Guillermo Mosquera Explained

Guillermo Mosquera
Birth Name:Guillermo Mosquera
Birth Date:26 October 1964
Birth Place:Buenaventura, Colombia
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Other Names:La Pantera
Nationality:Colombian
Weight Lb:140
Weight Class:Super Lightweight
Stance:Orthodox
Years Active:1985 – 2001
2004
2006 – 2010
2012
Box Win:42
Box Kowin:21
Box Loss:10
Box Koloss:5
Box Draw:3
Boxrec:14179

Pantera Guillermo Mosquera (26 October 1964 – 4 December 2017), known professionally as La Pantera, was a professional boxer and a boxing trainer. During his professional boxing career, Mosquera fought in 9 different countries including Colombia, Italy, New Zealand, Australia and more. Mosquera won multiple credible titles including WBC International Super Lightweight Title, WBAPABA Super Lightweight Title and the World Boxing Foundation World Super Lightweight Title. He started his professional career in Colombia but eventually Mosquera moved to Italy in the mid to late 1980s. In the 1990s, Mosquera moved to New Zealand where he eventually won the New Zealand national title in 2004. While in New Zealand, Mosquera started training boxers. His most notable boxer was Adrian Taihia while he was in The Contender Australia.[1] Mosquera ended his career in Spain in 2012 where he lived in Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana. Mosquera lived the remainder of his life in Italy where he owned a boxing gym.[2] In 2017, after a long battle, Mosquera died of cancer. He had his funeral at the church of the SS Annunziata in Via del Sole.[3]

Boxing Titles

Professional boxing record

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boxer ready for the fight of his life . https://web.archive.org/web/20091202002914/http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/auckland-city-harbour-news/3025503/Boxer-ready-for-the-fight-of-his-life . 2009-12-02 . 24 December 2017 . Stuff NZ.
  2. Web site: My story . Pantera Boxing . 24 December 2017.
  3. Web site: Mourning in the boxing of the shoreline: in Marina di San Nicola the funeral of Guillermo Mosquera . Baraonda news . 24 December 2017 . 24 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171224213605/http://www.baraondanews.it/c/159117/13174/lutto-nella-boxe-del-litorale--a-marina-di-san-nicola-i-funerali-di-guillermo-mosquera.html . dead .
  4. Web site: Ranee Ganoy Makes Guillermo Mosquera Fold in Two . Boxing Scene . 24 December 2017.
  5. Web site: WBC International Champions . WBC . 24 December 2017.
  6. Web site: New Zealand Boxing Ratings – September 2007 . Fight Times . 24 December 2017.
  7. Web site: Guillermo Mosquera . BoxRec . 24 December 2017.