Israel Crespo
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Israel Omar Crespo (12 February 1986 - 15 September 2007) was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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[edit] Amateur career
Known as "Chickie", Crespo had an outstanding amateur career, and was the National Golden Gloves Light Flyweight Champion in 2004.
[edit] Professional career
Crespo turned professional in 2005, fighting out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and won his first two bouts before losing to Carlos Tamara in 2006.
[edit] Death
Crespo was shot and killed by bullets fired from a moving car while horseback riding with friends outside Ponce, Puerto Rico. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Former Lancaster boxer killed". Intelligencer Journal. 2007-09-17. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LC&p_theme=lc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=headline(Former+Lancaster+boxer+killed)%20AND%20date(09/01/2007%20to%2009/31/2007)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_field_advanced-0=title&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Former+Lancaster+boxer+killed%22)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
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