Joel Casamayor
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1992 Barcelona | Bantamweight |
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson (born July 12, 1971 in Guantanamo) is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro in 1992 after he had won an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the hairbrush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face.
Amateur Career
- 1989 – Gold medal (Bantamweight) at the Junior World Championships
- 1992 – Gold medal (Bantamweight) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain
- Defeated Venkatesan Devarajan (India) points
- Defeated Riadh Klaai (Tunisia) points
- Defeated Roberto Jalnaiz (Philippines) KO 1
- Defeated Mohammed Achik (Morocco) TKO 1
- Defeated Wayne McCullough (Ireland) points
- 1993 – Silver medal (Bantamweight) at the 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland
- Defeated Agathangelos Tsiripidis (Greece) TKO 3
- Defeated Dirk Krueger (Germany) points
- Defeated Arthur Mikaelian (Armenia) points
- Defeated Vladislav Antonov (Russia) points
- Lost to Alexander Hristov (Bulgaria) points
- 1994 – Bronze medal (Featherweight) at the World Cup in Bangkok, Thailand
- Defeated Brian Carr (Scotland) points
- Defeated Nourredine Medjihoud (Algeria) points
- Defeated Cristian Rodriguez (Argentina) points
- Lost to Falk Huste (Germany) points
- 1994 – Silver Medal (Featherweight) at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Defeated Kai Kandelin (Finland) TKO 1
- Defeated Claude Chinon (France) points
- Lost to Ramazi Paliani (Russia) points
- 1995 – Competed (Featherweight) at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, Germany
- Lost to Raimkul Malachbekov (Russia) points
Professional Career
As a professional, he won the NABF Super Featheweight title in 1999. Later that year, he won the WBA Super Featherweight title. In 2002, he lost that title in a unification bout with WBO champion Acelino Freitas. In 2004, Diego Corrales, whom Casamayor stopped in 2003, defeated him for the vacant WBO Super Featherweight title. He failed to take the WBC Lightweight title from Jose Luis Castillo later that year. In October of 2006, Casamayor yet again is scheduled to take on the popular Corrales.
Casamayor is a unionized boxer, a member of the Joint Association of Boxers.
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