Jorge Eliécer Julio
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| Born | Jorge Eliecer Julio Rocha April 4, 1969 El Retén, Colombia | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Reach | 68 in (173 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 49 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 44 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 32 | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 5 | ||||||||||||||
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Jorge Eliécer Julio Rocha (born April 4, 1969) is a Colombian former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003. He is a two-time bantamweight champion, having held the WBA title from 1992 to 1993 and the WBO title from 1998 to 2000. He won a bronze medal in the bantamweight division as an amateur at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Amateur
[edit]At the 1988 Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the men's Bantamweight category after losing to Aleksandar Khristov.
Olympic results
[edit]Below are the results of Jorge Eliecer Julio, a Colombia Bantamweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics:
- Round of 64: Defeated Michael Hormillosa (Philippines) TKO 3
- Round of 32: Defeated Felipe Nieves (Puerto Rico) points
- Round of 16: Defeated Rene Breitbarth (East Germany) points
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Katsuyuki Matsushima (Japan) points
- Semifinal: Lost to Aleksandar Khristov (Bulgaria) points (was awarded bronze medal)
Pro
[edit]Julio turned pro in 1989 and won his first twenty-six fights, culminating on 9 October 1992 with a win over southpaw Eddie Cook for the WBA Bantamweight title. He lost the belt unanimously to Junior Jones in 1993 but was the first to knock Jones down.
He captured the WBO Bantamweight title in 1998 but lost the belt 2000 to Johnny Tapia. His career then began to go downhill, and in 2002, he lost to Manny Pacquiao by TKO and again in 2003 to Israel Vázquez.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b HBO Sports tale of the tape prior to the Manny Pacquiao fight.
External links
[edit]- Boxing record for Jorge Eliécer Julio from BoxRec (registration required)
- databaseOlympics.com
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