Daniel Ponce de León
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| Nickname(s) | El León ("The Lion") | ||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 70 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Mexican | ||||||||||||
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July 27, 1980 Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 52 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 45 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 35 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 7 | ||||||||||||
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Daniel Ponce de León (born July 27, 1980) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBO super bantamweight title from 2005 and 2008, and the WBC featherweight title from 2012 to 2013. As an amateur, de León won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games, and was a member of the 2000 Mexican Olympic team in the featherweight division.
Daniel is a Tarahumara Amerindian, raised in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range. Out of five brothers he was the only one to survive, due to the harsh conditions and the poverty his tribe lived in.
Daniel was a Mexican National Amateur champion and a bronze medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games. Ponce de León would then go onto represent Mexico at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
On October 29, 2005 he defeated Sod Kokietgym by unanimous decision, handing Looknongyangtoy his first career loss. He has defended his WBO junior featherweight title eight times against Gerson Guerrero, Reynaldo Lopez, Sod Kokietgym twice, Al Seeger, Gerry Peñalosa, Rey Bautista and Eduardo Escobedo. Ponce de León's first loss was a unanimous decision loss to Celestino Caballero on February 17, 2005.
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