Orlando Salido
Orlando Salido Rivera ( born November 16, 1980 in Ciudad Obregón ) is a Mexican professional boxer, former world champion of the IBF and WBO featherweight, and again current WBO world featherweight champion.
Boxing career
Salido began in 1996 with the professional boxing and started his career unspectacular. By the end of 2001, he played 24 fights in Mexico and the U.S., including 14 wins, eight losses and two draws. His most important victory that time he managed to Regilio Tuur ( 44-3 ), former WBO world champion in the super featherweight. One of his defeats he suffered against former WBC champion Alejandro Gonzalez ( 47-4 ).
Afterwards, however, he won nine consecutive fights, including against the undefeated U.S. champion Lamont Pearson ( 17-0 ), the two world title challenger Carlos Gerena ( 38-3 ) and Radford Beasley ( 22-2 ), as well as ex-WBO world champion Alfred Kotey ( 24-8 ). On 18 September 2004, he boxed in Las Vegas against Juan Manuel Marquez ( 42-2 ) for the championship title of the WBA and IBF featherweight, but the Mexicans defeated over twelve rounds on points. By following four wins, including against former WBC champion Cesar Soto ( 54-14 ), he received a renewed world title chance against the IBF Robert Guerrero (19-1 ) in November 2006. Salido was the fight on points indeed to decide for himself and was declared the new champion of the IBF, but he was shortly afterwards tested positive for steroids after which the fight in a loose evaluation result ( no contest ) has been canceled. Salido was stripped again after a few days of the IBF title.
But this time he was able to qualify for another world title fight after he defeated Héctor Julio Avila ( 41-3 ) and Renan Acosta ( 21-5 ) each prematurely. The IBF title fight on 23 October 2008 against Cristobal Cruz ( 36-11 ), but he lost almost on points. On May 15, 2010, there came to the rematch with Cruz, the Salido unanimous decision could decide for themselves. However, in the subsequent title unification fight with WBA champion Yuriorkis Gamboa ( 18-0 ), he lost on points. In the fight itself Salido but a precipitate against the Cubans had succeeded.
On 16 April 2011, he surprisingly won the world championship of WBO featherweight by TKO after he had in the eighth round against Juan Manuel Lopez ( 30-0 ) to Puerto ricaner already in the fifth round on the ground. He then defended his title by TKO in the eleventh round against Kenichi Yamaguchi (17-1 ) of Japan and by TKO in the eighth round against Weng Haya ( 15-3 ) from the Philippines. On March 10, 2012, he played a rematch against Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1 ), which he by TKO won in the tenth round. In July of the same year he defeated yet Moises Gutierrez ( 21-4 ) by KO in the third round.
On January 19, 2013 he lost the world title after a hard fight to Miguel Ángel García ( 30-0 ). García dominated the fight clearly and scored in the first four rounds of four precipitation, including two in the first round. In the eighth round, there was an accidental clash with the heads, making the fight was finally stopped on advice of the ringside physician. García had a nasal bone fracture, Salido suffered by the collision through the impact of a fracture of the right orbit. After evaluation of the score sheet on which unanimously García was in the lead with 79:69-79:69-79:70, Miguel Ángel García was declared the new champion. However, this put the title soon down again to ascend into the super featherweight.
On October 12, 2013, boxed in Las Vegas against Orlando Cruz (20-2 ) again to the now vacant WBO world featherweight championship and won the title by a TKO win in the seventh round. On March 1, 2014, he won on points against Vasyl Lomatschenko, the two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion in the amateurs, who played against Salido only his second professional fight.