How Did Eder Jofre Die? Former boxer and global boxing champion Éder Jofre died within the early hours of this Sunday (2) in Embu das Artes, in Greater São Paulo.
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The information became showed to TV Globo by means of his own family. Relatives said that Jofre have been hospitalized on account that March in a sanatorium within the metropolis due to pneumonia and that he died because of complications from the sickness.
Until the last replace of this document, the own family members had not disclosed the place and time of Jofre’s wake.
Jofre changed into considered the greatest Brazilian bantamweight boxer of all time. He turned into the world champion of the division between 1960 and 1965. In 1973, he gained the arena identify as a featherweight, a division above the bantamweight.
The 3-time featherweight and bantamweight international champion changed into the first Brazilian to maintain a global-renowned boxing belt. Also known as the “Golden Rooster”, he became inducted in 2021 into the USA West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame.
Jofre turned into born on March 26, 1936. On March four of this year, he became admitted to a hospital in São Paulo due to pneumonia. Furthermore, the former boxer suffered from continual disturbing encephalopathy.
Raised in a family of boxers, Jofre has lived with the sport on account that he become a baby. Around the age of four, he entered a hoop for the primary time, to train with his uncle, Ricardo Zumbano.
And it become at São Paulo Futebol Clube that he commenced his boxing profession, together with his father, Kid Jofre, as his train.
Jofre (72-2-4, 50 KO’s) won world titles at bantamweight and featherweight and is considered by many to be one of the greatest fighters of all-time.
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As a São Paulo athlete, he gained the first São Paulo and Brazilian championships he disputed. Alongside another athlete from the tricolor, jumper Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, he went to represent Brazil on the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
