Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux
Guillermo Rigondeaux (2011)
Data
Birth Name	Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
Fight name	El Chacal
Weight class	Super bantamweight
nationality	Cuban
birthday	September 30, 1980
place of birth	La Prueba, Cuba
style	Legal display
size	1.64 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	18th
Victories	17th
Knockout victories	11
Defeats	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (born September 30, 1980 in La Prueba , Municipio Songo - La Maya , Province of Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban professional boxer and current world champion of the WBA and WBO in super bantamweight.

Amateur career

Rigondeaux played 463 amateur fights, of which he lost only twelve and was from 2000 to 2006 seven consecutive Cuban bantamweight champions. In the final of 2006 he defeated Idel Torriente clearly on points. At the Junior World Championships in 1998 in Buenos Aires he lost in the quarterfinals to the Kazakh featherweight Olympic champion of 2000 Beksat Sattarchanow .

In 2000 he took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney for Cuba . On the day of his twentieth birthday he won the final over the Russian Raimkul Malachbekow and thus won the gold medal for the first time. In his second Olympic participation at the Games in Athens , he succeeded in defending his title.

He has also been successful in his previous participation in amateur world championships, winning the championships in Belfast in 2001 and in Mianyang, China in 2005 . At the 2003 World Championships in Bangkok , however, after four years, a series of 142 fights without losing, he suffered a defeat again. He lost there in the second round of the tournament to the eventual world champion, the Azerbaijani Ağası Məmmədov .

In the course of his amateur career, Rigondeaux u. a. Yankiel León , Gennadi Kowaljow , Detelin Dalakliew , Rau'Shee Warren , Bahodirjon Sultonov , Yordenis Ugás , Gary Russell junior and Abner Mares .

Further international tournament victories

• Goodwill Games - 2001
• Chemistry Cup - 2001-2005
• World Cup 2002, 2005 and 2006
• Pan American Games - 2003
• Pan American Championship - 2005
• Central American and Caribbean Games - 2006

Escape attempt and successful escape

In July 2007 Rigondeaux took part for Cuba in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and sat with his teammate Erislandy Lara from the Cuban team. His upcoming quarter-final fight was automatically counted as a defeat due to his non-appearance. Since his last defeat in 2003, he had achieved 104 victories in a row, in total he achieved a total of 378 victories with twelve defeats in his amateur career. Ringondeaux and Lara were then signed by the Hamburg boxing stable Arena Box-Promotion , which a few months earlier had already been able to sign their compatriots Odlanier Solís , Yuriorkis Gamboa and Yan Barthelemí . Since their Brazilian visas had expired at the end of the Pan American Games , they were arrested by the Brazilian federal police for illegal residence. Contrary to expectations, the two boxers did not apply for asylum, but returned to Cuba, where they were banned from working for life. In February 2009 Rigondeaux made a second, this time successful, escape attempt and reached the American stronghold of Cuban exiles, Miami .

Professional career

In the USA, Guillermo Rigondeaux was signed by the purely Cuban boxing stable "Caribe Promotions". He lives in Los Angeles, where he trains in the "Wild Card Boxing Club" of the experienced trainer Freddie Roach.

On May 22, 2009 Rigondeaux won his first professional fight against Juan Noriega (USA) in Miami. In his seventh professional fight he defeated in the fight for the interim world championship of the WBA in the super bantamweight on November 13, 2010 Ricardo Córdoba from Panama on points. He then defended the interim title in March 2011 with a technical knockout in the first round against the previously undefeated Irish Willie Casey. On January 20, 2012 Rigondeaux boxed against the WBA title holder Rico Ramos for the full world championship and won by knockout in the sixth round due to a left liver hook. He defended his title twice in the same year against rather mediocre opponents. A union fight with the WBO world champion Nonito Donaire was agreed for April 13, 2013 . Rigondeaux won this fight unanimously on points despite a knockdown in the tenth round.

In December 2013, he beat Joseph Agbeko on points. In July 2014 he defeated Sod Kokietgym (record: 63-2) by knockout in the first round.

Web links

• Guillermo Rigondeaux's most important fights ( Memento of October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Guillermo Rigondeaux in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz - BoxRec. Retrieved June 8, 2017 (UK English). 
2. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldCup2002.html
3. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldCup2005.html
4. ↑ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldCup2006.html
5. ↑ Rigondeaux en manos del mejor mánager del mundo in ElNuevoHerald.com from September 1, 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)  

predecessor	Office	successor
Rico Ramos	World Superbantamweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) since January 20, 2012	-
Nonito Donaire	World Superbantamweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) since April 13, 2013	-