Former WBA Bantamweight Champ Dynamite Estrada of Mexico is Stabbed and Killed in Dispute
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Tijuana, Mexico (June 23, 2015)– Former World Boxing Association World Bantamweight champion Juan Jose ‘Dinamita’ Estrada of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, has been stabbed to death and assassinated in Tijuana what appears to have been a family dispute. He was 51 years old.
Estrada fought in the ring as a professional in the bantamweight weight class from August 1983 to May 1994. Estrada won the World Boxing Council International Bantamweight title with a victory over Raul Payo Valdez by tenth round technical decision in Tijuana in December 1987, and defended it by tenth round stoppage of Luisito Espinoza in Tijuana three months later. In May 1988, Estrada won a 12 round decision over defending champion Bernardo Pinango of Venezuela in Tijuana to win the WBA World Bantamweight championship.
Estrada fought in five consecutive world title bouts in 1988 and 1989, defending his WBA title with an eleventh round stoppage over Takuya Mugurama of Japan, Jesus Poll of Venezuela, and Luis Mendoza of Columbia. Estrada lost his world title when he was disqualified in the ninth round against Jesus Salud of Hawaii at the Great Western Forum, in Inglewood, California, on December 11, 1989. However, Salud was subsequently stripped of the WBA title for failing to defend.
Estrada then lost ten round decisions in 1990 to Joe ‘King Cobra’ Orewa of Nigeria, and in 1991 Jose Mendez of Mexico at super bantamweight in the higher weight class. Estrada then announced his retirement. In May 1994, Estrada attempted a comeback in Tijuana but was stopped in the fourth round by fellow Tijuana boxer Francisco Valdez at lightweight. Since Valdez lost 13 of his last 16 bouts, the loss was evidence Estrada was in the wrong weight class, and his skills had eroded. Estrada retired for good at that point, and like the late middleweight Bennie Briscoe, worked as a professional garbage man. Estrada’s career record was 36-11 with 30 knockouts, a 77 percent knockout ratio.
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