David Sánchez Cantú (2 February 1992 – 19 May 2017) was a Mexican professional boxer. Sánchez won the
WBA Interim Super Flyweight title by defeating Breilor Teran in
Tijuana
Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico. Tijuana is the municipal seat of the Tijuana Municipality, the hub of the Tijuana metropolitan area and the most popu ...
, Baja California, Mexico on 24 May 2014.
Sánchez made his professional debut on 25 April 2008 at the age of 16, defeating Trinidad Ruiz via
knockout
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, ...
. On 23 February 2013, he defeated
Marlon Tapales
Marlon Tapales (born March 23, 1992) is a Filipino professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight class (boxing), weight classes, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight title from 2016 to 2017 and the Unifi ...
at the
Arena Sonora in
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the state's ...
to capture the
WBC interim Silver
super flyweight
Super flyweight, also referred to as junior bantamweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to .
History
The first title match in this division was in 1980, when the World Boxing Council responded to pressure from A ...
title.
Death
Sanchez and his brother, fellow professional boxer Jonathan, both died when the car they were traveling in, from Hermosillo to Poblado Miguel Aleman, collided with a tractor at the Hermosillo to Bahia Kino highway.
References
External links
Professional boxing record for David Sanchezfrom BoxRec
1992 births
2017 deaths
Boxers from Sonora
Mexican male boxers
Road incident deaths in Mexico
Super-flyweight boxers
21st-century Mexican sportsmen
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