Esquiva Florentino

Esquiva Falcão Florentino
Personal information
Full name Esquiva Falcão Florentino
Nationality  Brazil
Born 12 December 1989
Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Light Middleweight(2014-), Middleweight(2014), Super Middleweight(2014)

Esquiva Falcão Florentino (born 12 December 1989 in Vitória, Espírito Santo) is a professional boxer and former amateur boxer from Brazil. The southpaw is the brother of Yamaguchi Falcão and fights at Super Middleweight.

He became famous by winning the Middleweight bronze medal at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships losing his semi to Ryōta Murata.[1] He hereby qualified for the 2012 Olympics.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics (results) he defeated Soltan Migitinov, Zoltán Harcsa and local hero Anthony Ogogo, reaching the Olympic final for the South American nation.[2][3]

Pro career

Falcão was supposed to fight Paul Harness in his debut, but Harness got injured only six days before the event and was replaced by Joshua Robertson. In his debut, he knocked out Joshua Robertson on the fourth round.[4] Falcão's next fight was announced as part of the preliminary card of the Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley rematch event against Publio Pena.[5] He dominated most of the fight and won by unanimous decision over Publio Pena. Two jugdes scored the fight 60-54, and one scored 60-53.[6] Falcão was supposed to face Australian Alex Don, however, Don got injured and was replaced by South Korean Eun-Chang Lee.[7] Falcão defeated Eun-Chang Lee by unanimous decision, the scorecards were 59-55, 59-54 e 58-55, all in favor of Falcão. The fight took place in Macau, China.[8] Esquiva was expected to face Mexican Mike Noriega, but Mike broke his hand.[9] Noriega was replaced by the American Malcolm Terry Jr. and Falcão beat him via TKO in the second round after a second knockdown, the fight was stopped by the referee. The first knockdown came in the first round.[10]

Professional boxing record

8 Wins (5 knockouts, 3 decisions), 0 Losses, 0 Draws[11]
Res. Record Opponent Type Rd., Time Date Location Notes
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win8–0 United States Omar Rojas UD 6 2015-04-11 United States Laredo Energy Arena, Laredo, Texas
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win7–0 United States Mike Tufariello TKO 2 (6), 2:22 2015-02-28 United States USF Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win6–0 United States Lanny Dardar TKO 5 (6), 1:31 2014-12-06 United States Civic Auditorium, Glendale, California
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win5–0 United States Austin Marcum TKO 2 (6), 1:24 2014-10-04 United States Bahia Shrine Temple, Orlando, Florida
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win4–0 United States Malcolm Terry Jr. KO 2 (6), 0:43 2014-08-09 United States Civic Auditorium, Glendale, California Light Middleweight debut.
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win3–0 South Korea Eun-Chang Lee UD 6 2014-05-31 Macau CotaiArena, Macau, SAR
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win2–0 United States Publio Pena UD 6 2014-04-12 United States MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Win1–0 United States Joshua Robertson TKO 4 (6), 2:36 2014-02-15 United States C. Robert Lee Center, Hawaiian Gardens, California Professional boxing debut at Super Middleweight.

References

  1. ↑ AIBA Biographies
  2. ↑ Kevin Mitchell at the ExCeL Arena (10 August 2012). "London 2012: Boxing bronze for GB after Anthony Ogogo loses semi-final | Sport". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Medzhidov and Falcao Florentino on podium at Olympics - World Series of Boxing". Worldseriesboxing.com. 7 August 2012.
  4. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/02/esquiva-falcao-vence-americano-por-nocaute-na-estreia-como-profissional.html#esporte-boxe
  5. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/03/na-preliminar-de-pacquiao-esquiva-enfrentara-americano-publio-pena.html
  6. ↑ http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/esportes,esquiva-falcao-agrada-empresario-em-2-luta-profissional,1153252,0.htm
  7. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/04/esquiva-falcao-enfrenta-australiano-em-sua-terceira-luta-como-profissional.html
  8. ↑ http://atarde.uol.com.br/esportes/noticias/1595777-esquiva-falcao-vence-terceira-luta-no-boxe-profissional
  9. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/es/noticia/2014/07/mike-noriega-quebra-mao-e-esquiva-falcao-aguarda-novo-adversario.html#atleta-esquiva-falcao
  10. ↑ http://globoesporte.globo.com/boxe/noticia/2014/08/sem-perdao-esquiva-falcao-nocauteia-americano-no-segundo-round.html
  11. ↑ . Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.