Angel Espinosa

Ángel Espinosa Capó (born October 2, 1966) is a former Cuban amateur boxer best known to dominate the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and capturing the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1983 the hard-hitting southpaw won the junior world championships at junior welterweight by knocking out Meldrick Taylor in round 2. Cuba boycotted the 1984 Olympic Games. He became 1986 world champion at junior middleweight. Espinosa then added the Panamerican title 1987 at middleweight. Cuba boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics too, Henry Maske whom Espinosa had defeated three times won the gold medal. At the 1989 world championships he...