Armando Santos Explained

Armando Santos
Realname:Armando Santos Marcelo
Nickname:Cobra
Weight:Flyweight
Height:1.65 m
Reach:165 cm
Birth Date:25 May 1988
Birth Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Style:Orthodox
Total:22
Wins:15
Draws:1
Losses:5
No Contests:0
Ko:8

Armando Santos Marcelo (born 25 May 1988) is a Mexican professional boxer who won the NABF flyweight title in 2013.

Professional career

Santos rose to prominence with an initial 7-1 record, mostly fighting in his hometown Mexico City. He then traveled to Tokyo, where he lost by unanimous decision to future WBC and The Ring flyweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi on November 6, 2010.

His next tough loss came on June 17, 2011, where he lost by UD against Carlos Cuadras, coincidentally a future WBC super flyweight champion himself.

Santos won his next two fights, and subsequently received his first title shot. He knocked Herald Molina out in the second round on May 25, 2013 in León, Guanajuato for the vacant NABF flyweight championship.[1]

He won the minor WBC–USNBC flyweight title three months later in Toluca, when he defeated Roilo Golez by UD.[2]

Santos also captured the IBF International flyweight title in February 2014, after beating the EBU flyweight champion, Silviu Olteanu by majority decision in Mexico City.[3]

Professional boxing record

| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|14 Wins (8 knockouts, 6 decisions), 5 Losses (2 knockouts, 3 decisions), 1 Draws[4] |- style="text-align:center; background:#e3e3e3;"| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Res.| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Record| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Opponent| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Type| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Rd., Time| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Date| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Location| style="border-style:none none solid solid; "|Notes|- align=center|Loss|align=center|14–5–1||align=left| Cesar Javier Gandara||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|14–4–1||align=left| Johnriel Casimero||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|style="background: #B0C4DE"| Draw|align=center|14–3–1||align=left| Javier Franco||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|14–3||align=left| Silviu Olteanu||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|13–3||align=left| Juan Jiménez||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|12–3||align=left| Roilo Golez||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|11–3||align=left| Herald Molina||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|10–3||align=left| Edgar Gonzalez||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|9–3||align=left| Omar Lina||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|8–3||align=left| Carlos Cuadras||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|8–2||align=left| Miguel Angel Chi||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|7–2||align=left| Toshiyuki Igarashi||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|7–1||align=left| Miguel Garcia||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|6–1||align=left| Angel Aguilar||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|5–1||align=left| Jesús Periban||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|4–1||align=left| Felipe Jimenez||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|3–1||align=left| Geovani Vargas||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|2–1||align=left| Cesar Rojas||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Loss|align=center|1–1||align=left| Arturo Zamora||||align=left||align=left||- align=center|Win|align=center|1–0|| align=left| Alan Barron||||align=left||align=left|

Notes and References

  1. News: Armando "Cobra" Santos strikes to win a short war!. May 26, 2013. World Boxing Council. October 3, 2015.
  2. News: Roilo Golez, Mateo Handig suffer UD defeats in Mexico. Rich. Mazon. August 25, 2013. PhilBoxing. October 5, 2015.
  3. News: Armando Santos Doblega Al Rumano Olteanu. Spanish. February 3, 2014. Boxeo Tijuana. October 5, 2015.
  4. Web site: Armando Santos Professional boxing record. BoxRec. September 30, 2015.