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First Puerto Rican boxing sports writer to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He served Puerto Rican boxing for more than 50 years as a writer and eventual commissioner. 13 Miguel Cotto: 2022 He is a multiple-time world champion, and the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes, from light ...
Cotto was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Puerto Rican parents, and relocated to Caguas, Puerto Rico, with his family before he turned two. [5] There are several figures linked to boxing in his family, including his late father Miguel Cotto Sr., his brother José Miguel Cotto, his second cousin Abner Cotto, and his uncle and former boxing trainer Evangelista Cotto.
Subriel Ahmed Matías Matthew (born March 31, 1992) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the IBF junior welterweight title from 2023 to 2024. [3]
Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He debuted as a professional on Thursday, July 17, 1930, at the Victory Garden Stadium in San Juan, knocking out Luis Emilio Perez in two rounds as part of a show headlined by a bout between José Quelin Angulo and Octavio Almonte (a fight which Angulo won by second-round knockout).
Amanda Serrano (born October 9, 1988) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and mixed martial artist. [2] As a boxer, she is the unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBO title since 2019, IBO title since 2021 and the WBA title since 2023. She held the IBF title between 2022 and 2024.
Paul Bamba (15 August 1989 – 27 December 2024) was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. [4] [5] In his last fight he won the WBA Gold cruiserweight title after defeating Rogelio Medina [6] on 21 December 2024. [7]
Wilfred "Wilfredo" Benítez (born September 12, 1958) is an American-born Puerto Rican former professional boxer and the youngest world champion in the sport's history. . Earning his first of three career world titles in separate weight divisions at the age of seventeen, he is best remembered as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities, along with his fights with ...
Carlos Ortiz (9 September 1936 – 13 June 2022) was a Puerto Rican professional boxer.He held world titles in lightweight and light welterweight weight divisions.Along with Félix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto, Wilfredo Gómez, Héctor Camacho, José Torres, Edwin Rosario and Wilfred Benítez, Ortiz is considered among the best Puerto Rican boxers of all time by sports journalists and analysts. [1]