Eliseo Castillo (born April 29, 1975) is a Cuban former

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who competed from 1996 to 2009, holding the NABO cruiserweight title in 2006. He is the younger brother of Heavyweight boxer

Elieser Castillo Elieser Ramos Castillo (born October 25, 1970) is a Cuban professional boxer in the heavyweight division. Amateur career Elieser Castillo Ramos was part of the legendary Cuban boxing program before he defected to the United States. Defecting to ...

Amateur career

From the ages of 12 through 16, he

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to box through the Cuban state government's amateur boxing program. (This is the same program that produced such boxing legends as Teofilo Stevenson,

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, and

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.) Despite winning the vast majority of his approximately 90 amateur bouts in

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, the young fighter could not manage to capture an international title.

Defection from Cuba

At the age of 17, Eliseo Castillo escaped from Cuba on a raft with his brothers Elieser (a very well known fellow Heavyweight boxer) and Eliades and two other friends. The group spent five days at sea before they drifted ashore in

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. Soon thereafter, they were returned to Guantanamo Bay. After 18 months of processing the group was allowed to emigrate to the United States. He then moved to

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Professional career

At the age of 20, he began his professional career as a boxer. His first bout was against Anthony Mack (who was also making his professional debut that evening) on February 24, 1996. Castillo won the bout via first round knockout. He fought off-and-on into the new millennium, at one time even taking 3 years off from the sport. Though his career has been spotty, he still managed to remain undefeated up until April 2005. The only blemish on his record up until that point was a draw to Terry Pitts (who later changed his name to Sajad Abdul Aziz) on November 13, 1998 at the famed Mahi Shrine Temple Auditorium in Miami. Aziz was able to score knockdowns in both the 4th and 5th rounds, but Castillo fought back and secured a majority draw. These fights were at cruiserweight. His biggest victory came on July 3, 2004 against former Heavyweight champion

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at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. He beat the former champion by a unanimous decision in their 10-round bout. This brought him some level of attention from the boxing press and garnered for him a fight with

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the following year. At 2:51 in the fourth round, Klitschko was declared the victor after referee Daniel Van de Wiele stopped the fight. Shortly after the fight with Klitschko, Castillo moved back down to the Cruiserweight division. He has won two straight since the Klitschko loss and was KOd by, the then undefeated,

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on July 26, 2006.

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Castillo, Eliseo 1975 births Living people Cuban male boxers Boxers from Havana Cruiserweight boxers