Carlos Zárate
- Born
- 1951
- Died
- —
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Career
- 1970–1988
One of boxing's deadliest punchers by knockout ratio.
Titles & Honours
- World Bantamweight Champion (1976–1979)
Career Timeline
1970–1988- Milestone
First recorded professional bout
vs Luis Castañeda · W KO
- Milestone
25th recorded win
vs Carlos Armenta · KO. Newspaper decisions excluded.
- Title history
Title reign begins
World Bantamweight Champion (1976–1979). Year from profile title history; exact title-winning bout not identified.
- Signature fight
vs Alfonso Zamora
W TKO · Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S.. Archive selection: one of the first three wins over distinct fighters profiled here, not an expert-selected signature fight.
- Milestone
50th recorded win
vs Andres Hernández · TKO. Newspaper decisions excluded.
- Milestone
Latest recorded bout
vs Daniel Zaragoza · L TKO. Not necessarily the retirement date.
Derived from the current archive and profile honours. Title-reign years are not exact bout dates; title claims are not independently verified. Signature fights use existing profile selections, or clearly labelled wins over other archived fighters when no selections exist. Year-only dates retain their original precision.
Photo Archive
No freely licensed photographs of Carlos Zárate are available in this archive.
Fight-by-Fight Record
| Date | Result | Opponent | Method | Round | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-02-02 | W | Luis Castañeda | KO | 3 | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| 1970-03-02 | W | José Pavón | KO | 1 | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| 1970-04-01 | W | Costeñito Sotelo | KO | 2 | Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico |
| 1970-11-17 | W | Nuno Temix | TKO | 3 | Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico |
| 1970-12-18 | W | Alfredo Pérez | KO | 2 | Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico |
| 1971-02-15 | W | Antonio Lucas | KO | 3 | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| 1971-03-20 | W | Fermín Ramos | KO | 2 | Toluca, México State, Mexico |
| 1971-05-05 | W | Ramón Pinedo | KO | 2 | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| 1971-08-07 | W | Julio Martínez | KO | 2 | Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico |
| 1971-11-26 | W | Victor Nava | KO | 3 | Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico |
| 1972-01-28 | W | Emiliano Mayoral | TKO | 3 | Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico |
| 1972-02-07 | W | José González | KO | 2 | Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| 1972-03-19 | W | José Luis Morales | TKO | 2 | Toreo de Cuatro Caminos , Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1972-08-19 | W | Jesús Escobedo | KO | 2 | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| 1972-10-08 | W | Angel Patiño | KO | 2 | Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| 1972-10-31 | W | Armando Carrasco | KO | 2 | Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico |
| 1972-12-03 | W | Juan Ramón Pérez | KO | 2 | La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| 1973-06-02 | W | Juan Ramón Pérez | KO | 2 | La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| 1973-07-12 | W | Francisco Pino | KO | 2 | Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
| 1973-08-21 | W | Alberto Torres | TKO | 5 | Arena Tijuana 72, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1973-10-02 | W | Antonio Castañeda | TKO | 9 | Arena Tijuana 72, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1973-11-01 | W | Eduardo Miranda | KO | 5 | Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1973-12-11 | W | Sixto Pérez | KO | 2 | Arena Tijuana 72, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1974-01-30 | W | Víctor Ramírez | UD | 10 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1974-02-22 | W | Carlos Armenta | KO | 1 | Auditorio Matamoros, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| 1974-04-09 | W | Alfonso Ibarra | KO | 2 | Arena Tijuana 72, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1974-05-03 | W | Chamaco Limón | KO | 3 | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| 1974-05-25 | W | Juan Ordoñez | KO | 3 | Palacio de los Deportes , Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1974-08-03 | W | Magallo Lozada | TKO | 5 | Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1974-10-27 | W | Francisco Cruz | TKO | 2 | Gimnasio de Mexicali, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1974-11-23 | W | James Martinez | TKO | 7 | Forum , Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1975-02-04 | W | Alberto Cabanig | TKO | 4 | Arena Coliseo, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| 1975-03-14 | W | Joe Guevara | RTD | 3 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1975-06-20 | W | Orlando Amores | KO | 3 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1975-08-16 | W | José Sánchez | TKO | 3 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1975-09-20 | W | Benicio Segundo Sosa | TKO | 4 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1975-10-11 | W | Jorge Torres | TKO | 8 | Auditorio Benito Juarez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| 1975-12-07 | W | Néstor Jiménez | KO | 2 | Plaza de Toros Calafia, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1976-03-27 | W | César Deciga | TKO | 4 | Plaza de Toros Monumental, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| 1976-05-08 | W | Rodolfo Martínez | KO | 9 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1976-06-26 | W | Félix Llanos | KO | 2 | Plaza de Toros Calafia, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
| 1976-08-02 | W | Antonio Paredes | TKO | 2 | Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico |
| 1976-08-28 | W | Paul Ferreri | TKO | 12 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1976-11-13 | W | Waruinge Nakayama | KO | 4 | Estadio General Ángel Flores , Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| 1977-02-05 | W | Fernando Cabanela | TKO | 3 | Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1977-04-23 | W | Alfonso Zamora | TKO | 4 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1977-10-29 | W | Danilo Batista | KO | 6 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1977-12-02 | W | Juan Francisco Rodríguez | TKO | 5 | Palacio de los Deportes , Madrid, Spain |
| 1978-02-25 | W | Alberto Dávila | TKO | 8 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1978-04-22 | W | Andres Hernández | TKO | 13 | Roberto Clemente Coliseum , San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1978-06-09 | W | Emilio Hernández | KO | 4 | Caesars Palace , Sports Pavilion, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1978-09-30 | W | Rudy González | TKO | 4 | Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| 1978-10-28 | L | Wilfredo Gómez | TKO | 5 | Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1979-03-10 | W | John Kodjo Mensah | KO | 3 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1979-05-01 | W | Celso Chairez | TKO | 5 | Sam Houston Coliseum , Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| 1979-06-03 | L | Lupe Pintor | SD | 15 | Caesars Palace, Sports Pavilion, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1986-02-25 | W | Adam García | MD | 4 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1986-04-12 | W | Jose de la Dora | KO | 3 | Zacapu, Michoacán, Mexico |
| 1986-05-05 | W | Héctor Nápoles | KO | 2 | Auditorio Municipal, Torreon, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico |
| 1986-05-23 | W | Jesus Muñiz | UD | 10 | Aragon Ballroom , Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1986-07-19 | W | Alejandro García | KO | 2 | Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico |
| 1986-09-13 | W | Gerardo Esparza | KO | 5 | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| 1986-11-21 | W | Edward Rodriquez | TKO | 3 | Civic Auditorium , San Jose, California, U.S. |
| 1986-12-13 | W | Alex Galván | TKO | 7 | Convention Center , Fresno, California, U.S. |
| 1987-02-20 | W | Francis Childs | KO | 4 | Civic Auditorium, San Jose, California, U.S. |
| 1987-05-05 | W | John Boyd | TKO | 5 | Sports Arena , Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 1987-06-19 | W | Tony Montoya | TKO | 3 | Civic Auditorium, San Jose, California, U.S. |
| 1987-08-15 | W | Richard Savage | TKO | 5 | Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| 1987-10-16 | L | Jeff Fenech | TD | 4 | Hordern Pavilion , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| 1988-02-29 | L | Daniel Zaragoza | TKO | 10 | Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
Showing 70 of 70 recorded fights · last updated 2026-10-15. Imported record tables are not independently verified and may be incomplete. Early-era logs include newspaper decisions (NWS), which are not counted in the official totals above.
Record notes
Fight record last retrieved: 2026-10-11. Title histories remain subject to archival review.
Historical-era totals differ between record-keeping conventions (newspaper decisions, exhibitions).
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