Ítalo/Ytalo Perea Castillo (born June 10, 1993, in
Esmeraldas ) is an
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...
ian boxer who sensationally won the
Panamerican Games 2011 Super Heavyweight title at the age of 18.
He is a lefthander but fights from an orthodox stance behind a tight guard.
In 2009 he controversially lost the 81 kg final of the World Junior (f. Cadet) Championships in Armenia to Uzbek Kharzanov.
In 2010 he won the 81 kg PanAm Junior title.
In 2011 he moved up two classes to Super Heavy where he benefitted from the absence of Cuban top favorite
Erislandy Savon and won the senior PanAm title by KOing
Gerardo Bisbal and outpointing
Juan Hiracheta.
In 2012 he KOd
Simon Kean
Simon Kean (born 11 January 1989) is a Canadian professional boxer. As an amateur he qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics along with countryman Custio Clayton.
Amateur career
Kean was a semi-finalist and third-place finisher in the super-heavy ...
(CAN) and beat
Dominic Breazeale to qualify for the Olympics
he ran right into defending champion
Roberto Cammarelle
Roberto Cammarelle (born 22 March 1980) is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2007 (Chicago) and 2009 (Milan) as a super heavyweight and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. ...
and lost 10:18.
References
1993 births
Living people
Heavyweight boxers
Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Ecuador
Ecuadorian male boxers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Ecuador
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
21st-century Ecuadorian people
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