmore -- that one day Baby Angel will be a world champion.
He gets impatient at the mention of Carbajal's name, and before what Michael has said about Jesus can be recounted, Cameron Dunkin tells you what he thinks of Michael Carbajal.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/2003-10-09/feature_6.html   (904 words)

  
 ESPN.com: BOXING - Carbajal close to settling suit against Chandler, Ariz.
CHANDLER, Ariz. -- Former Olympic boxer Michael Carbajal could be close to settling his lawsuit over a parking-lot scuffle with an off-duty police officer for $35,000.
Carbajal and his cousin, Carlos Valdez, got into a fight around 3 a.m.
A jury sided with Carbajal in March 1998 and denied Nichols a $1.5 million claim for his injuries, which included a smashed jaw and a broken eye socket.
espn.go.com /boxing/news/2000/0321/438330.html   (186 words)

  
 Carbajal calls brother 'a disgrace'
Michael Carbajal verbally attacked his brother and former trainer, Danny, Saturday night in his first comment about a lawsuit alleging that his brother stole his money.
Carbajal, a Hall of Fame fighter and retired junior-flyweight champion from Phoenix, didn't say anything more about his older brother or the lawsuit, which first hit the news in last week's edition of the Phoenix New Times.
Phoenix attorney and state legislator Ben Miranda, who represented Carbajal during his boxing career, is saddened by the nasty split between brothers, who once were inseparable.
www.azcentral.com /rsslinks/405677   (494 words)

  
 Welcome to Fitness Corps
Michael Carbajal is a fitness fanatic, especially when it comes to soccer.
Michael is currently working on earning his exercise science degree from Montgomery College.
Michael strongly believes that a high intensity training in a minimum amount of time will maximize your results.
www.fitnesscorps.com /pt.htm   (403 words)

  
 Humberto Gonzalez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carbajal and Gonzalez met in a rematch February 19, 1994 at Inglewood, and the second time around, Gonzalez became a three time world Jr.
His first fight with Carbajal and his fight with Sorjaturong were both chosen as 1995's Fight of the Year by Ring Magazine.
Both Humberto Gonzalez and former rival Michael Carbajal were elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humberto_Gonzalez   (782 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Carbajal, Gonzalez Lead 2006 Class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
CANASTOTA, N.Y. Former U.S. Olympian Michael Carbajal and Mexico's Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez fought each other three times for a junior flyweight championship.
Gonzalez reclaimed the title with a 12-round split decision in a February 1994 rematch, giving Carbajal his first pro loss.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his rubber match with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after his their last fight - the IBF crown in 1996-1997 and the WBO belt in 1999.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2006/jan/12/011201798.html   (590 words)

  
 Michael Carbajal
Michael signs an autograph for a fan at the premier of Black Cloud (2004).
Phoenix native Michael Carbajal was America's Junior Flyweight entry in the 1988 Seoul Olympics in South Korea.
In a professional career spanning the next ten years, Michael recorded 49 wins, 33 of which were knockouts, and only 4 losses.
www.doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/carbajal_michael.htm   (196 words)

  
 Augmint - A Multiprocessor Simulation Environment for Intel x86 architectures - Sharma, Nguyen, Torellas, Michael, ...
Augmint - A Multiprocessor Simulation Environment for Intel x86 architectures - Sharma, Nguyen, Torellas, Michael, Carbajal (ResearchIndex)
Sharma, A. Nguyen, J. Torellas, M. Michael, and J. Carbajal.
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citeseer.ist.psu.edu /sharma96augmint.html   (544 words)

  
 ABC News: Ex-Olympian Carbajal leads 2006 boxing Hall of Fame class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In what many called fight of 1993, Carbajal rose from two knockdowns to stop Gonzalez with a seventh-round knockout.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his rubber match with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after his their last fight — the IBF crown in 1996-1997 and the WBO belt in 1999.
Chosen in the "old-timers" category — boxers whose last fight was before 1942 — were welterweight and middleweight champion Lou Broulliard, light heavyweight champion Jimmy Slattery and middleweight champion Teddy Yarosz.
abcnews.go.com /Sports/ESPNSports/story?id=1498512   (650 words)

  
 Sports People: Carbajal, 'Chiquita' Gonzalez enshrined | www.tucsoncitizen.com ®
CANASTOTA, N.Y. - Rivals Michael Carbajal and Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez elevated the flyweight division to prominence with their three classic fights in the mid-1990s.
Carbajal, 38, owns and runs a gym in Phoenix.
The big night for Hopkins started when his sisters, wife and teachers were brought into the ring in a tribute before a video about his career played on the scoreboard.
www.tucsoncitizen.com /daily/sports/15560.php   (688 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - Carbajal, Gonzalez lead 2006 class for boxing hall
CANASTOTA, N.Y. -- Former U.S. Olympian Michael Carbajal and Mexico's Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez fought each other three times for a junior flyweight championship.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his rubber match with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after his their last fight -- the IBF crown in 1996-1997 and the WBO belt in 1999.
Chosen in the "old-timers" category -- boxers whose last fight was before 1942 -- were welterweight and middleweight champion Lou Broulliard, light heavyweight champion Jimmy Slattery and middleweight champion Teddy Yarosz.
www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=52701   (650 words)

  
 All-Time Boxing Championship Fight Results
Pascua started strong as he knocked Carbajal down in the 2
Carbajal led by 1,2, and 3 points entering the 9
Magri dominated this fight except for two huge rounds for Canto that almost pulled it out for him.
www.knology.net /~football/Boxing/boxchamp.htm   (744 words)

  
 BOXING - CBS SportsLine.com
Meeting again on Sunday, they were enshrined together in the International Boxing Hall of Fame along with 10 other fighters and ring personalities, including late lightweight champion Edwin Rosario of Puerto Rico.
The fight in a Las Vegas casino parking lot drew 20,000 fans and a worldwide pay-for-view audience and generated the first $1 million purse for a flyweight fight.
Carbajal won the WBO junior flyweight title in 1994 before his tiebreaker fight with Gonzalez, and went on to win two more championships after their last fight -- the IBF crown in 1996-97 and the WBO belt in 1999.
cbs.sportsline.com /boxing/story/9492912/rss   (686 words)

  
 The Hawaiian Punch Speaks out: An Interview with Brian Viloria
A lot of the attention gets drawn to the larger weight divisions, not since Michael Carbajal has the 108 pound division or other light divisions been really recognized.
Because, Michael Carbajal came back with a medal, and he proved himself.
It motivated me in thinking if Michael Carbajal could do it, then I could do it, nobody else could stop me but myself.
www.doghouseboxing.com /Harrison/Dickey020905.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Carbajal, Gonzalez lead 2006 class for boxing hall (phillyBurbs.com) | Boxing
Carbajal, Gonzalez lead 2006 class for boxing hall (phillyBurbs.com)
Carbajal, Gonzalez lead 2006 class for boxing hall
CANASTOTA, N.Y. - Former U.S. Olympian Michael Carbajal and Mexico's Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez fought each other three times for a junior flyweight championship.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/103-01122006-596782.html   (681 words)

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