| Yankiel Rivera | |
| Nationality: | Puerto Rican |
| Birth Name: | Yankiel Rivera Figueroa |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Toa Alta, Puerto Rico |
| Total: | 5 |
| Wins: | 5 |
| Ko: | 2 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (born September 10, 1997) is a Puerto Rican flyweight boxer. He is the only boxer in his country who qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]
Rivera won bronze at the Pan American Youth Championships in Quito in 2014.[2] He lost to Leandro Blanc in the quarter-finals of the 2016 continental Olympic qualification in Buenos Aires[3] and competed at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, where he lost to the eventual runner-up Jasurbek Latipov in the preliminary round.[4] At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla[5] and also at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, he won a bronze medal in the flyweight division.[6]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American-continental Olympic qualification tournament in Buenos Aires planned for May 2021 was canceled and a qualification based on the continental ranking was decided instead, which secured Rivera a starting place as number 3 in the ranking.[7]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Win | 5-0 | Victor Sandoval | UD | 10 | June 15, 2024 | Coliseo Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu, Manati, Puerto Rico. | WBC Continental AmericasWBO Intercontinental (Vacant) | |
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Christian Robles | UD | 8 | Jun 24, 2023 | |||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Fernando Diaz | 8 | Feb 4, 2023 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Ramon Velasquez | KO | 3 (6) | Nov 19, 2022 | |||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Jose Antonio Jimenez | 1 (6) | Sep 24, 2022 |