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Renato Moraes Rating 4
Brazil Light Heavyweight 1961-68
20 wins / 14 losses / 4 draws / 12 KO
Birthplace: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto
Moraes fought middle to top competition throughout his career. He started out with a 10 round decision win over Hugo Medina(24-8-4) then lost a 12 round decision in his very next fight against Hiram Campos for the Bazilian LHW Title. Campos won his next 2 fights to Hugo Medina and then lost 3 of his last 4 career fight. Renato meanwhile went on to win 19 more fights but never again fought for a title.
Renato compiled a 19-6-2 record in the first five years. Besides the Medina win, other victories were over Ottavio Panunzi twice, Giulio Rinaldi, Helmut Ball, Federico Friso, Johnny Halafihi, Mariano Echevarria, Jack Bodell, Moussa Sangaree, Albert Duscha, Alfredo Vogrig twice, Johnny Otto, Johnny Ould, and Carl Gizzi. He fought draws with Vogrig, French middleweight Michel Diouf(43-32-6,20KO), and Giulio Saraudi. He fought Freddy Mack to a 7 round no contest when the bout was halted and called a no contest. Disgusted fans littered the ring with debris.
In that same time span he lost fights to Freddy Mack, Johnny Halafihi, Piero Del Papa, Jose Angel Manzur(31-33-14,13KO) who held the Argentinian LHW Title a couple years previous to fighting Moraes.
After defeating Carl Gizzi in early September 1966 things started going south for Moraes. Two weeks after winning the 8 round decision over Gizzi, Renato lost a 10 round decision to Jack Bodell. It was the start of a 1-8-2 skid over the remainder of his career. Other losses were to Luis Folledo, Nino Benvenuti, Billy Gray, Johnny Persol, Jurgen Blin, Miguel Angel Paez and Ramon Avenamar Peralta. He managed draws with Ray Patterson and Benito Canal. His only win was a 10 round decision over Mariano Echevarria in May 1967. A dissappointing end to what had been a pretty decent career going.
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