His best win was stopping Demarco in 11 rounds. He knocked out everybody as a boxer, but his competition was weak. He was a miserable human being who ended up murdering his wife and killing himself. Edwin Valero was being built as a future challenger to Manny Pacquiao when in April 2010 he was found dead in a jail cell having ended his own life af. His record was impressive with 28 wins out of 28 fights including 10 knockouts however, since he never faced top competition he won’t feature highly on our list.Ĭalero is a man that most overrate today and some even glorify. Unfortunately, after one defense in one year, he was forced to retire due to injury. As an amateur fighter, he won nearly all 200 of his fights before turning professional at 22 years old and winning the WBO Welterweight title six years later. Some even changed their names, like Romanian Mihai Leu. Michael LoeweĪs with the brothers Klitschko, many professional boxers from Eastern Europe competed professionally in Germany. The criteria to make this list is simple, never lose! To rank the top ten we matched their accomplishments with each other and came up with what we think was a fair list. Either way, it’s hard to be perfect in anything, but these boxers were. Some were overly protected and fought most fights in their hometown. Most retired earlier than most, and that preserved their unbeaten records. Some of these men finished unbeaten because their lives were cut short. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.The list of unbeaten boxers is short finishing a career unbeaten is hard. In chilling detail, Don Stradley captures one of the darkest and most sensational boxing stories in recent memory, which, until now, has never been fully told.įilled with firsthand accounts from the men who trained Valero and the reporters who covered him, as well as insights from psychologists and forensic experts, Berserk is a hell-ride of a book.īerserk is the first in the Hamilcar Noir series, from Hamilcar Publications. 20 21 Valero was considered a suspect and was taken to jail. But the Fates had other ideas.įueled by cocaine and booze and paranoia, Valero blazed into a mania that derailed his career in the ring and resulted in the brutal death of his young wife Jennifer-and soon afterward, his own. On 18 April 2010, Valero was arrested after police found the body of his 24-year-old wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero, in a hotel in the city of Valencia, Carabobo. With a perfect knockout record in twenty-seven fights, the demonic Venezuelan boxer, known as "El Inca" and "El Dinamita," seemed destined for a clash with all-time great Manny Pacquiao. Within the dark pages of Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero, author Don Stradley uncovers the gritty details of the undefeated (27-0, 27 KO), troubled, boxer Edwin Valero.Įdwin Valero's life was like a rocket shot into a wall. As calmly as one might order something from room service, he told the staff that he had just killed his wife." "There's no telling what went on during the next few hours, or where his paranoia took him, but in that room something terrible happened. A gritty, absorbing account of a boxer who couldn't defeat his own inner demons." - Kirkus Reviewsįrom the pages of Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero. Boxing fans interested in agic figure should be captivated. "Stradley has].a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Print Berserk - The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero
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