Sergio Mora

Sergio Mora ( born December 4, 1980 in Los Angeles ) is an American boxer. He is a world champion professional boxer in the WBC light middleweight.

Career

Amateur career

Sergio Mora grew up as one of four sons of a single mother who brought by her family as a saleswoman in a department store, in Los Angeles in very modest circumstances. In the playful fighting with his brothers and other like friends revealed that he is very agile and physically fit. He therefore volunteered at age 14 in a gym for boxing training at the age of 15 and played his first amateur fight. Sergio Mora, the Schurr High School in Montebello, visited, was very successful soon in regional California area and was founded in 2000 even Western - champion in the light middleweight division, which brought him to qualify for the U.S. Olympic excretion ( Trials ). He came to this in the final battle against Jermain Taylor, but he lost on points. Jermain Taylor won at the 2000 Olympic Games in Athens then a bronze medal in the light middleweight.

Professional career

Sergio Mora decided to become a professional boxer in the year 2000. His coach was Dean Campos. His first fight, he played on 17 August 2000 in Anaheim, Calif.. and thereby defeated Antonio Maldonaldo from Mexico to points. He was very carefully constructed and completed per year, only about three to four fights. On 15 May 2004, he defeated Chicago in the previously undefeated and also as a great new hope in force Les Ralston after eight rounds on points. In the years 2004 and 2005, he participated in the seminar organized by an American TV company boxing tournament " The Contender". He defeated it in various venues of its competitors Well Turpin, Ishe Smith and Jesse Brinkley and stood on May 24, 2005 in Las Vegas at the final battle of his compatriot Peter Manfredo Jr., North American WBC champion in the light middleweight division, against. He won that fight after seven rounds on points and would pocket a win bonus of $ 1 million.

On 15 October 2005 beat Sergio Mora Peter Manfredo Jr. in Los Angeles and in revenge encounter indeed on points. His goal was to come now to a world championship match of the great world - Boxverbände. On the way, he defeated on 25 August 2006 in Sacramento the IBA Continental Middleweight Champion Eric Regan from the United States after ten rounds on points. On October 16, 2007, he fought a draw in Carson, Calif. , Against his compatriot Elvin Ayala. It was and is the only fight of his career, he has not won. Ayala then punched on 29 March 2008 in Kiel against the IBF world middleweight champion, the German Arthur Abraham and went into the twelfth round ko

Sergio Mora defeated on 11 January 2008 in Cabazon, California, and the Mexican Rito Ruvalcaba on points and got on 7 June 2008 in Uncasville, Connecticut, finally have the chance to become WBC champion in the light middleweight division. He grabbed this opportunity with both hands and, after twelve rounds the unanimous winner on points üver Vernon Forrest from the U.S..

Sergio Mora is nicknamed "The Latin Snake". He got this name due to his looks and his smooth style of fighting, which is less focused on Kos, but with whom he ausboxt his opponents rather classical.