#EDWIN VALERO LAST FIGHT SERIES#

In the ring, Valero shot to fame when he won his first 18 fights by first-round knockout, setting a record that has since been eclipsed by Tyrone Brunson. Police found three stab wounds on Viera's body, but investigators who searched the hotel rooms had yet to find the weapon used in the killing, Flores said. The Attorney General's Office said a prosecutor had asked a court to order Valero jailed but that the judge instead placed him under a restraining order that barred him from going near his wife, a condition he repeatedly violated. When the boxer arrived moments later, he forbade Viera from speaking to the police officer, and spoke threateningly to the officer, prosecutors said in a statement. The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that Valero was detained March 25 on suspicion of assaulting his wife, but his wife told a police officer her injuries were due to a fall.

#EDWIN VALERO LAST FIGHT SERIES#

Police arrested Valero following an argument with a doctor and nurse at the hospital, where his wife was being treated for a series of injuries, including a punctured lung and broken ribs. Last month, Valero was charged with harassing his wife and threatening medical personnel who treated her at a hospital in the western city of Merida. The former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion had been in trouble with the law before. Venezuelans called him 'Inca,' alluding to an Indian warrior, while elsewhere he was called 'Dinamita,' or dynamite.

His all-action style and 27-0 record ' all by knockouts ' earned him a reputation as a tough, explosive crowd-pleaser. The fighter was a household name in Venezuela and had a huge image of President Hugo Chavez tattooed on his chest, along with the country's yellow, blue and red flag. The boxer left the hotel room around dawn Sunday and allegedly told security he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said. Valero was detained after police found the body of his 24-year-old wife in a hotel in Valencia.

Prosecutors said Sunday night that they had planned to charge Valero in the killing. The 28-year-old was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife. Valero still showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 1:30 a.m., Flores said. He said Valero was found by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in north-central Carabobo state. The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself from a bar in his cell early Monday, Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters.

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