A 1972 ENRIQUE PENDER BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT COMMISSIONED BY THE RING MAGAZINE

3 medallions connected by chains and mounted on a red, white, blue and gold ruched belt, the center medallion surmounted by an eagle and reading "WORLD / BANTAMWEIGHT / CHAMPIONSHIP / WON BY / ENRIQUE PINDER / OF / PANAMA," the left reading "OUTPOINTED / RAFAEL HERRERA / OF / MEXICO / IN / 15 ROUNDS," the right reading "IN / PANAMA CITY / PANAMA / JULY 30TH / 1972," housed in presentation case.
Provenance: Sold by Nathaniel and Joan Loubet to Harry Shaffer, Antiquities of the Prize Ring; sold to Jim and Theresa Earle, November 2003.

Enrique Pinder (born 1947) is a Panamanian boxer in the super welterweight division who won the World Bantamweight Championship in 1972 with a unanimous decision over Rafael Herrera. The Ring magazine commissioned this belt to present to him in honor of his achievement, but after the magazine founder Nat Fleischer died in June of 1972, the firm went through reorganization, and the belt was never presented to Pinder. Fleisher's daughter Joan and her husband Nathaniel Loubet inherited the company and its assets, and decades later sold the belt to the trade.