Angel Espinosa
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Angel Espinosa (right) facing Henry Maske
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Full name | Angel Espinosa Capó | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | October 2, 1966 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||
Rated at | Middleweight | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ángel Espinosa Capó (born October 2, 1966) is a Cuban former amateur boxer best known to dominate the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and capturing the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. A hard hitting Cuban with a southpaw stance one of the most feared in his era was known to have about 300 amateur fights.
Career
In 1983 the hard-hitting southpaw won the junior world championships at junior welterweight by knocking out Meldrick Taylor in round 2. Cuba boycotted the 1984 Olympic Games.
He became 1986 world champion at junior middleweight. Espinosa then added the Panamerican title 1987 at middleweight. Cuba boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics too, Henry Maske whom Espinosa had defeated three times won the gold medal.
At the 1989 world championships he defeated Sven Ottke but officially lost to local hero Andrei Kurniawka. At Espinosa's first Olympics in Barcelona 1992 he was washed-up, competed at light-heavy and lost to Wojciech Bartnik . Angel currently trains amateurs in a boxing gym in Hialeah, Fl named "Hialeah School of Boxing".
References
- Record (Archived 2009-10-25)
- sports-reference
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- Pages with broken file links
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Cuban boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games competitors for Cuba
- Boxers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists