Editing Carlos Zárate (boxer) (section)

===WBC Bantamweight championship===
After knocking out former world title challenger Néstor Jiménez in two rounds at [[Mexicali]] to end 1975, the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] made Zárate their number one challenger at the Bantamweight division. So, after beating César Desiga by a knockout in four on March 29, 1976, in [[Monterrey, Mexico|Monterrey]], Zárate was faced on the night of May 8 of that year with defending [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] [[Bantamweight]] Champion [[Rodolfo Martínez]] in [[Los Angeles]]. Zárate became a world Bantamweight champion by knocking his countryman out in the eighth round. Zárate next won two fights by a knockout in the second and then defended it against Paul Ferreri, who lost by knockout in 12 in Los Angeles too. He finished '76 with a four-round knockout over [[Philip Waruinge|Waruinge Nakayama]] in a title defense held at [[Culiacán]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4997&more=1 |title=Ruben Olivares vs. Carlos Zarate: What If? |publisher=Eastsideboxing.com |date=2005-10-22 |access-date=2012-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914155254/http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4997&more=1 |archive-date=2011-09-14 }}</ref>