On this day, Sixto Escobar defends world title

February 21st, 1937

Sixto Escobar, born in  Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, and first man of his country to win a boxing world title, successfully defended  his bantamweight title defeating by American, Lou Salica by unanimous decision in a fifteen bout at the Escambron baseball park in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The third man in the ring was the immortal heavyweight king, Jack Dempsey.