Record details

Edwin VALERO

"El aniquilador" "El Inca"

Lightweight

Male

Venezuela, El Vigía
Born: December 3, 1981, Bolero Alto, Edo.Mérida
Died: April 19, 2010, Valencia, Venezuela
Height: 5ft 7 1/2in, mt 1,70
"southpaw"

Valero, according to Police, hanged himself in his jail cell after being arrested for stabbing his wife to death.
He used the sweat pants he was wearing to hang himself from a bar in the cell.
Valero was found hanging in his cell early Monday by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in north-central Carabobo state, Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters.
He said Valero showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 2 a.m. on April 19, 2010.
Valero had problems with alcohol and cocaine addiction and struggled with depression.
He had previously been suspected of assaulting his wife and was charged in March 2010 with harassing her and threatening personnel at a hospital where she was treated for injuries.
Valero’s 24-year-old wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera, was found dead in a hotel room half way across the country on April 17, 2010, and police said the fighter emerged from their room telling hotel security he had killed her.
Valero was a household name in Venezuela and had a huge image of Venezuela’s president tattooed on his chest along with the country’s yellow, blue and red flag.

No amateur results

Professional record


2002
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ July 9	Eduardo Hernandez	Caracas, Venezuela	KO 1
+ Sept. 23	Danny Sandoval	Caracas, Venezuela	KO 1
+ Oct. 26	Angel Alfredo Rivero	Turmero, Venezuela	TKO 1
+ Nov. 18	Luis Soto	Caracas, Venezuela	TKO 1
+ Nov. 30	Julio Pineta	Caracas, Venezuela	KO 1

2003
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Mar. 22	Danny Sandoval	Turmero, Venezuela	KO 1
+ May 17	Edgar Mendoza	Turmero, Venezuela	TKO 1
+ May 23	Darius Julio	Caracas, Venezuela	KO 1
+ July 19	Emmanuel Ford	Maywood, California	TKO 1
+ Aug. 28	Roque Cassiani	Irvine, California	TKO 1
+ Oct. 27	Alejandro Heredia	Caracas, Venezuela	KO 1
+ Dec. 18	Tomas Zambrano	Irvine, California	TKO 1


2004 Inactive

2005
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ May 21	Hernan A. Valenzuela	Caseros, Argentina	TKO 1
+ July 1	Esteban de Jesus Morales	Panama City, Panama	KO 1
+ Aug. 13	Jose Hernandez	Maracay, Venezuela	KO 1
+ Sept. 25	Hero Bando	Yokohama, Japan	TKO 1
+ Dec. 5	Aram Ramazyan	Paris Bercy, France	KO 1

2006
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Feb. 25	Whyber Garcia	Turmero, Venezuela	TKO 1
(Won WBA Fedelatin Super-Featherweight Title and WBA Super-Featherweight Title Eliminator)
+ Mar. 25	Genaro Trazancos	Kobe, Japan	TKO 2
+ Aug. 5	Vicente Mosquera	Panama City, Panama	TKO 10
(Won WBA Super-Featherweight Title)

2007
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 3	Michael Lozada	Tokyo, Japan	TKO 1
(Retained WBA Super-Featherweight Title)
+ May 3	Nobuhito Honmo	Tokyo, Japan	TKO 8
(Retained WBA Super-Featherweight Title)
+ Dec. 15	Zaid Zavaleta	Cancún, Mexico	TKO 3
(Retained WBA Super-Featherweight Title)

2008
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ June 12	Takehiro Shimada	Tokyo, Japan	TKO 7
(Retained WBA Super-Featherweight Title)

2009
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 4	Antonio Pitalua	Austin, Texas	TKO 2
(Won vacant WBC Lightweight Title)
+ Dec. 19	Hector Velazquez	La Guaira, Venezuela	TKO 7
(Retained WBC Lightweight Title)

2010
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Feb. 6	Antonio de MARCO	Monterrey, Mexico	TKO 10 (0:10)
(Retained WBC Lightweight Title)

Summary