Career
Palacio fought 11 years before surprisingly winning the WBO title in England with an 8 round KO of British star Colin McMillan on 26 September 1992. He was very much the underdog against the flashy 23-1 McMillan but Palacios had his night of glory that day in London. He was arrested on drug trafficking charges in the United States a year after and spent four years in jail.
Palacios died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in a hospital in Medellín, Colombia on the 14th November 2003.
At the time of his death, Ruben Palacios was a few weeks short of his 41st birthday.
