Former world champion boxer Juan Jose Estrada
was stabbed to death over the weekend in what was believed to be a family
quarrel in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, authorities said Monday.
Estrada, nicknamed “Dinamita,” won the WBC
International world championship in the super bantamweight division in 1987,
and the WBA title in 1988.
Sources close to the investigation said
Estrada was taken to a pharmacy early Sunday with a stab wound, but died before
an ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital.
“It’s said he had a quarrel at home with some
relatives and that led to one of them wounding him, apparently with a knife,”
an official in charge of the investigation told newsmen.
Jose Manuel Yepiz, a spokesman for the
prosecutor’s office, said no arrests have been made in the case.
After retiring from boxing, Estrada ran into
trouble with the law, and was jailed in 2005 on a drug charge.
At the time of his death, he made a living as
garbage collector.
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