The Fast Rise and Tragic Fall of Edwin Valero December 3, 1981- April 19, 2010

By Gabriel Montoya, MaxBoxing.com, Tue, 20 Apr 2010

Internet myth, knockout artist, lightweight champ, southpaw, rising star, husband, father, abusive husband, confessed murderer, and now suicide statistic, mercurial, natural born fighter Edwin “El Inca” or Dinamita” Valero (27-0 with 27 KOs) came and went through the lives of friends, family, and boxing fans like a violent charismatic shooting star. He burned brightly as he passed by and for a brief moment in time his potential brilliance shined upon us. But as is always the case in life, there are two sides to every story.

Over the past year, the troubled prize fighter, with seeming bricks in his hands and a will of steel’s life began to unravel. Years of drug and alcohol abuse alleged by the family of his now deceased 24 year old wife of ten years, Jennifer Yiera, had taken their toll on the troubled soul and a hidden life of spousal abuse, intimidation, hard partying and superstar diva antics began to surface. It was a hidden life that eventually overtook them and ended this past weekend when Valero, checked in with his wife to the Hotel Intercontinental in Valencia, Venezuela. It was there in the early morning hours of April 17 that Valero came downstairs to the lobby and (according to eyewitness accounts) quietly told hotel security that he had murdered his wife. Authorities arrived on the scene within the hour, found the body of Yiera stabbed to death in their hotel room and took Valero into custody.


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