Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz, born on 30 September 1980, is a Cuban boxer who won Olympic gold in the bantamweight division at both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Games. He was a seven-time Cuban national champion at bantamweight from 2000 to 2006 and ended his amateur career with a record of about 475 fights and 12 losses. As a professional he held the unified WBA Super, WBO and Ring magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017 and the WBA Regular bantamweight title from 2020 to 2021. The trainer Freddie Roach called him probably the greatest talent he had ever seen, and he is known for hand speed, counterpunching and defensive skill.
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