Career
A fine boxer, Navarrete had a good talent and was known for his hard-hitting punches. Known to be a slugger and one of the greatest Filipino knockout artists. In his second title defense four months later in Las Vegas, Nevada, Navarrete took on Rafael "Bazooka" Limón.
Thereafter, Navarrete"s career went downhill and he would never again figure in big-money fights.
Sometime in the mid-"80s, he was convicted of sexual assault and served three years in a Hawaiian prison. After his release, Navarrete went back to the Philippines and embarked on several comeback fights.
In one of those fights, he would exact revenge on his old tormentor Limón, winning by decision in a 10-round bout. A series of losses against local fighters and unranked contenders forced him to retire for good.
Navarrete currently lives in General Santos City.
A series of failed relationships with different women gave him a total of seven children. Rolando Junior, who fights under his mother"s name Rolando Dy is currently a professional mixed martial artist. He still trains nowadays with a heavy bag in his home.
He spent three years in a United States prison for rape.
Navarrete was also recently involved in various police complaints for wife battery and drugs. On February 14, 2008, Rolando Navarette, "The Bad Boy from Dadiangas" was pronounced out of danger, after being stabbed in the neck by Racman Saliling, tenant at the boarding house he owns in Bula, General Santos City, using ice pick.
Navarette was also involved in two previous attacks: in 2005, he was hit with a steel pipe by a female neighbor. In 2006, a security guard clubbed his leg with a shotgun at a fishport.
