Yudel Johnson

Yudel Johnson Cedeno (born 6 June 1981) is a Cuban boxer. Johnson was a gold medal winner of the Pan American Games in 1999 and the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2006, and silver medalist of the Olympic Games 2004.

Career

Amateur

Johnson won the silver medal at the Pan American Championships in 1998 in the light flyweight (-48 kg) at youth level ( U19).

His first international tournament in the men's area denied Johnson at the 1999 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Mexico City, where he won the gold medal in the Featherweight ( -57 kg ). Shortly after, he also participated in the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, which he surprisingly won. At the world championships in the same year, however, he already retired in the second round against Ramazi Paliani, Turkey ( 11:2 ), from. The Cuban Championships 2000 ended for Johnson in the second round, so that he was not nominated this year for international competitions.

2001 Johnson finished second in the national championships in the welterweight ( -67 kg ). His opponent in the final was Lorenzo Aragon ( 8:4 ). In the same year he appeared at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane and won the tournament with a final victory over Anthony Thompson, USA ( 19:16 ). 2002 Johnson first won the Cuban Championship in the same year also the chemistry Cup in Halle. At the World Cup in Astana, he suggested, inter alia, Daniel Geale, Australia ( RSC 2 ), and Manus Boonjumnong, Thailand ( 15:5 ).

2003 and 2004, Johnson won each of the silver medal at the national championships, where he first time in 2004 in the light welterweight ( -64 kg ) started. Since he prevailed in the internal secretion, Johnson competed in the U.S. Olympic qualifying tournament in Rio de Janeiro, which he won in front skirt Allen, USA ( 23:15 ). At the 2004 Olympics Johnson reached after beating Davis Mwale, Zambia (RSC 3 ), Dilshod Mahmudov, Uzbekistan ( 32:28 ), and Boris Georgiev, Bulgaria ( 13:9 ), the final, which he lost to Manus Boonjumnong ( 17:11 ) and thus won the silver medal.

2005 Johnson went back up to the welterweight division, but was at the Cuban Championships only second behind Erislandy Lara ( 12:7 ). The same result also led the national championships of 2006. During the same year he won the gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games.

After Johnson retired in 2007 already in the second round of the national championships in 2008 and only the second place behind Carlos Banteur ( 15:6 ), he sat down with Guillermo Rigondeaux and Yordanis Despaigne to the USA.

Professional

On 22 May 2009 Johnson played in Miami his first professional fight, which he o in the first round won by technical complex. He defeated his next 11 opponents and denied doing two title fights to the Central American championship of the WBC. In May 2012, Johnson lost his first professional fight against Willie Nelson, USA ( 95:94, 97:92, 97:92 ).

Swell

• Amateur- boxing.strefa.pl
• Boxrec.com

• Boxer ( Cuba)
• Olympian (Cuba)
• Born in 1981
• Man