Nickname(s) El Barbaro del Ring Role Boxer Rated at Welterweight Name Lorenzo Aragon Martial art Boxing | Sport Boxing Weight 68 kg Nationality Cuba Height 1.63 m | |
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Full name Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros Born April 28, 1974 (age 50) ( 1974-04-28 ) Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos Olympic medals Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight People also search for Bakhtiyar Artayev, Oleg Saitov, Kim Jung-joo | ||
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Lorenzo Aragon 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
Aragon competed at the 1996 Olympics as a featherweight, losing in the quarterfinals to Floyd Mayweather but didn't make the 2000 games.
Aragon 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, Aragon 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.
Aragon was also a ten-time national amateur champion in Cuba, in each weight class between flyweight and welterweight.
Olympic results
1996 (Featherweight)
2004 (Welterweight)