[citation needed] Carlos Piñango made his professional boxing debut on Sunday, 28 January 1979, beating Hector Pinto by four-rounds decision in Caracas.
[2] Piñango won his first nine contests, four by knockout, setting up an encounter with the 10 wins, 8 losses and one draw Panamanian Jacinto Fuentes, who had previously drawn (tied) and lost once with future three-division world champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame member Wilfredo Gomez.
Pedroza dominated the fight, being ahead on the judges' scorecards (by 60-55, 59-56 and 60-55 on Arlen Bynum's, Carol Polis' and Albert Tremari's cards, respectively) but Piñango was able to hang around until 1 minute and 38 seconds of round seven, when he was knocked-out by the world champion.
That day, at the Concorde Hotel in Santo Domingo, Piñango received his second loss in a row, when beaten by the future three-times world titles challenger by a seventh-round knockout.
Piñango had 43 professional boxing contests, including one that was for the WBA's world featherweight title, and he won 35 of those while losing 8, with 24 wins and 6 losses by knockout.
Among those he trained were Alexander Muñoz (whom he accompanied to Mexico for Muñoz's world title fight against Cristian Mijares),[13] Gilberto Serrano, Lorenzo Parra, Antonio Cermeno (whom Piñango helped beat Wilfredo Vazquez in Vazquez's home-country of Puerto Rico), Felix Machado, Yonfrez Parejo and female boxer Ogleidis Suárez.