Real name Omar Andrés Narváez Total fights 49 Height 1.6 m Stance Southpaw stance | Nationality Argentine Wins 45 Weight 53 kg Martial art Boxing | |
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Nickname(s) El Huracán ("The Hurricane") Rated at Flyweight
Super flyweight Born July 10, 1975 (age 41)
Trelew, Chubut, Argentina ( 1975-07-10 ) Division Super flyweight, Flyweight, Bantamweight Similar Naoya Inoue, Fernando Montiel, Nonito Donaire, Carlos Monzón, Román González | ||
Omar Andrés Narváez (born July 10, 1975) is an Argentine professional boxer. He is a former WBO flyweight and super flyweight champion, and as an amateur was the first boxer from the 2000 Olympics to capture a major world title. Together with Julio César Chávez has the record for the most successful defenses of world titles (27).
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He won the WBO world flyweight title on July 13, 2002 by a unanimous decision win over Adonis Rivas. He defended the title 16 times with wins over Luis Alberto Lazarate, Andrea Sarritzu (twice), Everardo Morales, Alexander Mahmutov, Reginaldo Martins Carvalho, Bernard Inom, Rexon Flores, Walberto Ramos, Brahim Asloum, Marlon Marquez, Carlos Tamara, Iván Pozo, Alejandro "Payasito" Hernández, Rayonta Whitfield and Omar Soto.
He then moved up to Super Flyweight and won the WBO Super Flyweight title on May 15, 2010, with a unanimous points decision against Nicaraguan Everth Briceno in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Narvaez faced Nonito Donaire on Oct. 22, 2011, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden at Bantamweight. He lost the one-sided fight by unanimous decision, his first professional loss.
He later returned to the super flyweight division and made eleven consecutive defenses of the WBO super flyweight title before getting knocked out by Naoya Inoue in the second round on December 30, 2014.
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