Alberto Machado

Alberto Machado, born Alberto Josué Machado Becerril on September 9, 1990, is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the WBA super featherweight title from 2017 to 2018. He started boxing at ten in Monte Hatillo, San Juan, and although he is right-handed he has boxed as a southpaw ever since. As an amateur he represented Puerto Rico at the 2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships, lost in the second round of the 2012 American Olympic qualification tournament, and had about 168 fights before turning professional at 22. He won his first eight fights before taking the USNBC super featherweight title with a second-round technical knockout of Alvin Torres, scored five consecutive first-round knockouts between 2015 and 2016, and won the NABO super featherweight title with a one-round stoppage of Juan José Martínez.