Evidence for
Bobby Chacon’s Final Title Win After Valorie Chacon’s Death

Companion notes

Bobby Chacon’s final title win and Valorie Chacon’s death

The public record establishes a clear boxing chronology: Bobby Chacon’s December 11, 1982 victory over Rafael Limón in Sacramento for the WBC super-featherweight title, followed by retrospective reporting that placed Valorie Chacon’s suicide in the same year and connected that loss to Chacon’s own account of the fight. The later journalism also documents Chacon’s decline from brain-damage-related problems, while stopping short of proving any criminal or official causal link between him and his wife’s death.

The Paper Trail & Official Records

The documentary trail is built primarily from contemporary sports reporting, retrospective newspaper coverage, and a preserved fight archive rather than from police or court files. The bout records identify Bobby Chacon and Rafael Limón as meeting on December 11, 1982, at Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, for the WBC super-featherweight title. The fight footage archive and the reference entry align on the venue, date, and championship designation, while the later Los Angeles Times coverage treats the match as Chacon’s defining late-career title win. [S1], [S2], [S4]

The most consequential biographical documentation comes from the Los Angeles Times, which reported in both 1999 and 2016 that Chacon’s later life was marked by serious cognitive and physical decline. Those accounts are not official medical records, but they are important provenance markers because they show how the fight and the family tragedy were framed in mainstream journalism over time. ESPN’s obituary coverage corroborates the broad arc of Chacon’s public reputation as a former champion whose career was shadowed by later health problems. [S2], [S3], [S5]

Forensic Chronology & Turning Points

The established sequence is straightforward. In 1982, Valorie Chacon died by suicide in the family home in Sylmar, according to the Los Angeles Times retrospectives. On December 11, 1982, Bobby Chacon then fought Rafael Limón in Sacramento for the WBC super-featherweight title and won by decision. The reporting consistently presents that bout as the emotional culmination of that year, and it records Chacon’s own statement that he dedicated the fight to his late wife, placing the personal loss and the sporting achievement in the same narrative frame. [S2], [S3], [S4]

That chronology matters because it shows what the record can prove without speculation: a death in 1982, a title bout later that year, and a retrospective dedication attributed to Chacon. The preserved fight archive and the newspaper accounts do not merely repeat legend; they anchor the public memory of the event to a dated contest in Sacramento and to a contemporaneous emotional context described by the boxer himself. The chronology is therefore documentary, not inferential, even when later accounts emphasize tragedy and redemption together. [S1], [S2], [S4]

Evidentiary Boundaries & Negative Findings

The evidentiary boundary is critical: the available sources establish Valorie Chacon’s suicide in 1982, but they do not establish that Bobby Chacon caused it. There is no police report, indictment, charging document, or court filing in the reported material tying him to her death, and no official finding in the cited journalism attributes criminal responsibility to him. The Los Angeles Times relies on retrospective narrative and a quote from Chacon about where he was when she died, which is not the same as independent forensic proof. [S2], [S3]

Likewise, later references to pugilistic dementia and brain-damage-related decline should be read as journalistic medical characterization, not as a formal diagnosis established in the text of the reporting itself. The public record is therefore firm on the boxing result and the fact of Valorie Chacon’s suicide, but limited on causation, intent, and any legal accountability. That distinction is essential for the record: the sources document grief, consequence, and later deterioration, yet they do not convert those facts into adjudicated allegations. [S2], [S3], [S5]

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