Amateur Career
- Three time United States amateur super heavyweight gold medalist (2001, 2002, 2003)(set record for first super heavyweight to three-peat)
- Three time National PAL amateur super heavyweight gold medalist (2001, 2002, 2003)
- Three time National Challenge super heavyweight gold medalist (2001, 2002, 2003)(set record for first boxer to three-peat)
- United States amateur heavyweight silver medalist (2000)
- United States amateur heavyweight bronze medalist (1999)
- Two time National Junior Olympics gold medalist, 165 and 201 lbs (1996, 1997)
- National Junior Police Athletic League gold medalist (1997)
2003 Male Boxer of the Year by USA Boxing
- Gold medalist at the 2003 Pan American Games (set record by becoming first Non-Cuban to win gold)
FIRST EVER BOXING OLYMPIAN FROM RHODE ISLAND (FOLLOWED BY DEMETRIUS ANDRADE IN 2008 AT THE BEIJING OLYMPICS)
Estrada's results as a United States super heavyweight representative at the 2004 Athens Olympics were:
- Defeated Ma'afu Hawke (Tonga) 30-11
- Lost to Michel López Núñez (Cuba) 7-21 (whom he had previously beaten to win the gold in 2003 Pan American games)
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or career:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what’s good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)