Evidence for
The Final Round of Francisco Bejines

Companion notes

Francisco Bejines

The documentary record establishes that Francisco Bejines boxed Alberto Davila on September 1, 1983, at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for a vacant WBC interim bantamweight title. The same record shows he was hurt in the final round, received emergency medical care, and died on September 4, 1983.

The Paper Trail & Official Records

The available record is anchored by contemporary fight reporting and later reference accounts that agree on the core facts: Bejines met Alberto Davila in Los Angeles on September 1, 1983, in a sanctioned title bout for the vacant WBC interim bantamweight crown. The sources identify the Olympic Auditorium as the venue and place the contest within the formal championship structure, which matters because it distinguishes a regulated professional bout from rumor, retrospective dramatization, or informal retellings. That basic documentary backbone is consistent across the records. [S1], [S2]

The same materials also identify the principal officiating and competitive context. Bejines was ahead on two of three scorecards before the final round began, a detail that comes from the ring-side scoring record as summarized in the sources, not from after-the-fact mythmaking. This is important for provenance: it confirms the bout was competitive up to the last round and that the decisive turning point occurred late, under the supervision of the referee and judges assigned to the championship fight. [S1], [S2]

Forensic Chronology & Turning Points

The documented chronology is narrow but clear. During the opening moments of the final round, Davila landed a left jab followed by a hard right that dropped Bejines. The referee, Waldemar Schmidt, stopped the bout after Bejines attempted to rise, ending the contest in the ring rather than by later administrative reversal. The sources do not describe a disputed stoppage; they describe a sudden final-round collapse after a scored lead, which is the key turning point in the official timeline. [S2]

After the fight, the record shows an immediate medical response: Bejines was treated at California Hospital and then transferred by air to Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. Those actions are the most concrete post-fight medical facts available here, and they establish that his condition was serious enough to require emergency hospital care and transfer. The timeline ends with his death on September 4, 1983, three days after the bout, which the sources state directly and without qualification. [S1], [S2]

Evidentiary Boundaries & Negative Findings

What can be established from the captured records is limited but sufficient for a public record layer: the date, venue, title status, scoring snapshot, final-round knockdown, emergency treatment, transfer, and death date. What cannot be established here is a more granular medical causation narrative beyond the sources’ general descriptions of injury and treatment. The record supports that Bejines died after the fight, but it does not independently supply a full forensic pathology report or a terminal diagnosis beyond the documented sequence. [S1], [S2]

Equally important, the sources do not support sensationalized allegations. There is no documented basis here for claims that the bout was murder, intentional assault, or anything other than a sanctioned championship fight that ended in a stoppage after a knockdown. Nor do the records adjudicate culpability beyond the normal sporting and medical facts already noted. The evidentiary boundary is therefore straightforward: the fight was official, the injury was real, and the death was documented, but broader accusatory claims remain unproven on this record. [S1], [S2]

Source key

The associated evidence packet contains visible source URLs, source roles and the complete claim ledger.