Yordenis Ugás

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ugás and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.
Yordenis Ugás

Ugás at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Medal record
Competitor for  Cuba
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing Lightweight
World Amateur Championships
2005 Mianyang Lightweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
2006 Cartagena Lightweight
Pan American Games
2007 Rio Lightweight
World Cup
2005 Moscow Lightweight

Yordenis Ugás Hernández (born July 14, 1986 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban amateur boxer best known to win the lightweight 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships at age 19 following Mario Kindelan.

Career

Ugás was U17 (cadets) world champion in 2003 but lost at the junior championships 2004 to Amir Khan. On other occasions he lost twice to countryman Luis Franco at featherweight, he finished third aththe nationals 2004 at featherweight.

In 2005 he moved up to lightweight where he was more successful, winning the Cuban Championships 2005 to 2008 and turning into a star. He won a tournament called PanAm Championships (not the PanAm Games) in 2005, however in other tournaments he lost twice to Kazach southpaw Serik Sapiyev.

At the Senior World Championships 2005 he suffered two heavy knockdowns by Canadian southpaw Ibrahim Kamal in his third fight but managed to win. Manilatimes writes:"But for two fleeting moments Thursday, unheralded Canadian lightweight Ibrahim Kamal showed the world that the Cubans, arguably the number-one force in amateur boxing, may have jaws of glass after all. The University of Toronto student knocked down Yordanis Ugas in the first and second rounds with two sledgehammer lefts to the side of the chin. But then the Canadian southpaw hurt one knee as he and Ugas wrestled each other to the floor on the third round, leaving him effectively fighting on one leg." Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaijan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan." It describes him "a tall, bony lightweight with a deceptively languid fighting style"

In 2006 he won the Central American Championships.

He was part of the Cuban team that won the 2006 Boxing World Cup.[1]

In 2007 he beat Yordan Frometa and Roniel Iglesias at the national championships. Later that year Ugás won the PanAm Games in Rio beating Darley Perez and Everton Lopes. Cuba didn't participate in the World Championships in Chicago.

In 2008 he defended the national championships against old foe Luis Franco and won his Olympic qualifier. In Beijing he was upset in the semifinal by Frenchman Daouda Sow.

In 2009 he went up to Junior Welter beating Roniel Iglesias in the national final.

In March 2010, Ugas defected to the USA in the hope of beginning a professional career.

Ugás moved to North Bergen, New Jersey in 2012.[2]

Olympic Games

World Championships

World Cup

Cuban National Championship

References

  1. ↑ http://rusboxing.ru/news.php?readmore=223
  2. ↑ Hague, Jim. "Cuban refugee boxer Ugas meets hero MenendezNorth Bergen resident gets chance to talk with fellow Cuban and U.S. Senator Menendez", Hudson Reporter, August 11, 2013. Accessed January 1, 2015. "'In order to become a world champion, it’s something I had to do,' said the 27-year-old Ugas, who has called North Bergen his home for the last year."

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