Editing Carlos Zárate (boxer) (section)

===Five year retirement===
Zárate spent five years in retirement, but the temptation of the public adulation boxers receive when they become champions and the aroma of the boxing ring led him back into competition as a boxer. Despite still retaining an acceptable amount of his boxing ability, Zárate was nonetheless, a shadow of what he was before his 5-year retirement. In his return bout in 1986 against Adam García, he won a four-round decision. 11 more victories in a row, all by knockout, including one over then number one world Super Bantamweight challenger Richard Savage (knocked out by Zárate in five in Mexico City), made him the WBC's number one challenger at the Super Bantamweight division once again.<ref>{{cite web |author=Jaliam Break Studios |url=http://www.mademan.com/mm/10-best-mexican-boxers-ever.html |title=10 Best Mexican Boxers Ever &#124; Made Manual |publisher=Mademan.com |date=2010-03-13 |access-date=2012-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219092824/http://www.mademan.com/mm/10-best-mexican-boxers-ever.html |archive-date=2012-12-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

And so, in October 1987, he traveled to Australia to meet the man boxing fans consider to be the greatest Australian world champion of all time: [[Jeff Fenech]]. In a fight contested for Fenech's world Super Bantamweight title, Zárate lost by a four-round technical decision. After Fenech vacated the title soon after to pursue the world Featherweight crown, Zárate and countryman [[Daniel Zaragoza]] met for the vacant world championship belt, but Zárate came back on the losing end once again, being knocked out in the tenth round and finally announcing his retirement for good.

During the 1990s he also became a member of the [[International Boxing Hall Of Fame]], and in 2003, he and [[Wilfredo Gómez]] met at a boxing undercard in Puerto Rico to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their boxing bout.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Carlos_Zarate |title=Carlos Zarate - Boxrec Boxing Encyclopaedia |publisher=Boxrec.com |access-date=2012-11-07}}</ref>

He had a record of 66 wins and 4 losses as a professional boxer, with 63 wins by knockout.

Carlos Zárate was voted as the Greatest Bantamweight Ever in 2014 by the Houston Boxing Hall Of Fame. The HBHOF is a voting body composed entirely of current and former fighters.