César Soto

César Soto carries the thing I love most about Mexican boxing: a WBC featherweight world title earned the hard way, fists first, out of Ciudad Lerdo in dusty Durango. I have an enduring bias toward Mexican fighters, that relentless forward pressure and willingness to trade pain for territory, and a champion at featherweight has to be especially fearless because everything moves so fast at that weight. Records flatten men like Soto into numbers, but a world belt from a small Durango town is a whole life of discipline compressed into one line. I trust the story those gloves tell more than any stat sheet.

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Name (English)

César Soto

Name (Japanese)

セサール・ソト

Reading

せさーる・そと

Born

September 17, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico

Occupation

boxer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Awards & achievements

• WBC World Featherweight Champion

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar%20Soto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1032038

Tags

• Durango
• boxer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.