Esquiva Falcão

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Falcão and the second or paternal family name is Florentino.
Esquiva Falcão
Personal information
Full name Esquiva Falcão Florentino
Nationality  Brazil
Born (1989-12-12) 12 December 1989
Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Light Middleweight(2014), Middleweight(2014-), Super Middleweight(2014)

Esquiva Falcão Florentino (born 12 December 1989 in Vitória, Espírito Santo) is a professional boxer from Brazil. The southpaw is the brother of Yamaguchi Falcão and fights at Super Middleweight.

He became famous in his amateur years by winning the Middleweight bronze medal at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing his semi to Ryōta Murata.[1] He hereby qualified for the 2012 Olympics, where he won the silver medal, becoming the first Brazilian to reach an Olympic boxing final after defeating Soltan Migitinov, Zoltán Harcsa and local hero Anthony Ogogo.[2][3]

His name is literally Portuguese for "dodge\slip", as his amateur boxer father wanted to circumvent the prohibition given for coach instructions during the fight, and guide his son simply by shouting his name.[4]

Pro career

Falcão was supposed to fight Paul Harness in his debut, but Harness got injured only six days before the event and was replaced by Joshua Robertson. In his debut, he knocked out Joshua Robertson on the fourth round.[5] Falcão's next fight was announced as part of the preliminary card of the Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley rematch event against Publio Pena.[6] He dominated most of the fight and won by unanimous decision over Publio Pena. Two jugdes scored the fight 60-54, and one scored 60-53.[7] Falcão was supposed to face Australian Alex Don, however, Don got injured and was replaced by South Korean Eun-Chang Lee.[8] Falcão defeated Eun-Chang Lee by unanimous decision, the scorecards were 59-55, 59-54 e 58-55, all in favor of Falcão. The fight took place in Macau, China. [9] Esquiva was expected to face Mexican Mike Noriega, but Mike broke his hand due to sparring, but is still considered one of the best Welterweights in the world with a knockout record in Boxing History of fifteen seconds.[10] Noriega was replaced by the American Malcolm Terry Jr. and Falcão beat him via TKO in the second round after a second knockdown, the fight was stopped by the referee. The first knockdown came in the first round.[11]

By November 2016, Esquiva had amassed an unbeaten record of 15 wins in 15 fights, 12 knockouts with only 3 decisions.

Professional boxing record

15 Wins (12 knockouts, 3 decisions), 0 Losses, 0 Draws[12]
Res. Record Opponent Type Rd., Time Date Location Notes
Win15–0 Mexico Josué Obando RTD 6 (8), 3:00 2016-10-28 United States Laredo Energy Arena, Laredo, Texas
Win14–0 Mexico Paul Valenzuela Jr. TKO 4 (8), 1:31 2016-05-14 United States Sportsmen's Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Win13–0 United States Joe McCreedy TKO 5 (8), 1:48 2016-03-19 United States Arena Theatre, Houston, Texas
Win12–0 United States Hector Muñoz TKO 4 (8), 2:26 2015-12-12 United States Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona
Win11–0 Hungary Zoltan Papp KO 2 (8), 1:50 2015-09-26 United States Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, Lemoore, California
Win10–0 United States Aaron Drake TKO 4 (8), 0:45 2015-06-26 United States State Farm Arena, Hidalgo, Texas
Win9–0 United States Paul Harness RTD 3 (8), 3:00 2015-05-08 United States Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey
Win8–0 United States Omar Rojas UD 6 2015-04-11 United States Laredo Energy Arena, Laredo, Texas
Win7–0 United States Mike Tufariello TKO 2 (6), 2:22 2015-02-28 United States USF Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida
Win6–0 United States Lanny Dardar TKO 5 (6), 1:31 2014-12-06 United States Civic Auditorium, Glendale, California
Win5–0 United States Austin Marcum TKO 2 (6), 1:24 2014-10-04 United States Bahia Shrine Temple, Orlando, Florida Middleweight debut.
Win4–0 United States Malcolm Terry Jr. KO 2 (6), 0:43 2014-08-09 United States Civic Auditorium, Glendale, California Light Middleweight debut.
Win3–0 South Korea Eun-Chang Lee UD 6 2014-05-31 Macau CotaiArena, Macau, SAR
Win2–0 United States Publio Pena UD 6 2014-04-12 United States MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
Win1–0 United States Joshua Robertson TKO 4 (6), 2:36 2014-02-15 United States C. Robert Lee Center, Hawaiian Gardens, California Professional boxing debut at Super Middleweight.

References

  1. ↑ AIBA Biographies
  2. ↑ Kevin Mitchell at the ExCeL Arena (10 August 2012). "London 2012: Boxing bronze for GB after Anthony Ogogo loses semi-final | Sport". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Medzhidov and Falcao Florentino on podium at Olympics - World Series of Boxing". Worldseriesboxing.com. 7 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Os 'causos' de Touro Moreno
  5. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/02/esquiva-falcao-vence-americano-por-nocaute-na-estreia-como-profissional.html#esporte-boxe
  6. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/03/na-preliminar-de-pacquiao-esquiva-enfrentara-americano-publio-pena.html
  7. ↑ http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/esportes,esquiva-falcao-agrada-empresario-em-2-luta-profissional,1153252,0.htm
  8. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/04/esquiva-falcao-enfrenta-australiano-em-sua-terceira-luta-como-profissional.html
  9. ↑ http://atarde.uol.com.br/esportes/noticias/1595777-esquiva-falcao-vence-terceira-luta-no-boxe-profissional
  10. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/es/noticia/2014/07/mike-noriega-quebra-mao-e-esquiva-falcao-aguarda-novo-adversario.html#atleta-esquiva-falcao
  11. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/08/sem-perdao-esquiva-falcao-nocauteia-americano-no-segundo-round.html
  12. ↑ Esquiva Falcão. Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
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