Gerald Hayes (boxer)
Gerald Hayes was an American professional journeyman boxer in the Bantamweight, Featherweight and Junior Lightweight divisions. Having fought 50 fights, he faced eight world champions and 4 International Boxing Hall of Fame member boxers during his career. These were Lupe Pintor, Bobby Chacon, Rocky Lockridge, Alexis Arguello, Freddie Pendleton, Marcos Villasana, Juan Laporte, and Eusebio Pedroza. Pintor, Chacon, Arguello and Pedroza are all members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Hayes beat Pendleton and Laporte, who was, at the time, the World Boxing Council world Featherweight champion, by ten-rounds decisions in non-title fights, and dropped Pedroza, the World Boxing Association world featherweight champion at the time of their contest too, in round three before being stopped in the tenth by the Panamanian at the Centro de Convenciones Atlapa on Panama City, Panama, on June 23, 1984, in another non-title match.
Hayes also fought several contenders and boxers who fought unsuccessfully for world titles, including Derrik Holmes, Bashew Sibaca in South Africa, Jorge Alvarado, James Martinez, Bernard Taylor twice, James Busceme, Carmelo Negron and Richard Savage. He held wins over Sibaca and Negron.