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| Guillermo Rigondeaux | |
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| Born |
September 30, 1980 La Prueba, Santiago de Cuba |
| Nationality |
 Cuba |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 51⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (120 lb; 8.5 st) |
| Style | Boxing |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Boxing record | |
| Total | 4 |
| Wins | 4 |
| By knockout | 3 |
Guillermo Rigondeaux (born September 30, 1980 in La Prueba) is a Cuban professional boxer, who completely dominated as an amateur the bantamweight (– 54 kg) division at the onset of the 21st century.
The southpaw boxer–puncher won gold at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He is also World Champion from 2001 and 2005. His rival was Aghasi Mammadov, but Rigondeaux won all bouts except for their match at the 2003 World Championships.
He was part of the Cuban team that won the 2006 Boxing World Cup.[1]
However, he left his team at the Pan American Games of Rio de Janeiro 2007 to try to fly to Germany in an attempt to sign for a German boxing club; he failed to do that and was eliminated from the national team.
On February 23, 2009, it was reported that Rigondeaux had defected to the United States and was currently in Miami.
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Aug 3, 2007 Despite being announced by Arena Box promotions as being signed and on their way to join their former team mates who defected in January to fight professionally in Germany, Rigondeaux and Lara were found/arrested at a hotel in Cabo Frio in Brazil, and are set to be deported back to Cuba by the end of the week. Although the deportation was due to Rigondeaux "willingly" going back to Cuba, he has been sacked from the national team and will from now on be allowed only to coach. There was speculation that the decision to return had been accelerated by pressures on the deserting boxer's families in Cuba.During his time in Cuba,he was seeking to speak with Cuba's new president Raul Castro to see if he would have been allowed to box again. Now with Roach. He is now managed by gary hide
On February 23 2009, Rigondeaux was announced to have defected along with 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Yudel Johnson, Yordanis Despaigne and Yuniel Dorticos[2] and is now in Miami with a contract in Gary Hyde.[3]. He will be training in the same gym as Yuriorkis Gamboa, Erislandi Lara and Odlanier Solis.[4] and will continue his career as a professional once he completes all the residency requirements.[5]. He left behind his wife Farah Colina , a 7 year old son and a 17 year old stepson in Cuba.[6] He is also reportedly staying in the home of countryman and featherweight contender Yuriorkis Gamboa [7].
Rigondeaux won his first professional fight in May 22 with a third-round TKO over Juan Noriega in Miami. Although he didn't maintain a busy punch volume, Rigondeaux still landed hard shots. Noriega barely countered Rigondeaux's punches and the referee found the opportunity to stop the fight after Rigondeaux connected with a solid right to the head. On July 17 he won his second pro fight against Robert Guillen by first round ko. Rigondeaux wasn't active but he hit Guillen with a great hard counter punch to the body which left him rolling on the canvas in pain.
On September 18, Rigondeaux beat Giovanni Andrade by 3rd round TKO to win the NABA Super Bantamweight title.
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