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Joe Cortez
American boxer
Joe Cortez (born October 13, 1945) is an American former boxing referee who has officiated in many important world title bouts.[1] He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011.
Biography
Cortez is of Puerto Rican descent.[2] He had a successful amateur boxing career, winning various Golden Gloves tournaments from 1960 to 1962. In 1963, Joe turned pro at the age of eighteen.
He had a record of ten wins and one defeat as a professional boxer, and the loss was to Georgie Foster from Ohio. He retired from boxing after only eleven professional fights. Cortez moved to Puerto Rico in 1969, working at The El Conquistador Hotel there; he worked his way up to Executive Assistant manager.
Joe cortez biography
Living there, he became fluent in Spanish. In 1977, he moved back to New York where he started work as a Casino Operations Manager for the El San Juan Hotel, one of the three properties in Puerto Rico.
Beginning in the 1977, Cort