Willie Jorrín
Willie Jorrín | |
|---|---|
| Born | Guillermo Jaime Jorrín November 12, 1969 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Willie |
| Statistics | |
| Weight(s) | Super Featherweight Featherweight Super Bantamweight |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Reach | 69 in (175 cm) |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 32 |
| Wins | 29 |
| Wins by KO | 13 |
| Losses | 2 |
| Draws | 1 |
| No contests | 0 |
Guillermo Jaime Jorrín (born November 12, 1969), known as Willie Jorrín, is a Mexican-American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2003. He held the WBC super bantamweight title from 2000 to 2002. Jorrín was trained by five-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach.[1]
Amateur career[edit]
Jorrín holds an amateur win over Wayne McCullough in McCullough's home country of Northern Ireland.
Professional career[edit]
Willie made his professional debut on February 12, 1993, with a first round knockout victory over Esau Diegues. This was the first of three consecutive first round knockout victories for Jorrín. On October 1 of that year, Pat Chávez became the first person to go the distance with Jorrín, losing a six-round decision to the Sacramento fighter.
He faced Enrique Jupiter on June 7, 1997. Jupiter was a ranked contender and Jorrín beat him by a ten round unanimous decision. Jorrín then became a ranked challenger by the WBC. Jorrin outpointed Juan Luis Torres, also over ten rounds, on December 4, 1997.
Jorrín won all three of his fights in 1998, including a four round knockout over Enrique Valenzuela. He kept his winning ways in 1999, winning three fights, among them, a twelve round decision over Aristead Clayton and a five round knockout over Juan Luis Torres in a rematch. After those wins, he was ranked as the world's number one contender by the WBC.
WBC Super Bantamweight Championship[edit]
In September 2000, Jorrín took on the road, going to Manchester, England, where he became world champion by beating Michael Brodie on September 9 with a majority decision for the WBC's world Super Bantamweight title, the same belt that Wilfredo Gómez and Lupe Pintor, among others, had had before Jorrín.[2]
For his first defense, he won over Óscar Larios by decision in twelve back home in Sacramento on an ESPN televised fight on January 19, 2001.[3] He then went to Japan, where he dropped Osamu Sato in round three of his second defense, but was only given a draw (tie) by the judges on February 5, 2002.[4] Then Willie lost to Larios in a rematch, Jorrín lost his WBC's world title.
Jorrín started a quest to try to recover his world title almost immediately, and on April 25, 2003, he beat John Hoffman by a knockout in two rounds at Rosemont, Illinois. In his next fight, on November 6 at Phoenix, however, he suffered a setback, losing by unanimous decision in ten rounds to Christen Favela.
See also[edit]
- List of Mexican boxing world champions
- List of super bantamweight boxing champions
- List of WBC world champions
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Willie Jorrín on Myspace
- Boxing record for Willie Jorrín from BoxRec (registration required)