Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz is a Cuban professional boxer.
66 Facts About Guillermo Rigondeaux
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Guillermo Rigondeaux is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA, WBO and Ring magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017, and the WBA bantamweight title from 2020 to 2021.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux has challenged once for the WBO junior lightweight title in 2017.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux is a seven-time Cuban national champion at bantamweight, finishing his amateur career with a record of nearly 475 fights with 12 losses; the last of these losses occurring in 2003.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux finished his amateur career having 386 fights under his belt, with a record of 374 wins, 12 losses.
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In February 2009, Guillermo Rigondeaux defected again via Mexico City to Miami, and signed with Arena Box-Promotion.
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On 23 February 2009, Guillermo Rigondeaux was announced to have defected along with 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Yudel Johnson, Yordanis Despaigne and Yuniel Dorticos.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux left behind his wife Farah Colina, a 7-year-old son and a 17-year-old stepson in Cuba.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was reportedly staying in the home of countryman and featherweight contender Yuriorkis Gamboa.
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On 16 December 2009, Guillermo Rigondeaux won a unanimous decision over Lante Addy in 8 rounds, dropping Addy once in round one.
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On 5 February 2010, Guillermo Rigondeaux scored a first-round knockout against Adolfo Landeros, dropping Landeros with a hard left uppercut to the body.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux then signed a three-year contract with Bob Arum's Top Rank in July 2010.
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On 13 November 2010, Guillermo Rigondeaux fought Ricardo Cordoba on the undercard of the WBC super welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito at the Cowboys Stadium, Dallas, in front of 41,734 people.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux knocked Cordoba down in the fourth round with a body shot, but was judged to be knocked down himself in the sixth, in what appeared to be a slip.
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On 19 March 2011, Guillermo Rigondeaux fought Willie Casey at the City West Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was up immediately and received a mandatory eight-count.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was able to make it to his feet but was visibly wobbled.
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On 20 January 2012, Guillermo Rigondeaux won the full WBA super bantamweight title by knocking out champion and The Ring magazine's No 2 ranked super bantamweight, Rico Ramos, in the sixth round.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux quickly moved into range and fired the left hand both to the body and upstairs.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was up quickly and received a mandatory eight-count.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux attacked but Ramos gathered himself and finished the round.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was warned in round 6 for pulling down the back of Ramos' head.
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Immediately after the warning, Guillermo Rigondeaux came forward with a barrage and landed a clean left hand to the body that sent Ramos to the canvas grimacing in pain.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux remained down on his back as the referee reached the count of ten.
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On 9 June 2012, Guillermo Rigondeaux made the first defence of his WBA super bantamweight title against Teon Kennedy on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley WBO welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux knew the split decision victory against Ricardo Cordoba did not please the HBO people, and learned from it the importance of aggressiveness.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux did not want to make the same mistake as he did two years ago.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux impressively stopped Kennedy in the fifth round after knocking him down five times, all with his left cross, leading Kennedy to say "He just hits you with punches that you can't see".
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On 15 September 2012, Guillermo Rigondeaux fought Roberto Marroquin on the undercard of the Sergio Martinez vs Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux gave his young opponent the first knockdown of his career in the fifth-round and scored another knockdown in the twelfth.
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On 13 April 2013, Guillermo Rigondeaux fought in a unification bout against WBO and The Ring champion Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall, New York.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux left his trainer Jorge Rubio in order to start training with his former amateur trainer Pedro Diaz for this fight.
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In front of a sellout crowd of 6,145, Guillermo Rigondeaux defeated Donaire by unanimous, though the fight was considered much wider than the scorecards indicated, becoming the unified WBA, WBO, The Ring and lineal super bantamweight champion.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux would continue to land the cleaner punches and dip out of range from Donaire for the first nine rounds of the fight.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux appeared to hurt Donaire with a straight left early in the twelfth-round, when Donaire covered up a severely swollen right eye and began bleeding from his mouth.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux ended the round and fight targeting Donaire with his left hand, backing Donaire up.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux landed 129 of 396 punches thrown and Donaire landed 82 of his 352 thrown.
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Donaire's purse was $1.32 million and Guillermo Rigondeaux earned a career-high $750,000 purse.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was next scheduled to fight former bantamweight titlist Joseph Agbeko on 7 December 2013, at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux retained his WBA, WBO, The Ring and lineal super bantamweight titles via unanimous decision, winning every round on all three judges scorecards.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was open to the idea but stated if the fight was to take place again, Donaire would need to accept the fight at 123 pounds and weigh no more than 133 the next day.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux won the bout, after the fight was stopped halfway through the first round.
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Kokietgym hit the canvas due to a hard, accidental clash of heads, he was given time to recover, however when he got up, the two touched gloves as respect before Guillermo Rigondeaux threw an ungentlemanly 'sucker punch' right hook to end the fight while they touched gloves with the other glove.
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On 31 December 2014, Guillermo Rigondeaux retained his titles against Japan's Hisashi Amagasa at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium, Osaka, Japan.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux won the fight via unanimous decision in a very one-sided fight to claim the vacant WBC International Silver super bantamweight title.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was scheduled to fight Liverpool's James 'Jazza' Dickens on 12 March 2016, at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, England, on the undercard of Terry Flanagan vs Derry Matthews.
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On 14 May 2016, Guillermo Rigondeaux was reinstated as the WBA super bantamweight champion due to Carl Frampton being stripped of the belt for failing to negotiate his first defence.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux retained his belts after breaking Dickens, jaw in round 2 with a huge left hand.
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On 20 July 2016, in their continued desire to reduce the number of champions, the WBA ordered Guillermo Rigondeaux to make a mandatory defence of his title against their interim titleholder, 29-year-old Mexican boxer Moises Flores.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux retained his WBA and lineal titles as well as claim the IBO super bantamweight title after controversially knocking Flores out at the end of round 1.
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Whilst Flores missed his shots, Guillermo Rigondeaux landed a hook to the head after the bell.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux went on to say that it could turn out as a disqualification loss for Rigondeaux.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux stated if the bout with Rigondeaux was made, it would likely take place at the Madison Square Garden Theatre and a potential rematch with Salido would take place in Los Angeles.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux stated that special permission was granted because the bout was 'an important fight for boxing'.
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On fight night, Lomachenko weighed 137.4 pounds and Guillermo Rigondeaux weighed 130 pounds.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux said he could not continue because he broke his hand during the fight; it was later revealed that it was bruised, not broken.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux became Lomachenko's fourth consecutive opponent to retire on his stool.
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The loss marked the first time Guillermo Rigondeaux had lost since 2003, when he was still an amateur.
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On 20 November 2018, it was reported that Guillermo Rigondeaux started training with Veteran trainer Ronnie Shields.
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In December 2018, it was announced that Guillermo Rigondeaux would fight journeyman Giovanni Delgado at the super featherweight limit on 13 January 2019, at the Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux's opponent was confirmed to be former WBC interim champion Julio Ceja, with the fight being a WBC eliminator.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was scheduled to fight Liborio Solis on 21 December 2020, for the vacant WBA bantamweight title.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux challenged the reigning WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero on 14 August 2021.
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On 26 February 2022, Guillermo Rigondeaux suffered the third professional defeat of his career, losing a shock ten-round unanimous decision to the unheralded Vincent Astrolabio at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux was knocked down by a jab and straight right hand in the eighth round.
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In March 2022, Guillermo Rigondeaux suffered serious eye injuries in a pressure cooker accident at his home in Miami.