Yoan Pablo Hernández

Yoan Pablo Hernández
Yoan Pablo Hernández
Data
Birth Name	Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez
Weight class	Cruiser weight
nationality	Cuban / German (since January 2013)
birthday	October 28, 1984
place of birth	Pinar del Río
style	Legal display
size	1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	31
Victories	29
Knockout victories	14th
Defeats	2

Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez (born October 28, 1984 in Pinar del Río ) is a former Cuban - German boxer and IBF world cruiserweight champion.

amateur

Hernández, a 1.93 m tall southpaw, took second place in the 2001 World Cup in the Cadet age group (U-17). In 2002 he beat Stefan Köber in the semi-finals of the heavyweight division at the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Cuba and then won the title. After he lost to Cuban superstar Odlanier Solís twice in 2003, the trainers let him lose ten kilograms and box in the light heavyweight division (up to 81 kg).

He won the light heavyweight silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games , where he was defeated by the Mexican Ramiro Reducindo on points 20 to 37. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he lost in the preliminary round against Russian double world champion Yevgeny Makarenko with 18 to 30. In 2005 he became Cuban heavyweight champion with a 22:18 point win over Luis Ortiz after Odlanier Solís had switched to super heavyweight.

professional

In 2005, after a defeat by Alexander Powernow at the Chemistry Cup in Halle, he left the Cuban team and became a professional with Wilfried Sauerland and trained with Ulli Wegner . Hernández demonstrated his class impressively in his first two professional fights. At the ICC Berlin he made his professional debut on September 3, 2005 against David Vicena . In his fifteenth professional fight, Hernández suffered his first defeat against former world champion Wayne Braithwaite . Although he already had Braithwaite on the ground in the first round, he lost in the third round due to a technical knockout , after he himself had to go down three times.

On October 1, 2011, Hernández won the Cruiserweight World Championship fight of the International Boxing Federation against Steve Cunningham in Neubrandenburg . The fight was stopped and evaluated by the referee after the 6th round on the advice of the ring doctor because of two cut injuries to Hernández. One judge scored in favor of Cunningham, two judges scored the fight in favor of Hernández, who thus won the world title. He also won the rematch on February 4, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main after 12 rounds on points.

After winning points against Troy Ross (25-2) in September 2012, he only defended his title again on November 23, 2013 by knockout in the tenth round against Alexander Alexejew . The next defense followed on August 16, 2014; this time Hernández controversially won against Firat Arslan on points.

Hernández had to cancel a title defense against the Argentine Victor Emilio Ramírez planned for October 2, 2015 due to an injury to his knee , whereupon the IBF stripped him of the title and then awarded Ramírez. Hernández then announced his retirement on September 27, 2015 for health reasons. In addition to knee surgery, surgery on the elbow is also required.

List of boxing matches

year	Day	Opponent / target	place	Result	Type	Round
2005	September 3	David Vicena	International Congress Center Berlin , Berlin	victory	TKO	2/4
	September 10	Vladislav Druso	Sports center Jumps, Berlin	victory	TKO	1/4
	November 12th	Mounir Chibi	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg	Point win	Unanimous decision	4/4
	10th of December	Aleksejs Kosobokovs	Arena Leipzig , Leipzig	victory	by disqualification	2/6
2006	4th of March	Aleksejs Kosobokovs	EWE Arena , Oldenburg	Point win	Unanimous decision	6/6
	April 8th	Ervin Slonka	Geulen hall theater, Aachen	victory	RTD	3/6
	May 13th	Carl Gathright	City Hall, Zwickau	victory	KO	1/8
	September 23rd	Jean Claude Bikoi	Rittal Arena Wetzlar , Wetzlar	Point win	Unanimous decision	8/8
	December 16	Jason Curry	Bigbox Allgäu , Kempten	victory	KO	1/8
2007	April 14th	Hector Alfredo Avila	Porsche Arena , Stuttgart	Point win	Unanimous decision	8/8
	23rd June	Thomas Hansvoll	City Hall, Zwickau	victory	KO	1/8
	18th of August	Daniel Bispo	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	KO	1/10
	October 27	Ismail Abdoul	Messe Erfurt , Erfurt	Point win	Unanimous decision	8/8
	December 29th	Mohamed Azzaoui	Seidensticker Halle , Bielefeld	victory	KO	1/12
2008	March 29	Wayne Braithwaite	Sparkassen-Arena , Kiel	defeat	TKO	3/12
	June 7th	Stefan Raaff	Karl Eckel Halle, Hattersheim	victory	RTD	3/8
	August 30th	Santiago de Paula	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	TKO	5/8
	October 25	Michael Simms	Weser-Ems-Halle , Oldenburg	Majority decision	8/8
2009	February 28	Micky Steeds	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg	victory	KO	5/8
	May 9	Aaron Williams	Jako Arena , Bamberg	Point win	Unanimous decision	8/8
	October 17th	Enad Licina	O2 World Berlin , Berlin	Point win	Unanimous decision	12/12
2010	March 13th	Cesar David Crenz	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	Point win	Unanimous decision	12/12
	June 5th	Zack Page	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg	Point win	Unanimous decision	8/8
	December 18th	Ali Ismailov	Max-Schmeling-Halle , Berlin	victory	KO	1/12
2011	February 12th	Steve Herelius	RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sports Hall, Mülheim an der Ruhr	victory	KO	7/12
	October 1	Steve Cunningham IBF World Championship	Jahnsportforum , Neubrandenburg	Point win	Technical decision	6/12
2012	February 4th	Steve Cunningham IBF title defense	Fraport Arena , Frankfurt am Main	Point win	Unanimous decision	12/12
	September 15th	Troy Ross IBF title defense	Stechert Arena , Bamberg	Point win	Unanimous decision	12/12
2013	November 23	Alexander Vyacheslavovich Alexejew IBF World Championship	Stechert Arena , Bamberg	victory	KO	10/12
2014	August 16	Fırat Arslan IBF World Championship	Messe Erfurt , Erfurt	Point win	Shared decision	12/12
(Source: BoxRec database )

Web links

• Yoan Pablo Hernández in the BoxRec database
• Info page about Yoan Pablo Hernández at his employer Sauerland Event
• Between the rounds documentary about Yoan Pablo Hernández

Individual evidence

1. ^ Boxing world champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez becomes German ( Memento from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), sport.t-online.de, December 21, 2012
2. ↑ Former world champion Hernandez gives career on rp-online.de, September 27, 2015, accessed on October 22, 2015.
3. ↑ Q: BoxSport No. 11, November 2015, page 9