Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (born September 30, 1980 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer who won the gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the Bantamweight (54 kg) class. Rigondeaux is a seven-time (2000–06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight. He currently claims an amateur record of nearly 400 fights with twelve losses; with his last losses coming to Rencise Perez and Bekzat Sattarkhanov in 1998, Waldemar Font in 1999, and his most recent loss against Aghasi Mammadov in 2003. After his defection in 2009, he turned professional. He is the current WBA Super Bantamweight Champion. Guillermo Rigondeaux is widely considered to be one of the greatest amateur fighters of all time. According to Freddie Roach, Rigondeaux is probably the greatest talent he has ever seen.

Filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler is making a documentary about Rigondeaux.