José Luis Meza (born September 24, 1984 in
Zamora-Chinchipe) is a boxer from
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 ...
who qualified for the Olympics 2008 at light-flyweight.
Career
Meza is the youngest of 10 brothers.
In the qualifier he beat every opponent including the decorated Odilion Zaleta to make it to Beijing. There he lost his first bout 8:14 to
Paddy Barnes (
Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Light flyweight
The Light Flyweight class in the boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics competition is the lightest class. Light flyweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 48 kilograms (105.8 lbs).
29 boxers Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - ...
).
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Qualifier
1984 births
Living people
Light-flyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Ecuador
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Ecuadorian male boxers
People from Zamora-Chinchipe Province
21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen
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