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== == Pro career A native of São Paulo, Jofre, whose nickname was "Rooster of Gold (The Golden Rooster) and" Jofrinho ", made his professional debut in March 23, 1957, by defeating Raul Lopez ] in five rounds. He had a total of twelve fights in 1957, including two each against Lopez, Oswaldo Perez and Ernesto Miranda, against whom Jofre sustained its first two spots of registration: two shifts of ten draws (ties).

He began 1958 by winning four more fights and then, on May 14 that year, he had his first fight abroad, drawing in ten rounds against Ruben Caceres in Montevideo, Uruguay. On November 14, José Smecca became the only man to fall Jofre in his career, Jofre started from a first round knockdown to beat Smecca in seven rounds.

Jofre won eight fights in 1959, including a meeting two times world title challenger Leo Espinoza, and a seventh round TKO in a rematch with Caceres.

On February 19, 1960, he fought Ernesto Miranda for the third time, this time with the South America n Bantamweight title on the line. Jofre Miranda outpointed fifteen rounds to win his first title as a professional. Jofre retained the title with a knockout in three rounds in a fourth fight with Miranda, and after one more victory, he made his debut], defeating top-ranked Challenger ] by knockout in ten in August 16, Los Angeles. Then he defeated the power punching Ricardo Moreno (who later was among boxing of all time best punchers of Ring Magazine), by a knockout in six.

On November 18 of that year, Jofre became world champion when he knocked out the WBA world Bantamweight Champion Eloy Sanchez in six rounds in Los Angeles.

Jofre proved a busy world champion, fighting top notch fighters, both in title commitments and title fight not. From 1960 to 1965, he retained his title against the Piero Rollo Ramon Arias (in Caracas, Venezuela), Johnny Caldwell Germano Marques Jose Medel Katsuyoshi Aoki (in Tokyo), Johnny Jamito (in Manila) and Bernardo Caraballo (in Bogota, ]).

Moreover, he defeated fighters such as Billy Peacock Sadao Yaoita and Fernando Soto in the title does not attack. After the fight with Aoki, Jofre was also recognized as world Bantamweight champion by the WBC, thus becoming the undisputed world champion.

Even his defense against Caraballo, Jofre had the record of longest unbeaten season in the history of boxing since the beginning of his career. This record would be broken soon after by Nino Benvenuti and, much later, by Julio César Chávez.

On May 17, 1965, his streak as an undefeated fighter was shattered when he lost to ] "by a fifteen round split decision in Nagoya, Japan, losing Bantamweight world title. Harada was the only fighter ever Jofre defeat as a professional.

After losing to Harada by unanimous decision in a rematch, held in Tokyo on June 1, 1966, Jofre retired.

In 1969, he made a comeback, beating Rudy Corona by a knockout in six of 26 August. After winning thirteen fights in a row, he challenged for a world title once again: on May 21, 1973, he fought José Legras for the WBC world Featherweight title, in GMT. Jofre became a two division world champion by defeating Legras with a fifteen round unanimous.

Despite winning his second world title, Jofre realized he was nearing the end of the road as far as his boxing career was concerned. He did defeat Frankie Crawford in a case of title and did not defend his title against the World Champion Featherweight Bantamweight world old friend, Vicente Saldivar of Mexico, in a struggle of "super" held in Salvador. Saldivar knocked in four rounds.

After a series of fights against minor opponents, who retired after winning Octavio Famoso Gomez "by a knockout in six of October 8, 1976.

He had a record of 72-2-4 (50 KOs), making it a member of the exclusive group of boxers that won 50 or more fights by knockout.

== == Boxing trainer Jofre has since devoted himself to a boxing trainer in Brazil. He also owns companies such as Supermarkets and others.

Honors == == He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

In 2003, he was ranked as # 85 on the list Ring Magazine 's more than 100 punches of all time.

He is listed as # 19 on the list Ring Magazine's top 80 fighters of the past 80 years.

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