Alfredo Pérez (boxer)

Alfredo Pérez (born February 11, 1952 ) is a former Venezuelan boxer . Pérez was bronze medalist at the 1975 Pan American Games , silver medalist at the 1974 World Championships and winner of the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974. He was also a participant in the 1976 Olympic Games .

Career

Pérez's first international championships were the Central America and Caribbean Championships in Mexico City , where he won the flyweight title (-51 kg) with a final victory over Douglas Rodríguez , Cuba (3-2 ). In the following year he also started at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo , where he dominated the gold medal. At the 1974 World Championships in Havana , Pérez reached the final after a semi-final victory over Constantin Gruiescu , Romania , where he again faced Rodriguez. However, this time Peréz lost to the Cuban with a 4: 1 judge's vote. At the end of the same year he also defended his title of the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Caracas . In the final, he beat the Cuban Ramón Duvalón . He succeeded in doing the same in Guatemala City in 1975 . In the same year he met Duvalón again in the semi-finals of the Pan American Games , but this time he had to admit defeat by 4-1 judges' votes. At the 1976 Olympic Games , Pérez won against Ernesto Rios, Mexico (5-0), Said Ahmed Elashry, Egypt ( where ), and Georgi Kostadinov, Bulgaria (5-0), before beating eventual bronze medalist Leszek Błażyński , Poland in the quarter-finals (3: 2), eliminated.

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• http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• Alfredo Pérez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )