Luis Alberto Pérez (boxer)

Luis Alberto Pérez (born April 6, 1968 in Managua , Nicaragua ) is a Nicaraguan boxer in the bantam and super flyweight . In both weight classes he held the IBF world championship .

Professional career

On November 2, 1996 he successfully made his professional debut against Daniel Rosales with a technical knockout victory in round 3 in a 6-round fight.

In March 2003 he defeated Ruben Diaz in the super flyweight division and thereby won the WBA Fedecentro title. The following year he also won the WBA Fedelatin Belt, which he defended twice in a row. On January 4, 2003, he met the Colombian southpaw Félix Machado . This battle was about the IBF world championship belt. Perez won this fight by split judge decision and thus secured the title.

He defended this belt in December of the same year against Machado in a direct rematch by unanimous decision, at the end of April 2006 against Luis Balano with a technical knockout victory in round 6 and on May 6, 2006 against Dmitry Kirillov by split point decision. After these successful title defenses, Perez laid down his belt as he switched to bantamweight.

In this weight class, he boxed in his first fight against the Mexican Genaro Garcia for the vacant IBF World Championship and won by TKo in the 7th round. However, he lost this title in his first title defense at the end of September of the same year against Joseph Agbeko by giving up in round 7.

The following year he failed against Ricardo Córdoba unanimously on points when it came to the interim world championship in super bantamweight.

Web links

• Luis Alberto Pérez in the BoxRec database