José Correa González (December 27, 1980 in
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. The district today is composed of various '' barrios'' (these are the primary legal div ...
- April 23, 2015 in
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading ( ; Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Reddin'') is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city had a population of 95,112 as of the 2020 census and is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philade ...
) was a Puerto Rican professional
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.
Professional career
On March 23, 2007, Correa lost to Edwin Vázquez Galíndez in a fight for the
WBA Fedecaribe
welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the ...
title.
References
External links
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Welterweight boxers
1980 births
Living people
Puerto Rican male boxers
Sportspeople from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Boxers from San Juan, Puerto Rico
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