Aníbal Santiago Acevedo (born April 28, 1971) is a Puerto Rican

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, who won a

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in the

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division at the

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. A year earlier he won the bronze medal at the

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) *1991: Bronze Medal Pan Am Games Junior Welterweight *1991: Lost to

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on points in World Championships in Sydney, Australia *1992: Gold Medal Santo Domingo Olympic Trials Welterweight (beat

Guillermo Jones Guillermo Jones (born May 5, 1972) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2017. He held the WBA cruiserweight title from 2008 to 2012, and challenged twice for the WBA super welterweight title in 1998. Professional ...

) *1992: Represented Puerto Rico as a welterweight at the Barcelona Olympic games. His results were: **Defeated Harry Simon (Namibia) 13-11 **Defeated Stefan Scriggins (Australia) 16-3 **Defeated Francisc Vaştag (Romania) 20-9 **Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba) 2-11

Professional career

Acevedo began his professional career in 1993 and has had limited success. In 2006 he lost via TKO to Randy Griffin. In February 2007 he lost by KO against Jarmine Mickey.

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Amateur Boxing - Panamerican Games (1991) - Havana, Cuba
1971 births Living people Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Puerto Rico Olympic bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Welterweight boxers Boxers from San Juan, Puerto Rico Olympic medalists in boxing Puerto Rican male boxers Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Pan American Games bronze medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games 20th-century American sportsmen {{PuertoRico-boxing-bio-stub