Loreto Garza

Loreto Garza retained his World Boxing Assn. junior-welterweight championship when challenger Vinny Pazienza was disqualified after picking him up and throwing him in the 11th round Saturday night. Referee Larry Rozadilla of Los Angeles, who had taken two points away from Pazienza for fouls earlier in the fight, said later he disqualified Pazienza for "dirty fighting." "I disqualified him for consistently dirty fighting, for disregarding my orders over and over. . . .

Loreto Garza retained his World Boxing Assn. junior-welterweight championship when challenger Vinny Pazienza was disqualified after picking him up and throwing him in the 11th round Saturday night. Referee Larry Rozadilla of Los Angeles, who had taken two points away from Pazienza for fouls earlier in the fight, said later he disqualified Pazienza for "dirty fighting." "I disqualified him for consistently dirty fighting, for disregarding my orders over and over. . . .

American Loreto Garza won the World Boxing Assn. super-lightweight title on points over Argentine Juan Martin Coggi in Nice, France.

Tony Lopez and Loreto Garza, two former world champions, began boxing comebacks with knockouts Friday night at Sacramento. Lopez, 38-3-1 and the two-time International Boxing Federation junior lightweight champion, made a successful lightweight debut when he knocked out Ditau Molefyane of South Africa at 2:41 of the eighth round. Garza (29-2-1) stopped Armando Castro of Mexico with a left hook and a right to the midsection at 2:22 of the seventh round.

Loreto Garza and Vinny Pazienza, two junior-welterweights who aspire to fight super-lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez, will meet in a small-scale pay-per-view boxing show at Arco Arena tonight. Garza and Pazienza figure to attract about 8,000 tonight, which would figure as California's--and Sacramento's--second-largest boxing gate this year. On Sept. 22, Garza stablemate Tony Lopez drew a state-record gate of $601,000 and a crowd of 15,000-plus when he beat Jorge Paez at Arco Arena.

Loreto Garza and Vinny Pazienza, two junior-welterweights who aspire to fight super-lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez, will meet in a small-scale pay-per-view boxing show at Arco Arena tonight. Actually, Pazienza, should he beat Garza, might even settle for a fight with Ray Mancini in Atlantic City, N.J., for North America's "Italian-American championship." There's no such title, but in boxing all you need to do to create one is print up the posters.

Edwin Rosario of Puerto Rico scored a third-round technical knockout to win the World Boxing Assn. junior welterweight title from Loreto Garza Friday night in Sacramento. Rosario (37-4) knocked Garza down twice in the first round and twice more in the third before referee Larry Rozadilla stopped the fight with 1:09 left in the round. The title was the fourth won by Rosario, who weighed 139 1/2 pounds. Garza, 139, of Sacramento, fell to 28-2-1. He was making his second defense of the title.

Shirley Mills Hanson Child actress in 'Grapes of Wrath' Shirley Mills Hanson, 83, a former child actress who played young Ruthie Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath," director John Ford's classic 1940 film based on the John Steinbeck novel, died March 31 of complications of pneumonia at a convalescent hospital in Arcadia, said stepdaughter Deniece Zwick. Born April 8, 1926, in Tacoma, Wash., Hanson moved with her family to Southern California in 1937 to break into the movies.

A lot of people say they don't understand boxing--or boxers. Why is that? Vinny Pazienza, former International Boxing Federation lightweight champion, who hinted that he would announce his retirement at a news conference Friday in Cranston, R.I., turned the tables on the media and announced that he will fight on. The Associated Press reported that Pazienza's cryptic bobbing and weaving fooled even his family and close associates.

Hector Camacho won most of the early rounds, began to tire at the midway point and then held off a strong-finishing Greg Haugen to win a junior-welterweight grudge match Saturday night on a split decision. Camacho, who lost a close decision to Haugen in February in Las Vegas, this time won before a crowd of about 5,000 at the Reno/Sparks Convention Center. Camacho lost the first time on a split decision because of a foul, and nearly blew this one, too, on a foul.