Mexican Joe Rivers

Mexican Joe Rivers (born Jose Ybarra, March 19, 1892 – June 26, 1957) was a lightweight boxer whose ring career lasted from 1910 to 1923.

Rivers was born in Los Angeles on March 19, 1892, to Andrew Ybarra and Mary Estrada.

[1] On February 22, 1911, he defeated Jimmy Reagan, a former Bantamweight World Champion by a technical knockout in the thirteenth round of a scheduled twenty.

Welch declared Wolgast the winner by a technical knockout, in one of the most controversial decisions in the history of boxing.

[8] Slert later died in 1918 and Rivers remarried in 1924 to Opal Dean Case in Orange County, California.

Rivers was cited incorrectly to have died in 1918 when, after enlisting in World War I, the SS Tuscania was torpedoed.