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Bobby Chacon (November 28, 1951 – September 7, 2016) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1972 to 1988. He held titles in two weight classes, including the WBC featherweight title from September 1974 to June 1975 and the WBC super featherweight title from December 1982 to June 1983.
Sep 10, 2016 · Bobby Chacon, a scrappy two-time world boxing champion who was haunted by tragedy outside the arena and memorialized in song by Warren Zevon, died on Wednesday at a hospice in Hemet, Calif....
Sep 8, 2016 · LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Hall of Fame boxer Bobby Chacon died Wednesday under hospice care for dementia. He was 64. Riverside County coroner’s Sgt. Brent Seacrest said Chacon died at his home “with his family present at his bedside.”
Sep 7, 2016 · Former two-division world champion and Hall of Famer Bobby Chacon, one of the most exciting and popular fighters of his time, died Wednesday -- 42 years to the day after he won his first world...
Sep 7, 2016 · Bobby Chacon, a San Fernando Valley boxer who won world titles in two weight classes and was involved in a pair of fights regarded as among the best of the mid-1980s, died Wednesday at age...
Bobby Chacon's first main event, bout scheduled for 8 rounds rather than 10 due to his inexperience. LA Times
Sep 7, 2016 · Former two-division world champion and Hall of Fame boxer Bobby Chacon, considered one of the most exciting and tragic fighters of his generation, died Wednesday.
Sep 8, 2016 · Bobby Chacon, a California boxer whose brawling style in the ring helped him win two world titles in the 1970s and 1980s but whose personal life was marred by misfortune, died Sept. 7 at a...
Sep 7, 2016 · Bobby Chacon, a former featherweight and super featherweight world champion who was one of the most popular fighters of his era, died Wednesday following a long battle with pugilistic...
Two-division champion and 2005 International Boxing Hall of Fame enshrinee Bobby Chacon, whose dramatic late-career heroics resulted in back-to-back Fights of the Year against Rafael “Bazooka” Limon and Cornelius Boza-Edwards, died Wednesday morning at age 64.
