Jesús Gabriel "Jessie" Magdaleno (born November 8, 1991) is an American

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who held the

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title from 2016 to 2018. He is the younger brother of boxer

Diego Magdaleno Diego Armando Magdaleno (born October 28, 1986) is an American professional boxer. He challenged for the WBO super featherweight title in 2013 and the WBO lightweight title in 2015. At regional level, he held the WBC- NABF super featherweight ...

Amateur career

Magdaleno was one of the best amateur fighters in America, finishing his amateur career with a 120-16 record. In 2009 Magdaleno won both the United States National Championship by beating

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and won the National Golden Gloves Championship by beating

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(among others) in the Bantamweight division.

Professional career

Magdaleno is signed to

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. On June 6, 2012, Magdaleno knocked out Puerto Rican veteran

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in the first round. The bout was televised on

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. On 5 November, 2016, Magdaleno faced Nonito Donaire in his first ever bid to win a world title. The fight was close and very entertaining, but the judges saw Magdaleno as the clear winner, scoring the fight 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112 in favor of the challenger and newly crowned WBO junior featherweight champion. In his first title defense, Magdaleno managed to make easy work out of challenger Adeilson Dos Santos. Midway through the second round, Magdaleno managed to drop Dos Santos. Dos Santos beat the count, but Magdaleno threw a flurry of shots to drop him again. This was enough for the referee to stop the fight at 2:51. In his next fight, he faced the young talented fighter from Ghana, Isaac Dogboe. Magdaleno started off strong, dropping Dogboe in the opening round. Dogboe managed to recover and the fight went on. In the fifth round, Dogboe returned the favor and dropped Magdaleno with a heavy right hand. The champion was visibly hurt, and even though he managed to continue the fight, Dogboe was clearly winning the fight. In the 11th round, Dogboe would drop Magdaleno two more times, forcing the referee to stop the fight. After his first professional loss, Magdaleno fought and defeated former world titlist Rico Ramos. On 17 August, 2019, Magdaleno faced Rafael Riviera. In an entertaining fight, Magdaleno managed to first drop Riviera at the beginning of the ninth round. In the same round, an accidental elbow by Riviera caused a bad cut over Magdaleno's right eye. The ringside physician ruled that the cut was too severe for the fight to continue. Magdaleno was awarded a technical decision win. On June 11, 2020, Magdaleno fought Dominican fighter

Yenifel Vicente Yenifel Vicente (born 26 June 1986) is a Dominican professional boxer. He held the WBA Fedelatin super-bantamweight title from 2010 to 2011 and the WBC FECARBOX super-bantamweight title in 2011. He has also been featured in the top 10 of the W ...

. Magdaleno had his way with his opponent, dropping him twice, once in the first, and once in the fifth round. Vicente also lost four points for his low blows on Magdaleno. When Vicente went for another low blow in the tenth round, the referee had seen enough of it, and stopped the fight, awarding Magdaleno a DQ win.

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Professional career

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