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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 ...
Paul Bamba (15 August 1989 – 27 December 2024) was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He won the WBA Gold cruiserweight title after defeating Rogelio Medina [ 6 ] on 21 December 2024. [ 7 ]
Xander Yarob Zayas Castro (born September 5, 2002) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer.In an amateur career that spanned from 2007 to 2018 he had more than 130 bouts, [2] winning eleven national championship tournaments [3] including the 2018 U.S. Youth National Championships.
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 (September 9, 1936 – June 13, 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]
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.
Boxing record: Total fights: 23: ... Subriel Ahmed Matías Matthew (born March 31, 1992) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the IBF junior welterweight ...
He is frequently mentioned among the best Puerto Rican boxers of all time by sports journalists and analysts, along with Félix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto, Wilfred Benítez, Esteban De Jesús, Edwin Rosario, and Carlos Ortíz. [2] His seventeen consecutive knockouts in championship defenses as a junior featherweight is a record for all boxing ...