Guillermo Rigondeaux

Who is Guillermo Rigondeaux?

Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz is a Cuban boxer who won the gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division. He is a seven-time Cuban national champion at bantamweight, and currently claims an amateur record of nearly 475 fights with twelve losses; the last of these losses being to Rencise Perez and Bekzat Sattarkhanov in 1998, Waldemar Font in 1999, and most recently against Aghasi Mammadov in 2003. After Rigondeaux's defection in 2009 he turned professional, where he remains undefeated and is the current WBA, WBO and The Ring magazine super bantamweight world champion, whilst the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board recognizes him as the junior featherweight world champion.

Widely considered to be one of the greatest amateur fighters of all time, Rigondeaux has been lauded by boxing trainer Freddie Roach as being: "Probably the greatest talent I've ever seen". A documentary on Rigondeaux is in the works by filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler.