Edwin Rosario

Edwin Rosario is one of those fighters I find hard to read on paper alone. Born in 1963 and a multi-time world lightweight and super lightweight champion across the WBC and WBA, he clearly had the talent to sit among the era's best. What stays with me is that 1986 Ring magazine Comeback of the Year nod, which tells me his career had a real fall-and-rise arc rather than a smooth climb. His induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006 confirms the legacy, but the 1997 death at just 34 leaves me with a quiet sense of how short some of these stories run.

Name (English)

Edwin Rosario

Name (Japanese)

エドウィン・ロサリオ

Reading

えどうぃん・ろさりお

Born

March 15, 1963 – December 1, 1997

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

Origin

Toa Baja, United States

Height

168 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• 1986 The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year
• 2006 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• WBC World Lightweight Champion
• WBA World Lightweight Champion
• WBA World Super Lightweight Champion

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Rosario
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1294939

Tags

• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.