Edison Miranda

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Edison Miranda

Real name	Edison Miranda
Nickname(s)	Pantera
Rated at	Super middleweight
Height	5'11
Reach	76.5"
Nationality	Colombian
Birth date	January 7, 1981 (1981-01-07) (age 27)
Birth place	Buenaventura, Colombia
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	32
Wins	30
Wins by KO	26
Losses	2

Edison Miranda (January 7, 1981, Buenaventura, Colombia) is a Colombian professional boxer.

1 Biography
2 Professional career
- 2.1 Middleweight
- 2.2 Super middleweight
3 Record
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Miranda was abandoned by his family at one month old and spent the rest of his childhood working in the plantain and yucca fields of Tumaco on the southern coast of Colombia. By the age of nine, he was living completely on his own, sweeping up for a street vendor in the neighboring town of Buenaventura and was working a grown-man's job in construction by the age of 12. Two years later, he worked as a cattle butcher in Barranquilla where he would soon start pursuing boxing. He began his amateur career at the age of 16, winning 128 out of 132 fights, but missed out on the 2000 Colombian Olympic team.^[1]

[edit] Professional career

[edit] Middleweight

132 fights later, Miranda became a professional boxer, but his journey was only halfway over. March 2002 saw the boxer's arrival in the Dominican Republic. Having been promised a shot at going to the United States to fight the top middleweight fighters in the world, Miranda continued with what he's best at – fighting – both in and out of the ring. Struggling to make ends meet, left homeless and hungry by an unfair contract, Miranda left the Dominican Republic and returned to Barranquilla on December 24, 2004. With the support of friends, he fulfilled his dream of making it as a boxer in the United States when he signed with Warrior’s Boxing Promotions and then had his first American fight in Hollywood, Florida on May 20, 2005. In that fight, Miranda defeated Sam Reese by unanimous decision.

[edit] IBF title eliminator

Miranda fought Howard Eastman on March 24, 2006, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Miranda got off to a slow start but showed his tremendous power when consecutive right hands hurt Eastman in the fifth round. The experienced Eastman survived the round and came back strong by hurting Miranda in the next round. Miranda kept throwing his right hand, and in the seventh, he had Eastman hurt badly with a clean right cross to the jaw, followed by a left uppercut and then a vicious right uppercut that nailed Eastman under the chin. The referee stopped the fight, making Miranda the first man to stop Eastman. The victory made Miranda the mandatory challenger for IBF champion Arthur Abraham.^[2]

[edit] IBF title fight

Miranda fought Abraham on September 23, 2006 in Wetzlar, Germany. The fight was not without controversy. After three competitive rounds, Miranda broke Abraham's jaw with a right hand in round four. In round five, Miranda headbutted Abraham on the right side of his face. Abraham was seen turning away hurt with his mouth agape. Referee Randy Neumann stopped the fight and during the five minute break, the doctor recommended to stop the fight to what he saw as a broken jaw from a legal punch. The referee decided to continue the fight and deducted two points from Miranda. Abraham fought the reminder of the fight with a visibly broken jaw that was grossly swollen at the end of the fight. In the seventh round, Miranda was docked two more points for low blows that appeared to be on the beltline. Then in the eleventh round, Miranda landed a body shot that hurt Abraham. Abraham signaled that it was low and the referee took another point form Miranda. Miranda lost the fight by unanimous decision.^[3]

[edit] Fights with Gibbs & Green

On December 16, 2006, Miranda fought Willie Gibbs in Miami, Florida. Miranda landed a strong right hand that badly hurt Gibbs, causing him to stagger back into the ropes. Miranda then unloaded a volley of punches, concluding with a right hand followed by a left hook that connected flush on Gibbs' chin, sending him down and out in the first round.^[4]

On March 3, 2007, Miranda won a unanimous decision over Allan Green at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Green knocked down Miranda with a left hook that landed on Miranda's chin in round eight. Despite that, Miranda dominated most of the fight and knocked Green down twice in the final round. The fight was fought at a catchweight of 162 lbs, foreshadowing Miranda's problems at making weight.^[5]

[edit] WBC title eliminator

On May 19, 2007, after losing nearly every round, Miranda was brutally stopped in the seventh round by Kelly Pavlik at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. After getting knocked down the first time in round six, Miranda spit out his mouthpiece, leading to a one-point deduction. It did not help him survive, since he was knocked down again in round six and once more in round seven. Referee Steve Smoger halted the fight with Miranda still down.^[6] The fight was a WBC title eliminator with the winner getting a shot at middleweight champion Jermain Taylor. Pavlik went on to beat Taylor.

[edit] Super middleweight

After the loss to Pavlik, Miranda moved up to super middleweight and fought Henry Porras on October 30, 2007, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Miranda started out slowly, but soon found both his range and rhythm. Porras was a game opponent in the first two rounds, but as Miranda became more comfortable, he found openings in Porras’ defense. Miranda unloaded a powerful barrage of punches on a defenseless Porras to force the referee to step in and stop the fight in the fifth round.^[7]

On January 11, 2008, Miranda viciously knocked out David Banks in the third round at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The fight began with two feeling out rounds that saw Miranda use a consistent left jab to set up rights over the top and underneath of Banks' guard. In round three, Miranda landed a big right hand that caused Banks to collapse backwards and fall awkwardly halfway through the ropes.^[8]

[edit] Record

30 Wins (26 knockouts), 2 Losses
Res.	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Win	David Banks	KO	3 (10), 1:15	2008-01-11	Hollywood, Florida
Win	Henry Porras	TKO	5 (10), 2:45	2007-10-30	Hollywood, Florida
Loss	Kelly Pavlik	TKO	7 (12), 1:54	2007-05-19	Memphis, Tennessee	WBC middleweight title eliminator
Win	Allan Green	Decision (unan.)	10	2007-03-03	San Juan, Puerto Rico
Win	Willie Gibbs	KO	1 (10), 2:59	2006-12-16	Miami, Florida
Loss	Arthur Abraham	Decision (unan.)	12	2006-09-23	Wetzlar, Germany	Abraham retains IBF middleweight title
Win	Howard Eastman	TKO	7 (12), 2:33	2006-03-24	Hollywood, Florida	IBF middleweight title eliminator
Win	Sherwin Davis	KO	3 (12), 0:37	2005-10-21	Hollywood, Florida	Retained WBO Latino and NABA middleweight titles
Win	Hilario Guzman	Decision (unan.)	6	2005-08-26	Hollywood, Florida
Win	Jose Varela	Decision (unan.)	12	2005-06-16	Coconut Creek, Florida	Won vacant WBO Latino, vacant NABA, and vacant IBF Latino middleweight titles
Win	Sam Reese	Decision (unan.)	10	2005-05-20	Hollywood, Florida
Win	Saul Torres	KO	1 (10), 2:59	2005-02-26	Barranquilla, Colombia
Win	Jonalis Reyes	KO	1	2004-12-11	San Pedro, Dominican Republic
Win	Darmel Castillo	TKO	5 (10), 1:14	2003-08-29	Panama City, Panama
Win	Feliberto Alvarez	KO	3 (8)	2003-07-28	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Hector Rodriguez	KO	1	2003-07-25	Moca, Dominican Republic
Win	Meregildo De Los Santos	KO	1	2003-07-20	Cotui, Dominican Republic
Win	Manuel De la Rosa	KO	2	2003-06-14	La Romana, Dominican Republic
Win	Jose Luis Robles	KO	1	2003-04-15	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Hector Arroyo	KO	1	2003-04-10	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Roberto Jimenez	KO	1	2003-04-01	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Joselito Del Rosario	KO	1 (10)	2003-03-21	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Rafael De la Cruz	KO	2	2002-06-15	San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
Win	Joselito Del Rosario	KO	1	2002-06-12	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Nelson Gil	KO	1	2002-06-05	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Win	Jose Chiquillo	KO	1	2001-12-14	Cartagena, Colombia
Win	Alfonso Mosquera	TKO	1 (8), 3:00	2001-10-05	Panama City, Panama
Win	Fidel Sarmiento	KO	2	2001-08-24	Barranquilla, Colombia
Win	Saul Torres	KO	1	2001-05-18	Barranquilla, Colombia
Win	Vidal Diaz	TKO	1 (4)	2001-04-27	Barranquilla, Colombia
Win	Luis Blandon	KO	1 (6)	2001-03-30	Barranquilla, Colombia
Win	Jose Chiquillo	TKO	1	2001-03-16	Barranquilla, Colombia