Chucho Castillo vs Ernie Cruz 6 29 1969

Six months previous to this fight against Ernie Cruz of the Philippines, Mexico's Jesus "Chucho" Castillo made his first attempt to challenge for the bantamweight world title against then champion Lionel Rose, an Aboriginal Australian. The appears by all accounts to have been extremely competetive and many ringsiders scored the fight as such, as did the judges. When Castillo was announced to have lost by a split decision, the famed "Fabulous Forum" in Inglewood, California, erupted into what sounds to have been a truly legitimate, full scale riot. The following fight on the card needed to be stopped in 3rd round on account of the continual steady stream of various, and quite numerous, objects flying into the ring,
As for this fight, all within a time span of but two yrs, Jesus "Chucho" Castillo would fight for the same title 3 times, winning once, suffering defeat twice, and all three of these title fights fought against the same man, Ruben "Mr. KO/El Puas" Olivares.