Editing Sixto Escobar (section)

==Retirement, death and legacy==
[[File:Escobar Statue.jpg|thumb|Statue of Sixto Escobar, located in front of the Sixto Escobar Stadium in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico]]
After his military service, Escobar confronted problems to meet the bantamweight's limit and retired.<ref name="p.">Fonseca et al., p.</ref> He became a spokesman for a liquor brand and relocated to New York temporally, with his family. Subsequently, he returned to Puerto Rico where he worked selling liquor in bars. In May 1947, Escobar and Jiménez Sicardó co-promoted a fight with the intention of bringing fans back to boxing.<ref name="p.30">Fonseca et al., p.30</ref> In the main event, Diego Sosa was matched against Francisco Colón García. Escobar was inducted into the [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]]'s Boxing Hall of Fame in 1950.<ref name="p.30"/> Escobar continued in his job as a liquor salesperson, during which it was common for liquor salesmen to drink a little bit of the product which they sold in front of potential customers.  This contributed to the development of Escobar's alcoholic tendencies.<ref name="p.30"/> His alcoholism would later combine with his diabetes and contribute to his death when he was 66 years old. Weeks before his death, Escobar participated in his last ceremony, where Diego Suárez, president of [[V. Suarez & Co.|V. Suárez & Company]]. gave him a recognition.<ref name="p.30"/>
[[File:Auditorio Sixto Escobar, PR-684, Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.jpg|thumb|Auditorio Sixto Escobar in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico]]
After his death, the town of Barceloneta honored his memory by a statue. His remains are interred at Cementerio Municipal Viejo in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, according to a memorial written to honor his life. Escobar became the first world boxing champion in history to have a statue in his honor.<ref name="p.30"/> On June 9, 2002, Escobar was inducted into the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ibhof.com/escobar.htm| title=Sixto Escobar| publisher=[[International Boxing Hall of Fame]]| access-date=October 11, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080704111444/http://www.ibhof.com/escobar.htm |archive-date = July 4, 2008}}</ref> He became the fourth Puerto Rican to receive this distinction and the first to be included in the "Old Timers" section.<ref name="p.30"/> In March 2005, a second statue of Estobar was unveiled at the [[Estadio Sixto Escobar]] in San Juan.<ref name="p.30"/> Among the celebrities that attended the ceremony were former boxing world champions [[Julian Solís]] and [[Alfredo Escalera]]. This statue's location served as a remembrance tribute during the 94th anniversary of Escobar's birth, when a flower crown was placed at its feet.<ref name="Escobar vive!">{{cite news| url=http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/boxeo/accion_deportiva/viva_la_figura_de_escobar/41668| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224012/http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/boxeo/accion_deportiva/viva_la_figura_de_escobar/41668| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 3, 2016| title=Viva la figura de Escobar| author=Carlos González| newspaper=Primera Hora| language=es| date=March 24, 2007| access-date=October 10, 2008}}</ref>  During this date, an activity was presented by Puerto Rico's House of Boxing in the library of the ''Pabellón de la Fama del Deporte Puertorriqueño''.<ref name="Escobar vive!"/> Among those who attended the ceremony  were Solís, Escalera and [[Iván Calderón (boxer)|Iván Calderón]].<ref name="Escobar vive!"/> On this date, People Inc. presented a documentary covering his life, which was donated to the venue.<ref name="Escobar vive!"/> Several buildings and streets were named after Escobar posthumously, including the ''Auditorio Sixto Escobar''. The house where he lived was later turned into a library and museum bearing his name.<ref name="p.29"/>

In 2019 Sixto Escobar was posthumously inducted to the Puerto Rico Veterans Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.opv.pr.gov/salon-de-la-fama/salon-de-la-fama | title=Salón de la Fama }}</ref>