Eusebio Pedroza is a retired boxer from Panama who held the World Boxing Association featherweight championship from 1978 to 1985. His 19 successful defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division. His cousin, Rafael Pedroza, was a world champion also, in the junior bantamweight division, although Rafael's reign as world champion was short lived. Pedroza started out as a professional boxer on December 1, 1973, with a four round knockout win over Julio Garcia. His first 15 bouts were all in Panama. He went 14-1 over that span of fights, including a win over Jacinto Fuentes, a boxer who would later draw and lose to Wilfredo G�mez. His one defeat over that period of his career came to Alfonso P�rez by a knockout in three. For fight number 16, Pedroza traveled in the last week of March 1976, to Mexicali, Mexico, to challenge WBA world bantamweight champion Alfonso Zamora for the world title. In his first championship try, Pedroza suffered his second loss, being knocked out in two rounds. After returning to Panama, he beat Pablo Jimenez by a decision in ten, then lost to Oscar Arnal in Venezuela by a knockout in six. He would not lose again for nine years. 

March 2nd, 1953 in Panama City  /  Died:   Mar 1st, 2019 - pancreatic cancer - aged 65