Julio César La Cruz

Julio César La Cruz medal table
Boxing
Cuba
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2016	Light heavyweight
World championships
bronze	2019	Light heavyweight
gold	2017	Light heavyweight
gold	2015	Light heavyweight
gold	2013	Light heavyweight
gold	2011	Light heavyweight
Pan American Games
gold	2019	Light heavyweight
gold	2015	Light heavyweight
gold	2011	Light heavyweight
Central America and Caribbean Games
gold	2018	Light heavyweight
gold	2014	Light heavyweight
Pan American Championships
gold	2017	Light heavyweight
gold	2015	Light heavyweight
silver	2010	Light heavyweight

Julio César La Cruz Peraza (born August 11, 1989 in Camagüey ) is a Cuban boxer . He is Olympic champion (2016) and four-time world champion (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) in the light heavyweight division .

Career

National championships

Julio César La Cruz comes from Camagüey and is an excellent stylist with a lot of courage and a willingness to take risks. In 2007 he boxed his way into the light heavyweight division of the Cuban elite. He proved this emphatically at the team championship of the Cuban performance centers in October 2007, where he started for Camagüey and with Lisael Herrera, Isael Secadas, Yordanis Despaigne , Adrian Gonzalez and Erislandy Savón , defeated almost the entire top Cuban in the light heavyweight division and with the team the reached second place.

He then continued his winning streak at the 2008 Cuban Championship, where he defeated Yoandri Marco, Yurixander Aguilar, Yunier Dorticos and Yordanis Despaigne and became the Cuban light heavyweight champion. At the Cuban Championships in 2009 he was eliminated from Julio Iglesias with a bronze medal in the semifinals, but won against this at the Cuban Team Championships, as well as against Alain Herrera, Jose Chapotin and Reinier Castillo. He suffered the only defeat against Yaikel Kindelán, but his team Camagüey became team champions.

In 2010 he was Cuban champion again with a final victory against Georky Barrientos and this time defeated Yaikel Kindelán in the semifinals 10-0. At the team championships he reached second place with Camagüey and won all three fights, including again against Yaikel Kindelán (11: 2). In addition, he won the Cuban National Challenge in the final against José Larduet and also won the Cuban Olympiad with victories against Irosvany Duvergel, Georky Barrientos and Yaikel Kindelán.

In 2011 he was again Cuban champion and won the team championship with his team. He repeated winning the Cuban light heavyweight championship in the following five years from 2012 to 2016, before winning the Cuban heavyweight championships for the first time in 2017.

Continental championships

At his first Pan American Championships in Ecuador in 2010 , he moved into the final against Elmer Salguero and Francisco Ortega, where he lost 9:10 to Ítalo Perea . In 2011 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Mexico by defeating Jeffrey Spencer, Carlos Góngora and Yamaguchi Falcão . By beating Juan Carrillo in the final, he also won qualification for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games , which were also held in Mexico, and won by beating Juan Carrillo in the final again.

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Canada , he repeated winning the gold medal by winning fights against Carlos Mina , Juan Carrillo and Albert Ramírez . However , he ended the Pan American Championships in Venezuela in 2015 after a final defeat against Albert Ramírez with the silver medal. However , he won the 2017 Pan American Championships in Honduras again against Ian Darby, Jeysson Monroy and Carlos Mina.

In 2018 he won qualification for the Central American and Caribbean Games. He had prevailed against Luis Gorger, Osmán Bravo and Rogelio Romero. At the games themselves he won the gold medal by beating Rogelio Romero in the final. He won another gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Peru .

World championships

At his first world championships in Baku in 2011 , he already won the world title through victorious duels against Michail Dauhaljawez , Caner Soyak, Enrico Kölling , Damien Hooper , Yegor Mechonzew and Aedilbek Nijasymbetow . In 2013 in Almaty he repeated this success with victories against Serge Michel , Olexandr Ganzulya, Abdelhafid Benchabla , Joe Ward and again Ädilbek Nijasymbetow.

In 2015 in Doha he prevailed again in the final fight against Joe Ward and won his third world title in a row. In the semi-finals he had defeated Pawel Siljagin , in the quarter-finals Hrvoje Sep and in the second round Joshua Buatsi . In 2017 in Hamburg he beat Rogelio Romero, Ibragim Basuew, Carlos Mina and Joe Ward on the way to his fourth world title. He achieved the second place of the most successful World Cup participant of all time, which he shares with Juan Hernández . Her compatriot Félix Savón is in first place with six gold medals.

Olympic games

In 2008 he failed in the American qualification by two defeats against Eleider Álvarez and Christopher Downs.

By winning the 2011 World Cup, he qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . There he defeated Ihab Darweesh , but then retired at 15:18 against Yamaguchi Falcão .

Having won the World Cup in 2015, he was also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There he was able to defeat Mehmet Ünal , Michel Borges , Mathieu Bauderlique and Ädilbek Nijasymbetow , making him Olympic champion.

World Series of Boxing

In the World Series of Boxing (WSB) Julio César La Cruz is team captain of the Cuban team "Cuba Domadores", with which he won the championship title in the first season of their participation in 2013/14. He won six out of seven fights and was voted Boxer of the Match in the final. Among the defeated opponents were Hrvoje Sep , Teymur Məmmədov and Michail Dauhaljawez , his only defeat he suffered against Nikita Ivanov .

In the second season 2014/15, Cuba reached the final again, but this time eliminated against "Astana Arlans". Julio César La Cruz had won eight out of nine fights, including against Peter Müllenberg , Oleksandr Chyschnjak and Carlos Mina . He suffered his defeat in another encounter against Mina.

In 2015-16, Cuba won the title again, with Julio César La Cruz winning all of his five fights. In the 2017 season he won four out of five fights, his only loss being to Albert Ramírez . He scored one of his victories against Bektemir Meliqoʻziyev . In the final, however, Cuba was eliminated again against Astana Arlans.

swell

• Box Sport magazine from 2007 and 2008,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"

Individual evidence