De Oliveira, Servilliu

Cervilio de Oliveira was born on May 6, 1948 in the city of Sao Paulo . He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of fifteen, was trained at the local boxing gym “Karaku”. Already in 1966 he began to show good results in prestigious tournaments, and in 1967 he won the Brazilian flyweight championship. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City - he managed to get to the stage of the semi-finals here, after which he unanimously lost to the Mexican Ricardo Delgado , who eventually became the Olympic champion.

Having received a bronze Olympic medal, De Oliveira for some time remained in the main team of the national team, but in 1969 he decided to try himself among professionals and left the team. Over the next two years, he spent many successful fights, won the Brazilian flyweight title, and won the vacant South American champion belt in the same weight category. However, in December 1971, after a fight with an American, Tony Moreno, doctors diagnosed him with retinal detachment , and, in order not to lose his sight, the athlete's career had to be completed.

Despite the dangerous diagnosis, in 1977 Oliveira still returned to the ring and spent two more professional fights. Thus, in his track record of 17 battles, and all 17 ended in victory (including 9 ahead of schedule). After completing his sports career, he worked for a long time as a boxing trainer, among his students such famous fighters as the Brazilian champion Adailton de Jesus and the world champion Valdemere Pereira . Along with coaching, Servilio de Oliveira regularly participated in demonstration matches, for example, in 1996, he held a demonstration fight against compatriot Eder Joffre, with whom he once competed in the national team.

• Cervilio de Oliveira (eng.) - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
• Cervilio de Oliveira - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com