- Angel Espinosa
Ángel Espinosa Capó (born 1966) is a former
Cuba n amateur boxer best known to dominate the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and capturing the1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships . He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.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.
He added the Panamerican title 1987 at middleweight.
Cuba boycotted the 1988 Olympics, too,
Henry Maske whom Espinosa had defeated three times won Gold.At the 1989 world championships he bested
Sven Ottke but officially lost to local hero Andrei Kurniawka.At his first Olympics in Barcelona 1992 he was washed-up, competed at light-heavy and lost to
Wojciech Bartnik .links
* [http://www.geocities.com/pedrinet/espinosa.html Record]
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