Éverton Lopes

Éverton Lopes
Data
Birth Name	Éverton dos Santos Lopes
Weight class	lightweight
nationality	Brazil
birthday	August 8, 1988
place of birth	Salvador da Bahia
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.73 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	6th
Victories	6th
Knockout victories	2

Éverton Lopes medal table
Boxing
Brazil
World championships
bronze	2013	Light welterweight
gold	2011	Light welterweight
Pan American Games
bronze	2011	Light welterweight
silver	2007	lightweight
Pan American Championships
gold	2013	Light welterweight
bronze	2009	lightweight
South American Games
gold	2014	Light welterweight
silver	2010	lightweight
silver	2006	lightweight

Éverton Dos Santos Lopes (* 8. August 1988 in Salvador da Bahia ) is a former Brazilian professional boxer in the lightweight . As an amateur, he was world champion in 2011 and an Olympian in 2008 and 2012.

Amateur career

National

Éverton Lopes is the Brazilian lightweight champion in 2006, 2007 and 2009, as well as the Brazilian light welterweight champion in 2012.

America

In 2006 he won the gold medal in the lightweight at the Pan American Junior Championships in Argentina and the silver medal at the South American Games , which were also held in Argentina , when he was only defeated in the final against the future professional world champion Darleys Pérez .

At the Pan American Championships in Brazil in 2007 he also won the silver medal after a final defeat against reigning world champion Yordenis Ugás , where he had also defeated the later runner-up world champion José Pedraza in the semifinals .

In 2009 he won a bronze medal at the Pan American Championships in Mexico when he lost in the semi-finals to the eventual professional world champion Francisco Vargas . In 2010 he won the silver medal again at the South American Games in Colombia after losing to César Villarraga in the final .

At the Pan American Games in Mexico in 2011, he was eliminated in the semifinals against world and Olympic champion Roniel Iglesias , but won the gold medal at the 2013 Pan American Championships in Chile . He also won the gold medal at the 2014 South American Games in Chile.

World Championships / Olympic Games

He played his first World Cup in 2007 in Chicago , but lost in the first fight against Urantschimegiin Mönch-Erdene .

In the American Olympic qualification in Guatemala in 2008 , he was able to buy a ticket for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing by winning against Carlos Sánchez, Ricardo Garcia, Jesus Cuadro and Francisco Vargas . There he was defeated 7: 9 against Asylbek Talasbayev in the first duel.

The 2009 World Cup in Milan was more successful when he reached the quarter-finals with victories against Ruslan Gasimow, the Olympic medalist Hratschik Jawachjan and the later European runner-up and World Cup bronze winner Thomas Stalker , where he was eliminated from the reigning world champion Albert Selimow .

He achieved his greatest success at the 2011 World Championships in Baku , when he won the gold medal in the light welterweight division. He prevailed against the Pole Michał Syrowatka (TKO), the later Australian professional world champion Jeff Horn (22:10), the later Swedish professional European champion Anthony Yigit (22:10) and the two-time Hungarian world championship bronze winner Gyula Káté (TKO). In the semifinals and final he then defeated the later bronze and silver medalists of the 2012 Olympic Games, Vincenzo Mangiacapre from Italy (16: 7) and Denys Berintschyk from Ukraine (26:23).

With this success he was qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated in the round of 16 against the eventual gold medalist Roniel Iglesias with 15:18. He then took part in the 2013 World Championships in Almaty , defeating Richarno Colin , Dmitri Galagot and the second bronze winner of the 2012 Olympic Games, Evaldas Petrauskas (2: 1), making him one of the medals. In the semifinals he was then eliminated with a bronze medal against the later gold medalist Merei Aqschalow (1: 2).

World Series of Boxing

In the 2010/2011 season Lopes started after a test victory against Koba Pchakadze for Los Angeles in the World Series of Boxing . During the group stage, he played three fights, all of which he won. In the playoffs he fought in the semifinals against Merei Aqschalow from the Astana Arlans and had to admit defeat to this. Los Angeles was eliminated in the semifinals.

Professional career

After his amateur career, he signed a professional contract with US promoter Golden Boy Promotions and won his debut on February 27, 2015 against Evan Woolsey. However, after six straight wins, he retired in May 2018 due to a shoulder injury.