Manuel FÃ©lix DÃaz

Manuel Félix Díaz Guzman ( born December 10, 1983 in Santo Domingo ) is a boxer from the Dominican Republic. He was the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion in the light welterweight.

Career

Amateur

Félix Díaz grew up in the Dominican Republic in a poor neighborhood in East Santo Domingo. The young colored came there for the first fought in boxing and lightweight ( up to 60 kg body weight) and moved in 2005 into the Light Welterweight ( up to 64 kg body weight). At a size of 1.65 m, it weighs about 65 kg.

The international career of boxer Félix Díaz began in 2002 at the Junior World Championship in Santiago de Cuba. He defeated there in the lightweight Americans Karl Dargan, but lost in the second round the Russians Dawid Arustamjan, finishing in 9th place. In the same year he won in San Salvador the title at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He landed there three early victories over Stanley Méndez from Costa Rica, Jesús González from Mexico and Alexander de Jesus from Puerto Rico. Finally, he also won the tournament Batalle de Carabobo in Valencia / Venezuela with a victory in the final of the lightweight weight over Wilfredo Lopez of Venezuela in 2002.

In 2003, Félix Díaz participated in the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and came in lightweight to third place. He defeated Ramiro there Quinones from Ecuador and Matias Ferreira from Argentina on points, but lost in the semi-final against world champion Mario Kindelán from Cuba on points. He stayed in this fight against the superior boxer Kindelán excellent because he was defeated only with 12:16 score points.

In 2004, Félix Díaz finished the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Athens in Tijuana / Mexico in lightweight second place, where he could no longer compete for the final battle against Vicente Escobedo from the United States. The second place was enough but out of participation in the 2004 Olympic Games. In Athens, he scored on a bye in the second round on Serik Scheylelow from Kazakhstan, he was defeated by the on points. He came therefore to ninth place.

In 2006, Félix Díaz in domestic Santo Domingo part in the Independence Cup. He launched now in the light welterweight. He won the tournament with wins over Julio de Jesús Rodriguez, Dom. Rep., Myke Carvalho of Brazil and Francisco Contreres, Dom. Rep. In the Copa Romana, 2006 in La Romana, he finished with a victory over Carlos Espinosa of Ecuador and one defeat against Kevin Bizier from Canada to third place.

In 2007 he again took on the Independence Cup in part in Santo Domingo. He lost in the semi- welterweight division after defeating Myke Carvalho in the final against the Cuban master Innocente Fiss on points. He took second place also at the Copa Romana 2007, when in the final he could no longer compete against Rafael González from Venezuela to victories over his countrymen Juan Carlos Abreu, Jose Antonio Rodriguez and Euris Bernardo because of an injury. At the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won first over Gumersindo Carrasco from Argentina by termination in the second round, but lost in the quarterfinals losing to accept Innocente Fiss, who was with 12:13 score points, however, extremely scarce. In 2007 he took then also at the World Amateur Championship in Chicago in part. He won his first fight there on Su Hsiao Ken from Taiwan, but lost the next fight against Masatsugu Kawachi of Japan just after points ( 14:15 ), left and came in the final only to 17th place.

The Olympia 2008 Félix Díaz began again with a start at the Independence Cup. He won there over Kevin Bizier by demolition in the third round, then won over Ualace Almeida from Brazil and Leonardo Castillo, Dom. Rep. on points and lost the final battle of the Cuban masters Rosniel Iglesias just on points (3:4). He then took part in Port of Spain in Trinidad on the first American qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing. He managed this qualification there not because he lost in his first fight against Aaron Hassette from Trinidad on points. The following Qualifying Tournament in Guatemala City then offered him the last opportunity, but still qualify for the Olympic Games. With a knockout victory in the first round of Nicolas Silva from Uruguay and point wins over Leonardo Carrillo of Colombia ( 10:9 ) and Myke Carvalho ( 8:6 ), he then managed the Olympic qualifiers actually still.

In June 2008, Félix Díaz tested then its shape into which he had been brought by the Cuban coach of the Dominican national boxing Pedro Luis Díaz, the tournament for the Golden Belt ( Golden Belt) in the Romanian Constanta. He proved his excellent form, because he won this tournament with a victory in the fourth round demolition on Traian Lupu from Romania, a demolition victory in the second round of Baqtychan Koschabekow from Kazakhstan and one point victory over Alexander Ivanov from Russia.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he won against Eduard Hambardzumjan from Armenia to points ( 11.4), then had his next fight against John Joe Joyce from Ireland a bit of luck, because he won that fight with equal scores of 11:11 only disputed by the counted total number of hits. Then he won over Sepahvandi Morteza from Iran to points ( 11:6 ). His semi-final fight against Alexis Vastine of France won Felix Diaz in controversial circumstances 12-10 points. Alexis Vastine and the French coach threw it in front of the judges to have Vastine pronounced an unauthorized warning shortly before the end of the fight, the Felix Diaz earned two additional points, and thus the exact two -point lead, with whom he won the fight. In the final against the Olympic champion in 2004 at the Light Welterweight Manus Boonjumnong from Thailand Félix Díaz surprised the whole professional world, because he proved clearly superior to the experienced Boonjumnong and won with a safe 12:4 - point win the Olympic gold medal.

After the 2008 Olympics, Felix Diaz became a professional.

Professional

Díaz won his first twelve fights, six of them by knockout. However Among them was not a title fight.

Countries fighting

2008 in Chattanooga, USA against Dom. Rep., Hw point defeat against Daniel O'Connor ( 10:21 )

Championship of Dom. Rep.

2007, Final Hw point winner over Ricardo Garcia

Swell

Trade journal Box Sport from 2002 to 2008
Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
Website " sports123.com "
Website " results.bejing2008.cn "

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