Valero’s twentieth bout would see him contest for his first world title, the fight would get off to the perfect start for Valero, knocking down Vicente Mosquero twice in the first round. It would be his nineteenth bout before someone would take him past the first round, and then that bout only went to the second. ‘Dinamita’ was living up to his name, a first-round KO, this first-round knockout would be the start of a record-breaking streak of first-round knockouts. The ninth of July 2002, Valero makes his professional debut, a debut that would last just two minutes. The impact would throw the helpless rider an estimated twenty feet and he would sustain injuries that would require thirteen weeks in the hospital. Edwin, riding a motorcycle at 50mph, would collide into the back of a car. In 2001 Valero would suffer injuries in a road traffic accident, injuries that would rob him from dream fights in America. Whichever is true, it was clear that Valero had a less than perfect childhood and crime was seemingly a way of life. Edwin himself maintains it was a six-month sentence for motorcycle theft, other reports suggest it was a seven-month sentence for assaulting a woman at gunpoint. One prison sentence imparticular scared the future star from a life of crime, the reason and length of stay however depends on who you believe. He wouldn’t evade the law for long though, by fifteen years old he had been jailed an estimated dozen times, each time relying on his amateur coach to bail him out. Robbery and motorcycle theft were popular pass times, even opting to keep the stolen motorcycles in the gym he now called home. Prograis PPV price - $74.99 on DAZN, subscribers pay $59.99 Whilst his boxing career was looking bright his life outside of the ring was still chaotic, something he would later become renowned for. He narrowly missed going to the Olympics when, future IBF champion Valdemir Pereiro, beat him on a points decision. Valero soon showed star talent, and as an amateur, he won three national amateur championships. He would let Edwin and his brother Edward live at the gym, even issuing them with a key. However, Oscar Ortega, Valero’s boxing coach, would give Valero a chance. Like the cost of lessons meant Edwin couldn’t afford to continue at Tae Kwon Do, it was the cost of public transport that almost meant that boxing lessons too had to stop. It was this former boxer who directed the future champion to his first boxing gym. He gained employment in a bicycle shop, the owner of which was a former boxer. Unfortunately, the financial burden was too much and Edwin had to give it up. At thirteen Valero would get his first taste of organised combat, taking up Tae Kwon Do. By twelve, the troubled child had become homeless, this is in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Education was no longer an option as survival now had to take precedence, helping his mother by selling fruit, a means of employment all too familiar in those parts. This would change when Edwin turned seven, his parents split, the difficult situation that his once complete family had faced, now got a whole lot worse without the man of the house around to fill that fatherly role. Sharing a two-bedroom house with his four siblings, his mother, and father. Like many South American boxers before him, he would be raised the hard way. Edwin Valero was no different, born on the 3rd of December 1981 into a life of poverty. The early marks left on the human body and mind play a paramount role in what we become. Many people complain of a hard upbringing, most claim these arduous beginnings can make or break you.
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