Lázaro Álvarez

Lázaro Jorge Álvarez Estrada (born 28 January 1991) is a Cuban amateur boxer who won the world title in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He also won gold medals at the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Pan American Games and bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He is a southpaw.

Lázaro Álvarez
Álvarez at the 2016 Olympics
Statistics
Weight(s)60 kg (132 lb)
Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
NationalityCuban
Born (1991-01-28) 28 January 1991
Pinar del Río, Cuba
Boxing record[1]
Total fights198
Wins170
Wins by KO13
Losses28
Draws0
No contests0
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Álvarez and the second or maternal family name is Estrada.

Career

In the final of 2011 World Championships, he beat Luke Campbell from England after 3 rounds with 14–10 final score.[2][3]

Later that year he also won the 2011 Pan American title vs Mexican Oscar Valdez.[4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing at bantamweight, he beat American Joseph Diaz and Robenílson Vieira of Brazil but lost to Irishman John Joe Nevin 14-19 in the semifinal and won bronze. He lost in the final of the Cuban Championships to Robeisy Ramirez.[4]

After 2012, he moved up to lightweight.

Álvarez won the lightweight title at the 2013 AIBA World Championships, beating Joseph Cordina, Fazliddin Gaibnazarov, Saylom Ardee, Berik Abdrakhmanov and, in the final, Robson Donato Conceicao.[4]

In 2014, he won the Cuban title.[4]

At the 2015 Pan American Games, he won gold, beating Elvis Severino Rodriguez, Kevin Luna and Lindolfo Delgado along the way.[4] That year, he also won the World Series of Boxing final, against Zakir Safiullin.[4]

He won the bronze medal at the men's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing to Conceicao in the semifinal.[5][6]

At the 2019 World Championships, he fought at featherweight, beating Peter McGrail, before losing to Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov in the final.[7][8]

References
  1. "Boxing record for Lázaro Álvarez". BoxRec.
  2. "British duo Andrew Selby and Luke Campbell win world boxing silver". guardian.co.uk. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  3. "WORLD BOXING: Britain forced to settle for three silvers in Baku". epost.co.uk. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  4. "LAZARO ALVAREZ - 60 KG". AIBA. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  5. "Lazaro Jorge Alvarez". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  6. "Robson Conceicao wins a first ever boxing gold for Brazil". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  7. "Lazaro Alvarez is one step closer to his fourth title at AIBA World Boxing Championships". AIBA. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  8. Foster, Elliot (25 September 2019). "McGrail heads home from Russia with bronze". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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