Jorge Luis Linares Palencia was born on 22 August 1985 and is a Venezuelan professional boxer.
69 Facts About Jorge Linares
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Jorge Linares has held world championships in three weight classes, including the WBC featherweight title from 2007 to 2008; the WBA super featherweight title from 2008 to 2009; and the WBA, WBC and Ring magazine lightweight titles between 2014 and 2018.
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At the age of 17, Jorge Linares moved to Japan at the suggestion of his countryman, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza.
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Jorge Linares wanted to turn pro as soon as possible and he would've had to wait until he turned 18 in Venezuela.
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Jorge Linares made his professional boxing debut managed by the Teiken Boxing Gym in December 2002.
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Jorge Linares was trained by Sendai Tanaka there, and Antonio Esparragoza who was trained by Tanaka's master Amilcar Bursa gave Linares the nickname of El Nino de Oro.
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Jorge Linares made his debut at the age of 17 at featherweight.
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Jorge Linares knocked out Kyong-Soo Chung in the first round of their scheduled four round fight.
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Jorge Linares's next fight took place in February 2003, a six-round bout against Chawal Sor Vorapin at the famous Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
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Vorapin was dropped in round 1 and Jorge Linares was down in round 2 as the fight went to the scorecards.
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Jorge Linares was knocked down for the first time in his career in round 2.
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Jorge Linares beat the count and knocked Sotelo down twice in round 2 forcing a stoppage win.
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Jorge Linares spent the next year fighting in Venezuela, Japan and South Korea.
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Jorge Linares fought former WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar Larios for the vacant WBC interim featherweight title.
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Jorge Linares dominated the action with his jab combinations and power punches which consequently backed up Larios, although he remained competitive.
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Jorge Linares made the first defense of his world title against former NABF featherweight champion Gamaliel Diaz on 15 December 2007 at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico.
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Jorge Linares floored Diaz with a counter right hand in round eight, winning the bout via KO.
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Jorge Linares relinquished the title on 13 August 2008, in order to move up to super featherweight.
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Eleven months after his last fight, Jorge Linares challenged 27 year old Whyber Garcia for the vacant WBA super featherweight title.
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Jorge Linares won the fight and claimed the vacant WBA title via fifth-round technical knockout.
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On 27 June 2009 Jorge Linares made his first defense against former Mexico lightweight champion Josafat Perez, who was moving down in weight, in Mexico.
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Jorge Linares retained the title following an over right to the head of Perez which floored him.
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Jorge Linares signed a contract with the Golden Boy Promotions in September 2009 whilst still remaining Teiken Promotions.
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Jorge Linares lost his WBA super featherweight title and his unbeaten streak after being knocked out in round one.
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Jorge Linares got back up, only to be attacked straight away with a barrage of left and right jabs to the head and body flooring him again, prompting the stoppage.
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Jorge Linares took five months out before returning to Venezuela defeating 38 year old former interim WBC super featherweight champion Francisco Lorenzo in a scheduled 10 round bout via majority decision.
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Jorge Linares defeated Mexico's Adrian Verdugo by a technical knockout in the seventh round of a ten-round lightweight bout in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, on 28 May 2011.
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Jorge Linares fought for the vacant WBC lightweight title against Antonio DeMarco at the Staples Center on 15 October 2011.
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Jorge Linares outlanded DeMarco 216 to 97 in overall punches landed, but lost by TKO after suffering a major cut on his nose eventually allowing DeMarco to begin pounding on it, forcing the referee to stop the fight in the eleventh round.
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However, Jorge Linares lost to Sergio Thompson in a WBC Lightweight title eliminator via a second round stoppage in Cancun, Mexico on 31 March 2012.
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The end came when Jorge Linares hit Terry with a left hook, which staggered him, followed by a right hand to the cheekbone.
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On 10 November 2014 the WBC ordered Jorge Linares to fight their Silver lightweight champion and contender Javier Prieto for the vacant WBC lightweight title.
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Jorge Linares became the youngest Venezuelan to win a world title in three different weight divisions at the age of 29 and only the second from Venezuela after Leo Gamez, who was a four-division world champion, when he knocked Prieto out in four rounds to claim the WBC title in his second attempt.
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The end came when Jorge Linares connected with an overhand right to the side of Prieto's head, knocking him down and out.
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Jorge Linares was dropped in round five but went on to retain his world title in round 10 via technical knockout.
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Jorge Linares traveled back to his home country Venezuela for only the fourth time in his 12-year professional career and first time since 2010, to make a voluntary defence against 27 year old Mexican contender Ivan Cano at the El Poliedro in Caracas on October 10,2015.
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Jorge Linares knocked Cano out in round four to retain his WBC title.
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Jorge Linares was later stripped of the title, but made aware he had the option to fight for the belt when his hand injury had healed.
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Jorge Linares won the WBA lightweight title and claimed the vacant The Ring Magazine and WBC Diamond title after winning the bout via unanimous decision.
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An official announcement was made on 4 January 2017 for the fight take place at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, a city which Jorge Linares said was open to returning to.
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On fight night, in front of 13,000 fans, Jorge Linares dropped Crolla in the seventh round with a left uppercut, and went the distance to win by wider margins than the first fight.
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Crolla started off well hitting to body, but Jorge Linares quickly capitalized and started connected well to the body and landing combinations of uppercuts.
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Jorge Linares put in a more solid and dominant performance than their first encounter.
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Jorge Linares caught me but before that I thought I could get to him.
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Jorge Linares reportedly moved to London with his wife and kids and was said to start his training camp with trainer Ismael Salas.
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On 21 July 2017 the WBA ordered Jorge Linares to make a mandatory defence against Luke Campbell.
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In front of 4,125, Jorge Linares won his 12th straight fight, retaining his WBA world title after 12 rounds against Campbell.
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Jorge Linares dropped Campbell with a straight right hand to the head in round 2.
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Jorge Linares later told HBO that he wanted to reduce his amount of offense so that he wouldn't get hurt.
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Once the championship rounds started, Jorge Linares regained control of the fight.
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On 27 November Golden Boy Promotions announced a double-header which would kick off 2018, with Jorge Linares headlining the card, defending his WBA and The Ring Magazine titles against Filipino boxer Mercito "No Mercy" Gesta.
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In front of 6,143 at the Forum, Jorge Linares outclassed Gesta in handing him a defeat by a 12-round unanimous decision and retained his world titles.
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Jorge Linares started to let his hands go more in the championship rounds when Linares appeared to slow down.
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Jorge Linares's corner were able to control the cut and it did not bother him for the remainder of the fight.
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CompuBox showed that Jorge Linares landed 171 out of 585 punches thrown and Gesta landed 120 of his 515 punches thrown.
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On 30 January Top Rank's Bob Arum told ESPN that negotiations had begun in December 2017 for a fight between two-weight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and Jorge Linares after speaking to Teiken Promotions, Jorge Linares' lead promoter, with the fight to take place on either 28 April or 12 May 2018.
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Jorge Linares slowly beat the count but looked too hurt to continue.
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Jorge Linares dropped Cotto with a right hand to the head in round 2.
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In round 3, Jorge Linares knocked Cotto down with a hard right hand.
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Jorge Linares showed he was able to carry his power up in weight.
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Jorge Linares landed 58 of 132 shots while Cotto landed only 20 of 103 punches.
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In round 3 alone, Jorge Linares landed 18 of 25 power shots.
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In October 2018, the WBC stated they would likely order Jorge Linares to fight Adrien Broner in a final eliminator, as long as they abide by the code of ethics.
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Hearn planned for Chris Algieri and Jorge Linares fight in separate bouts on his 18 January 2019 DAZN card.
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DAZN announced Jorge Linares would fight 29 year old veteran Pablo Cesar Cano on the card, which would take place at the Hulu Theater in New York City.
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Jorge Linares dropped his opponent twice en route to a fourth-round KO win.
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Haney controlled the action for most of the fight, but was hurt when Jorge Linares caught him with a powerful right-left combination toward the end of the tenth round.
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Jorge Linares was booked to challenge the reigning WBC Silver lightweight champion Zaur Abdullaev on February 19,2022.
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Jorge Linares was knocked down twice, before being stopped with a flurry of punches at the 2:28 minute mark of the last round.