Moisés Fuentes Rubio (20 September 1985 – 24 November 2022) was a Mexican
professional boxer
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who held the
WBO minimumweight title from 2011 to 2013 and the WBO
interim
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junior flyweight
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Professional boxing
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title from 2013 to 2014.
Professional career
On 6 February 2010, Fuentés won a ten-round
unanimous decision
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over Mexican Eduardo González to capture the interim
WBC Youth
minimumweight title in
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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.
WBO minimumweight champion
On 27 August 2011, Fuentés won a twelve-round
split decision
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A split dec ...
over
Raúl García to capture the WBO minimumweight title. The bout was held at the Auditorio Benito Juárez, in Guadalajara.
Personal life and death
Fuentes suffered a blood clot in his brain as the result of a 2021 fight with David Cuellar. He never fought again after that and complications from the injury resulted in his death at the age of 37 on November 24, 2022.
A los 37 años de edad falleció Moi Fuentes, quien peleó en 33 funciones con 25 triunfos, 14 de ellos por nocaut
Professional boxing record
See also
*List of Mexican boxing world champions
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*List of WBO world champions
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*List of strawweight boxing champions
This is a list of world mini-flyweight boxing champions (also known as minimumweight or strawweight), as recognized by the four major sanctioning organizations in boxing:
* The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National B ...
References
External links
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1985 births
2022 deaths
Mexican male boxers
Boxers from Mexico City
Mini-flyweight boxers
World mini-flyweight boxing champions
World Boxing Organization champions
20th-century Mexican people
21st-century Mexican people
Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing