Guty Espadas

Infobox Boxer


name=Guty Espadas
realname=Gustavo Hernan Espadas Cruz
nickname=
weight=Flyweight
nationality= flagicon|Mexico Mexican
birth_date=Birth date and age|1954|12|20|mf=y
birth_place=Merida, Mexico
death_date=
death_place=
style=Orthodox
total=50
wins=39
KO=28
losses=6
draws=5
no contests=0|

Guty Espadas was a Mexican boxer who won the World Boxing Association flyweight championship. he was born on December 20, 1954, to Hernan Espadas Cruz and Isabel Cruz Espadas. [Citation
last = Amer
first = Eduardo
title = WBA Fly King, Espadas, is Yucatan Idol
journal = The Ring
volume = 66, no. 5
page = 26
date = June 1977]

He became a professional boxer in 1971 and won the WBA flyweight title on October 2, 1976, when he knocked out Alfonso Lopez in thirteen rounds. He defended the title four times before losing it to Betulio Gonzalez on August 12, 1978, via a fifteen-round majority decision. He challenged twice more for world titles, although he was unsuccessful in both tries. After his final try, a tenth-round knockout loss to Payao Poontarat in 1984, he retired.

His son, Guty Espadas Jr., was a boxing champion in the featherweight division.

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