Ángel Espinosa

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Ángel Espinosa (right) fighting with Henry Maske in 1988

Ángel Espinosa Capó (born October 2, 1966 in Holguín , Cuba ; † April 12, 2017 in Hialeah Gardens , Florida , United States ) was a Cuban amateur boxer.

Career

The hard hitting southpaw was one of the outstanding semi-middle and middleweights of the 1980s and feared opponent of the Germans. He beat Sven Ottke , Henry Maske (three wins in three matches), Enrico Richter and Michael Timm . He also beat the US amateur world champion Darin Allen three times.

In 1983 he was in Santo Domingo junior world champion light welterweight, he defeated there in the final the later Olympic champion and professional world champion Meldrick Taylor by k. o. in the second round.

In 1986 in Reno, he became an amateur world champion as a light middleweight. At the World Cup in 1989 he won only silver in the middleweight division in Moscow, where he defeated Sven Ottke in the semi-finals, but was defeated in the final against Andrei Kurnjawka from the Soviet Union .

He achieved further successes at the chemistry cup in Halle (Saale) , which he won three times between 1986 and 1988. In 1987 he also prevailed at the World Cup tournament in Belgrade with a final victory over Mask and won the Pan American Games in Indianapolis with a final victory against Darin Allen . Between 1984 and 1991 he won the Cuban championship title seven times.

Since Cuba for political reasons, both the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , and the Games in 1988 in Seoul boycotted, left him in his most powerful time an Olympic participation fails, which is also the Olympic title Maskes favored 1988th In 1984 the Cubans organized a " friendship tournament" for the boycotting nations as a substitute in Havana , which Espinosa was able to win in its weight class, including by defeating Michael Timm . He played his only Olympic Games in 1992 in Barcelona as a light heavyweight, but was poorly prepared and a shadow of times gone by. He reached the quarter-finals and lost there on points against Poland's Wojciech Bartnik . This was his last fight.

Espinosa worked as a boxing trainer for teenagers in Miami from 2010 . He was found dead in his boxing hall in Hialeah Gardens on the morning of April 12, 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis Felipe Rojas: Cayó un campeón de Cuba: Ángel Espinosa pierde el último round de su vida. In: martinoticias.com. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, April 14, 2017, accessed April 17, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Espinosa, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Espinosa Capó, Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION cuban boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Holguín , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2017
Place of death Hialeah Gardens , Florida , United States