Dommys Delgado Berty

Dommys Lourdes Delgado Berty is a Puerto Rican sports administrator. She was the president of the Puerto Rican Boxing Commission, becoming, in 1995, the first woman in history to be president of a national boxing commission, a fact that was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. Delgado Berty kept working in the sport of professional boxing until 2017.

Early life Delgado Berty was born in the New York borough of The Bronx, to a Puerto Rican family that included her father Manuel Delgado, mother Esther Berty and eight brothers. Her grandfather, Zenen Flores, was one of the trainers of Puerto Rico's first world boxing champion, Sixto Escobar. At the age of eight, the Delgado-Berty family returned to Puerto Rico, moving to Residencial Manuel A. Perez, Between 1993 and 1997, Delgado Berty supervised five world championship fights, all WBO ones. She traveled to Spain and Mexico in her condition as a supervisor. These fights included one of her countryman Alex Sanchez, who beat Arturo Mayan by first-round knockout on January 7, 1994, at Palma de Mallorca to retain his WBO world Minimumweight title, with Delgado Berty at ringside. The last time Delgado Berty acted as a supervisor was on a contest for the WBO world Flyweight title, between champion, Argentina's Carlos Salazar and challenger, Mexico's Antonio Ruiz, a fight held at the Parque de Beisbol Ferrocarill in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, on March 8, 1997, a bout in which Salazar retained his title by a twelve-rounds draw (tie).

In 1999, Delgado Berty was selected as the Department of Sports and Recreation's Commissioner of the Millennium, and she was recognized as such during an event honoring Puerto Rico's best boxers and professional wrestlers for the previous year. a fight which Cotto won by a twelfth-round technical knockout. Delgado Berty continued as president, but Callejas indeed substituted her in that charge, when he was named to it by then-Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello during 2017.

Delgado Berty ended up supervising 100 boxing shows.

Personal life She has three daughters (Dommys, Gliiza and Osear) and one son (Wilbert). Wilbert was a professional baseball player who once played on a San Diego Padres double-A affiliate team and for the Indios de Mayaguez baseball team in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League.