Wellington Arias Romero (born March 13, 1991 - Santo Domingo) is a Dominican amateur lightweight boxer who competed at the 2012 Olympics.

Career

At the 2010 Central American Games he won Bronze. At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships (results) he beat a Gambian and lost to Uzbek

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. At the

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he lost his first bout to Brazilian

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. At the Olympic qualifier he defeated Venezuelan veteran

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Luis Enrique Porozo Luis Enrique Porozo Mina (born June 30, 1990) is an Ecuadorian professional boxer. As an amateur he qualified in the men's featherweight division for the 2008 Summer Olympics as a seventeen-year-old. Porozo, from Pichincha, came in second at ...

(ECU) and Jose Ramírez (USA) to qualify, a final loss to

Félix Verdejo Félix Gabriel Verdejo Sánchez (born May 19, 1993) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the WBO Latino lightweight title from 2015 to 2017. As an amateur he represented Puerto Rico at the 2012 Olympics. In May 2021, Verdejo turned hims ...

was meaningless. At the Olympics he beat Colombian Eduar Marriaga then lost to favorite

Vasyl Lomachenko Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko ( uk, Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, ; also spelled Vasiliy; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes f ...

3:15. Boxing Trainer: Aroz Terrific Gist, Strength and Conditioning Coach: Farrel Brenner

References

1991 births Living people Lightweight boxers Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games competitors for the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic male boxers {{DominicanRepublic-boxing-bio-stub