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Full name | Angel Espinosa Capó | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Holguín, Cuba | 2 October 1966|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 April 2017 Miami, Florida, US | (aged 50)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Middleweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ángel Espinosa Capó (2 October 1966 – 12 April 2017) was a Cuban amateur boxer who dominated the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and captured the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics (as well as the 1985 Boxing World Cup boycott.) A hard-hitting Cuban with a southpaw stance one of the most feared in his era was known to have about 300 amateur fights.[2]
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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.
On two occasions when Cuban government boycotted the Boxing World Cup in 1985, and the Summer Olympics in 1988, gold winner in the middleweight class was East German Henry Maske, whom Espinosa defeated three times unanimously in 1987–88.
At the 1989 world championships he defeated Sven Ottke but lost to local hero Andrey Kurnyavka. At Espinosa's first Olympics in Barcelona 1992 he competed at light-heavy and lost to Wojciech Bartnik . Angel trained amateurs in a boxing gym in Hialeah, Fl named "Hialeah School of Boxing" before his passing.
Angel was found dead at a gym in Miami. Cause of death is still undetermined.
References
- Record (Archived 2009-10-25)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Angel Espinosa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Angel Espinosa Biography and Olympic Results at Sports-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Muere en Miami el ex boxeador cubano y campeón mundial Ángel Espinosa Capó". mundodeportivo.com. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.