Career
He now lives in Blacktown, Sydney,
Ricardo fought in the bantamweight division. Ricardo was one of the four famous Fortaleza brothers in the Philippines, they were all famous in the sport of boxing. The four consisted of Ricardo "Ric", Reynaldo "Rey", Renato "Rene" and Rogelio "Roger".
Although Ric was the most successful of the four, Rey, Rene and Roger were also successful boxers.
Ricardo represented the Philippines at the, losing to Alfonso Zamora in the preliminaries. Fortaleza became the Philippines boxing team coach from 1976 to 1993.
He led the Philippine team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, the President"s Cup in Jakarta, the King"s Cup in Bangkok, the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore, the second World Boxing championships in Belgrade, the Asian Games in Bangkok, the Inter-Cup tournament in Schriesheim (Germany), the Acropolis Cup in Athens, and several other international tournaments. Fortaleza also trained boxers from different parts of the world.
He helped introduced the sport of Amateur Boxing in Oman, he was assigned at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex.
He coached the Oman boxing team between 1986 and 1990, and led the team to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, of Korea. Fortaleza acted as boxing coach at Taipei College of Physical Education in Taiwan. Fortaleza migrated with his family to in 2000.
He volunteered at the Sydney Olympic games in boxing tournaments.
Gold medal - 1st Asian Youth Amateur Boxing TournamentTokyo Japan
Gold medal - 6th Asian Games - Bangkok Thailand
Silver medal - 1971 Asian Boxing Champhionship - Tehran Iran
Olympian -
Philippines" Amateur Boxer of the year - 1970, 1971 and 1972.