Career
In Belfast at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a Bronze medal. After beating Kenneth Egan he lost to Utkirbek Haydarov (UZB) 28-29.
In Bangkok 2003 he easily beat Haydarov 33:13 but lost to eventual winner Gennadiy Golovkin 26:29 and got another Bronze.
At the PanAm Games 2003 he edged out American southpaw Andre Dirrell 21:20 but was upset in the final by Dominican Juan Ubaldo.
At the Olympics 2004 he beat Haitian-Canadian Jean Pascal and Hungarian Károly Balzsay but lost 11:12 against Andre Dirrell.
2005 he lost in an early round at the national championships but in 2006 he beat the young champion Emilio Correa and regained the Cuban championships. He also won the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games beating among others Argenis Casimiro Núñez in the first round.
Despaigne moved up a division and reached the final of the national championships 2008 where he was upset by 18-year old Julio Cesar La Cruz from Camagüey.
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