Ítalo/Ytalo Perea Castillo (born June 10, 1993) is an

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

ian boxer who sensationally won the

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Super Heavyweight title at the age of 18. He is a lefthander but fights from an

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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 Savón and won the senior PanAm title by KOing

Gerardo Bisbal Gerardo Miguel Bisbal Melero (born 11 September 1984 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a heavyweight boxer from Puerto Rico. He is best known for having been the first Puerto Rican boxer to win medals in three Central American and Caribbean Games. He ...

and outpointing Juan Hiracheta. In 2012 he KOd

Simon Kean Simon Kean (born 11 January 1989) is a former Canadian professional boxer. He announced his retirement on 30 January 2024. As an amateur he qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics along with countryman Custio Clayton. Amateur career Kean was a s ...

(CAN) and beat

Dominic Breazeale Dominic Angelo Breazeale (born August 24, 1985) is an American former professional boxer. He has challenged twice for heavyweight world titles; the IBF title in 2016 and the WBC title in 2019. As an amateur, he represented the United States a ...

to qualify for the Olympics In London he ran right into defending champion

Roberto Cammarelle Roberto Cammarelle (born 30 July 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.

Professional boxing record

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* 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Esmeraldas, Ecuador Heavyweight boxers Boxers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Ecuador Ecuadorian male boxers Pan American Games gold medalists for Ecuador Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen {{Ecuador-boxing-bio-stub