José María Flores Burlón

José María Flores Burlón (born February 10, 1955) is an Uruguayan former professional boxer. Flores Burlón had a total of 115 professional bouts. He challenged once for the WBC Cruiserweight title in 1988.

Boxing career Early career Flores Burlón began his professional boxing career on February 6, 1976, defeating Alejandro García by a six round decision in Pergamino, Argentina. His first fourteen bouts were in Pergamino, he had a record of 13 wins and 1 draw (tie) during that span, the draw coming on September 17 of that same year against Segundo Paiz, over ten rounds.

On January 27, 1977, Flores Burlón had his first fight outside Pergamino, when he outpointed Raul Antonio Paez over ten rounds in Arrecife, Argentina.

Eventually, Flores Burlón built a record of 27 wins, no losses and two draws, with ten knockouts, before he faced Pedro Cesar Duarte, on March 3, 1978 in San Luis, Argentina. Flores Burlón lost for the first time as a professional, when Duarte outpointed him over ten rounds.

Championship title After three more victories and one loss, Flores Burlón fought for a title for the first time. His first championship bout also marked his debut in Uruguay. He beat Marcelo Quiñones on August 12, 1978 at Montevideo to win the South American Middleweight title, which had been vacant since Hugo Corro had defeated Rodrigo Valdéz for the world championship.

Flores Burlón lost the South American title in his first defense, being knocked out in round four by Ruben Pardo on January 12, 1979 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Flores Burlón then had some career ups and downs, winning 2, losing 2 and drawing 1 of his next five bouts. After losing on November 2 to Rogelio Zarza. After that fight, he began a twelve-fight win streak, when he beat Aldo Carmona by a knockout in eight rounds, on April 24, 1980. Among the twelve victories in that streak were a second round knockout over Zarza, a ten round decision win against Duarte, and a twelve round decision over Pardo on April 25, 1981 in Buenos Aires. His victory over Pardo made him South American Middleweight champion for the second time. On June 13 of that year, Flores Burlón met another well known Middleweight of the area, Juan Roldán. He lost to Roldán by a third round knockout.

Fame Flores Burlón began another winning streak when he defeated Jorge Servin by a knockout in five rounds on August 8. He won 19 bouts in a row, including a third fight with Rogelio Zarza, and his United States debut, when he knocked Dornell Wigfall out in six rounds as part of the Michael Spinks vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi fight's undercard on March 18, 1983 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. By then, Flores Burlón had changed division, becoming a world ranked light heavyweight. Flores Burlón became famous across Latin America, Ring En Español dedicating many articles to him.

Despite being defeated with a second round knockout by Cesar Abel Romero on July 30 of 1983, Flores Burlón was named South American Light Heavyweight champion. He lost that title on his first defense, being knocked out in round one by Juan Carlos Gimenez Ferreyra, on November 13, in Asunción, Paraguay. Almost one year later, on November 10, 1984, he recovered the South American Light Heavyweight title, defeating Victor Robledo by a twelve round decision in Buenos Aires.

World Championship try On May 25, 1986, Flores Burlón conquered his third regional belt when he won the South American Cruiserweight title by knocking Hector Pedro Rohr out in the fourth round, at the Argentine city of Necochea. On August 8, he outpointed former world champion Marvin Camel in ten rounds, once again in Buenos Aires. After this win, Flores Burlón was ranked number one among Cruiserweight challengers in the world.

On January 22, 1988, Flores Burlón had his first world title try. Attempting to become Uruguay's first world boxing champion in history, he lost a twelve round unanimous decision to Puerto Rican Carlos de León, the World Boxing Council's champion, in Atlantic City. This would turn out to be the only world championship fight Flores Burlón ever had.

Flores Burlón boxed for twelve more years, winning the WBA's Fedelatin (Latin American) and WBC's mundo Hispano (Hispanic world)'s Light Cruiserweight titles. He retired after beating Reginaldo Dos Santos by a knockout in round six on September 9, 2000, to retain his mundo Latino belt.

Overall career Flores Burlón had 96 wins, 11 losses and 8 draws, with 47 knockout wins. He is a resident of Pergamino, Argentina, where he held many of his early professional bouts.

Professional boxing record

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RTD 7 29/09/2000

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UD 10 04/08/2000

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UD 12 16/06/2000

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KO 2 05/05/2000

Draw

PTS 8 24/03/2000

Win

UD 8 18/02/2000

Win

TKO 6 21/08/1999

Win

KO 1 19/06/1999

Loss

TKO 1 31/10/1990

Win

KO 6 03/08/1990

Win

TKO 7 04/11/1989

Win

UD 12 16/06/1989

Win

KO 6 19/05/1989

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KO 1 14/04/1989

Loss

UD 12 22/01/1988

Win

PTS 10 18/09/1987

Win

PTS 10 14/08/1987

Win

PTS 10 10/07/1987

Draw

PTS 10 06/02/1987

Win

PTS 10 22/11/1986

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UD 10 08/08/1986

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KO 4 25/05/1986

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KO 3 18/04/1986

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PTS 10 21/12/1985

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PTS 10 20/12/1985

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TKO 7 23/11/1985

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TKO 5 27/09/1985

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TKO 5 24/08/1985

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PTS 10 21/07/1985

Win

RTD 7 17/05/1985

Win

PTS 12 10/11/1984

Draw

PTS 10 07/09/1984

Loss

PTS 10 16/08/1984

Win

PTS 10 16/03/1984

Loss

KO 1 13/11/1983

Win

KO 6 06/10/1983

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KO 2 17/09/1983

Loss

KO 2 30/07/1983

Win

KO 7 01/07/1983

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TKO 2 21/05/1983

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KO 1 06/05/1983

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TKO 5 13/04/1983

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KO 6 18/03/1983

Win

PTS 10 23/12/1982

Win

PTS 10 08/10/1982

Win

TKO 8 06/08/1982

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TKO 9 26/06/1982

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TKO 2 24/05/1982

Win

KO 2 07/05/1982

Win

PTS 10 10/04/1982

Win

TKO 8 12/03/1982

Win

PTS 10 20/02/1982

Win

PTS 10 18/12/1981

Win

PTS 10 20/11/1981

Win

KO 6 06/11/1981

Win

PTS 10 04/09/1981

Win

TKO 5 08/08/1981

Loss

TKO 3 13/06/1981

Win

PTS 10 29/05/1981

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KO 6 15/05/1981

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PTS 12 25/04/1981

Win

TKO 9 24/04/1981

Win

PTS 10 13/03/1981

Win

PTS 10 19/12/1980

Win

TKO 2 10/10/1980

Win

RTD 3 12/09/1980

Win

TKO 6 14/06/1980

Win

PTS 10 24/05/1980

Win

KO 2 10/05/1980

Win

RTD 8 24/04/1980

Loss

TKO 9 02/11/1979

Win

PTS 10 05/10/1979

Win

RTD 10 31/08/1979

Draw

PTS 10 10/08/1979

Loss

PTS 10 13/07/1979

Loss

TKO 4 12/01/1979

Draw

PTS 10 25/11/1978

Win

KO 8 13/10/1978

Win

PTS 10 23/09/1978

Draw

PTS 10 08/09/1978

Win

PTS 12 12/08/1978

Win

PTS 10 07/07/1978

Win

PTS 10 27/05/1978

Win

TD 7 05/05/1978

Loss

PTS 10 06/04/1978

Loss

PTS 10 03/03/1978

Win

PTS 10 30/01/1978

Win

PTS 10 23/12/1977

Win

PTS 10 11/11/1977

Win

PTS 10 22/10/1977

Win

KO 10 01/10/1977

Win

TKO 8 16/09/1977

Win

PTS 10 29/08/1977

Win

PTS 10 05/08/1977

Win

PTS 10 09/07/1977

Win

PTS 10 03/06/1977

Win

TKO 2 20/05/1977

Draw

PTS 10 07/05/1977

Win

PTS 10 09/04/1977

Win

RTD 4 10/03/1977

Win

PTS 10 27/01/1977

Win

PTS 10 17/12/1976

Win

PTS 10 25/11/1976

Win

KO 6 05/11/1976

Draw

PTS 10 17/09/1976

Win

PTS 10 03/09/1976

Win

PTS 10 07/08/1976

Win

TKO 8 16/07/1976

Win

KO 3 18/06/1976

Win

PTS 8 04/06/1976

Win

TKO 3 24/05/1976

Win

PTS 8 30/04/1976

Win

KO 3 12/03/1976

Win

TKO 3 20/02/1976

Win

PTS 6 06/02/1976