Nickname(s) El Barbaro del Ring Sport Boxing Height 1.63 m Martial art Boxing | Nationality Cuba Rated at Welterweight Weight 69 kg Other name El Barbaro del Ring | |
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Full name Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros Born April 28, 1974 (age 42) ( 1974-04-28 ) Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos Olympic medal Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight People also search for Oleg Saitov, Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kim Jung-joo | ||
Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros (born April 28, 1974) is a Cuban boxer, who was a two-time world champion in the welterweight (69 kg) category.
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Amateur career
Aragón competed at the 1996 Olympics as a featherweight, losing in the quarterfinals to Floyd Mayweather but didn't make the 2000 games.
Aragón won the world championships at welter in 2001 beating Anthony Thompson (2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships). He repeated his win in 2003 defeating Andre Berto in the semi and Sherzod Husanov.(2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships) and also was the 2003 Pan American Games champion.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal. He beat American Vanes Martirosyan but in the final, Aragón was defeated by surprise winner Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan with a score of 36-26. Prior to the Athens Games he won the 2004 Acropolis Boxing Cup in Athens, Greece by defeating Azerbaijan's Ruslan Khairov in the final of the welterweight division.
Aragón was also a ten-time national amateur champion in Cuba, in each weight class between flyweight and welterweight.
Olympic results
1996 (Featherweight)
2004 (Welterweight)