Amateur Career
Estrada had an outstanding amateur record of 110-7. He won the 2000 Junior Olympic Championship at age 14 and the 2001 Pan-American Games Gold Medal, beating the top Cuban and Puerto Rican boxers in his weight class and age bracket. However, Estrada’s junior amateur career ended abruptly after his brother was killed in a gang-related shooting. In 2007 he lost to Shawn Porter but won the Olympic qualification beating highly touted Danny Jacobs twice. He lost at the first American Olympic qualifier 3:13 to Carlos Góngora but won three bouts at the second qualifier. At the World Championships 2007 he Beat Israel's Artur Zlatopolski and then Japan's Ryota Murata, but was upset by Konstantin Buga of Germany 11-11.
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