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Juan Manuel López Rivera (born June 30, 1983), often known as Juanma Lopez, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2019. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO junior featherweight title from 2008 to 2009, and the WBO featherweight title from 2010 to 2011.
Juan Manuel López vs Rafael Márquez, billed as Puerto Rico vs. Mexico, was a professional boxing match contested on November 6, 2010 , for the WBO featherweight championship. [1] The fight was highly anticipated due to the history of competition between Mexican boxers and those from Puerto Rico .
This win brought Concepcion to a potential fight against Puerto Rican sensation Juan Manuel López. [2] Bernabe Concepcion fought for the WBO featherweight championship again on July 10, 2010. This time, he took on Juan Manuel Lopez who won the belt from Luevano. In the opening round, Concepcion was floored by Lopez but rose back up to respond ...
The first event featured a fight between Enrique Chaffardet and Al Clemens as the main event, which was declared a draw by the judges. [10] New stadiums were built in Bayamón, Caguas, Mayagüez, Ponce, Aguadilla and San Juan. [10] The first Puerto Rican to win a world championship was Sixto Escobar, who won it on June 26, 1934.
The fight was the first of two non-tournament bout of the Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward defends his WBA super world super middleweight title for the second time. November 27 – Juan Manuel Márquez defeats Michael Katsidis by ninth-round TKO. Katsidis was competitive throughout the fight and even scored a knockdown on Márquez in the ...
In his next fight, he was scheduled to challenge undefeated WBO Featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez on September 18, 2010, however, the fight had to be postponed by several weeks when Márquez suffered a thumb injury which prevented him from training. Márquez would ultimately lose the bout by 8th-round TKO after he was unable to continue ...
Garcia was stripped of his WBO featherweight title for failing to make weight in a title defence against Juan Manuel López in June 2013. Salido was matched up against Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz for the vacant title. The fight took place on October 12, 2013, on the undercard of the Bradley-Marquez PPV. Salido stopped Cruz in the seventh ...
Vázquez's first world championship fight was scheduled for February 27, 2010, in Bayamón's Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum. His opponent was former WBO Super Flyweight titlist, Marvin Sonsona, with the WBO Super Bantamweight World Championship left vacant by Juan Manuel López being in play.