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Below is a list of National Amateur Boxing Lightweight Champions, also known as United States Amateur Champions, along with the state or region which they represented.The weight class was contested at 135 pounds between 1888 and 1951.
Castro was born and raised in Fresno, California. [3] His mother, Lorena Camacho, was born in Mexicali, Mexico and raised in Fresno, Ca., while his father, Tony Castro, is a Salvadoran refugee from San Miguel. [3] He started training as a boxer under his father at the age of four. [3]
During his amateur career, Ruiz boxed to a 105–5 record [4] [7] ... California against 36 year old German boxer Alexander Dimitrenko (41-4, 26 KOs) in a ten-round bout.
Donaire's father was an amateur boxer who competed in the U.S. in the early 1990s. His paternal grandfather was born in Hawaii, and this gave Donaire American citizenship under the principle of jus Sanguinis. [15] In 1993, at the age of eleven, Donaire joined his father in Van Nuys, California. They later lived in San Leandro, California.
His father was a boxer and started him boxing at the age of eight with trainer Hector Rodríguez. At 16, he had "about 200 amateur bouts" before losing interest and quitting. In 2001 at 20 he got back into boxing and after only three months of training managed to win the National Golden Gloves at the Light Heavyweight division.
USA Boxing, formerly known as the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, has governed amateur and Olympic boxing in the United States since 1978. [6] USA Boxing officially recognized women's boxing in 1993, becoming the first organization to do so in the world with a fight between Dallas Malloy & Heather Poyner in Lynwood, Washington.
Pete Ranzany (born April 6, 1952 Pete Ronzoni in Sacramento, California) was an amateur boxer who represented the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1973. He defeated future world welterweight champion Carlos Palomino at the 1972 Olympic Trials, but lost to eventual gold medalist Sugar Ray Seales in the finals.