Sergio Mora

Mora, Sergio
Data
Birth Name	Mora, Sergio
Weight class	Light middleweight
nationality	Americans
birthday	4th December 1980
place of birth	los Angeles
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.82 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	36
Victories	29
Knockout victories	9
Defeats	5
draw	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Sergio Mora (* 4. December 1980 in Los Angeles ) is an American boxer and former world champion of the WBC in the light middleweight.

Career

Amateur career

Sergio Mora grew up as one of the four sons of a single mother who was living as a saleswoman in a department store in Los Angeles in very modest circumstances. In the playful fights with his brothers and other friends of the same kind, it was shown that he is very agile and physically fit. Therefore, at the age of 14, he signed up for boxing training in a gym and fought his first amateur fight at the age of 15. Sergio Mora, who attended Schurr High School in Montebello , was soon very successful in the regional California area and even became Western light middleweight champion in 2000, which earned him qualification for the US Olympic Trials. He came up to the final fight against Jermain Taylor , which he lost on points. Jermain Taylor then won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division at the 2000 Olympic Games in Athens .

Profile career

Sergio Mora decided to become a professional boxer back in 2000. His trainer was Dean Campos. He played his first fight on August 17, 2000 in Anaheim , California, defeating Antonio Maldonaldo from Mexico on points. It was built very carefully and only completed about three to four fights per year. On May 15, 2004, in Chicago , he defeated Les Ralston, who had also been unbeaten up to then and was considered a great young talent, after eight rounds on points. In 2004 and 2005 he took part in the boxing tournament "The Contender" organized by a US TV company. He defeated his competitors Naja Turpin, Ishe Smith and Jesse Brinkley in various venues and faced his compatriot Peter Manfredo , North American light middleweight champion, in the final battle on May 24, 2005 in Las Vegas . He won this fight on points after seven rounds and received a $ 1 million prize.

On October 15, 2005, Sergio Mora beat Peter Manfredo safely on points in Los Angeles in the revenge match. His goal was now to come to a world championship fight of one of the major world boxing associations. On the way there he defeated the IBA Continental Middleweight Champion Eric Regan from the United States on August 25, 2006 in Sacramento after ten rounds on points. On October 16, 2007 he fought in Carson against his compatriot Elvin Ayala in a draw. It was the first fight in his career that he did not win. Ayala then boxed on March 29, 2008 in Kiel against the IBF middleweight champion, the German Arthur Abraham and was knocked out in the twelfth round

Sergio Mora defeated the Mexican Rito Ruvalcaba on January 11, 2008 in Cabazon , California, and finally got the chance to become WBC light middleweight champion on June 7, 2008 in Uncasville , Connecticut . He defeated Vernon Forrest over twelve rounds, but lost the title in a direct rematch three months later on points again to Forrest.

In September 2010 he boxed against Shane Mosley and lost in 2011 and 2012 on points to Brian Vera . In June 2013 he defeated the Poles Grzegorz Proksa and in February 2015 Abraham Han in the fight for the US middleweight title.

In August 2015 he boxed for the WBA middleweight world title, but lost to Daniel Jacobs in the second round due to a technical knockout . Mora also lost the rematch in September 2016 through tKo in the seventh round.

Sergio Mora is nicknamed "The Latin Snake". He owes this name to his appearance and his smooth fighting style, which is less geared towards Kos, but rather with which he boxed out his opponents in a classic way.

literature

• Box Sport trade journal from 2000 to 2008

Web links

• Portrait of Sergio Mora on Tournaments of Contenders
• Sergio Mora in the BoxRec database
• Sergio Mora in the BoxRec Encyclopaedia
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pol"