Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros (born April 28, 1974) is a former

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from Cuba, who was a two-time world champion in the

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category.

Amateur career

Aragón took up boxing at the age of 12. In 1991, a 17-year old Aragón won a bronze medal in Playa Girón, Cuba's national amateur boxing tournament. Aragón became the youngest boxer to ever medal in that competition. In 1992, Aragón would go on to win the tournament win the

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gold medal in the

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1992. He competed at the 1996 Olympics as a featherweight, losing in the quarterfinals to

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. Aragón got a flash knockdown over Mayweather but he'd lose by a single point. Between 1992 and 2004, Aragón won the Playa Girón tournament 10 times across 6 different weight classes, defeating boxers like Mario Kindelan,

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, and

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.> Aragón would eventually settle in the welterweight division, where he won several international competitions. Aragón won the 2001 World Championships at

, beating Anthony Thompson in the final. He repeated his win in 2003 defeating

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in the semifinals and Sherzod Husanov in the final bout. Aragón was also the 2003 Pan American Games champion in the same division. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal. He beat Vanes Martirosyan in the semifinals. In the final, Aragón was upset by surprise winner

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with a score of 36-26. Prior to the Athens Games he won the 2004 Acropolis Boxing Cup in Athens, Greece by defeating Ruslan Khairov in the final of the welterweight division.

Olympic results

1996 (Featherweight) *Defeated Nouzedinne Medjihoud (Algeria) 9-6 *Defeated Rogerio de Brito (Brazil) 16-6 *Lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. (United States) 11-12 2004 (Welterweight) *Defeated Theodoros Kotakos (Greece) RSC-3 (1:29) *Defeated Vanes Martirosyan (United States) 20-11 *Defeated Ruslan Khairov (Azerbaijan) 16-14 *Defeated Kim Jung-Joo (South Korea) 38-10 *Lost to

(Kazakhstan) 36-26

World championship results

2001

*Defeated Ryan Savage (Canada) RSC 3 *Defeated Bae Ho-Jo (South Korea) RSC 3 *Defeated Timour Gaidalov (Russia) 27-15 *Defeated Sherzod Husanov (Uzbekistan) RSC 2 *Defeated Anthony Thompson (United States) 27-15

2003

*Defeated Vilmos Balog (Hungary) 23-8 *Defeated Bulent Ulusoy (Turkey) 18-17 *Defeated Spas Genov (Bulgaria) 24-15 *Defeated

Non Boonjumnong Non Boonjumnong ( th, นน บุญจำนงค์; , born June 12, 1982 as Manon Boonjumnong) is a Thai amateur boxer who won silver at welterweight at the World Championships 2007. In the older tournaments he is listed as "Manon". Career ...

(Thailand) RSC 2 *Defeated

(United States) 25-15 *Defeated Sherzod Husanov uzb.,17:9

Other amateur highlights

*1992 Cuban amateur flyweight champion *1992 Under-19 flyweight world champion. *1994 Cuban amateur bantamweight champion *1994 Pan-American bantamweight champion *1995 Cuban amateur lightweight champion *1996 Cuban amateur featherweight champion *1997 Cuban amateur lightweight champion *1998 Cuban amateur Light welterweight champion *1999 Cuban amateur welterweight champion *2001 Cuban amateur welterweight champion *2003 Cuban amateur welterweight champion *2003 gold medalist at Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Results were: **Defeated Fabián Leonardo Velardes (Argentina) 23-4 **Defeated Euris Gonzalez (Dominican Republic) 25-4 **Defeated

Juan McPherson Juan McPherson (born June 26, 1984) is a retired male boxer from the United States. He won a silver medal in the men's welterweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games, and earned the right to go to the 2004 Summer Olympics. Instead Canada' ...

(United States) 30-11 *2004 Cuban amateur welterweight champion

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aragon, Lorenzo 1974 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Cuba Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in boxing People from Cienfuegos Province Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games