Lorenzo Aragón

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Aragón and the second or maternal family name is Armenteros.
Lorenzo Aragón
Personal information
Full name Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros
Nickname(s) El Barbaro del Ring
Nationality  Cuba
Born (1974-04-28) April 28, 1974
Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Welterweight

Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros (born April 28, 1974) is a Cuban boxer, who was a two-time world champion in the welterweight (69 kg) category.

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)

Other amateur highlights


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