Miguel Ángel González (boxer)
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González in 2014
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| Real name | Miguel Ángel González Dávila |
| Nickname(s) | El Mago;Santa Tokyo |
| Rated at |
Lightweight Light Welterweight Welterweight |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
| Reach | 1.73 m (68 in) |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Born |
15 November 1970 Colonia Roma, a district of Mexico City, Mexico |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 57 |
| Wins | 51 |
| Wins by KO | 40 |
| Losses | 5 |
| Draws | 1 |
| No contests | 0 |
Miguel Ángel González Dávila, also known as El Mago (born 15 November 1970), is a Mexican professional boxer who held the world lightweight title. He also competed as a junior welterweight and welterweight, and is currently rated as a junior middleweight.
González grew up in a middle-class family among the suburbs of Mexico City, Mexico. At the age of 15, he began his amateur boxing career under the tutelage of legendary Mexican trainer, Pancho Rosales.
En route to an amateur record of 63–3, Gonzalez defeated future World Boxing Council (WBC) junior lightweight titleholder Gabriel Ruelas in 1988 to earn a spot on Mexico's Olympic team as a featherweight. He lost his first match to local Lee Jae-Hyuk.
González turned pro at age 17 on 21 January 1989, and scored a fifth-round technical knockout over Isidro Pacheco in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
After fighting for nearly two years in Mexico, González moved to Japan in the late 1980s and lived there through most of 1991. While residing there, he floored all five of his opponents and was a neighbor of future world champions Yuri Arbachakov and Orzubek Nazarov (also lightweight title holder). It was there that González got his nickname "Santa Tokyo".
On 24 August 1992, González received his first world title shot when he faced Colombian puncher Wilfrido Rocha for the World Boxing Council lightweight title in Mexico City. In a sensational fight, González had his hands full with Rocha, who put the Mexican native on the canvas in the second round. González also had his nose bloodied by his game opponent, but managed to roar back in rounds four and five. González eventually cut Rocha and forced the referee to halt matters in the ninth.
Following nine successful title defenses across two-and-one-half years (Dec. 1992 – June '95), he was dominant at the start KOing contenders Leavander Johnson and Jean-Baptiste Mendy but lost his form and struggled later. Gonzalez won a hard-fought, and somewhat controversial, majority decision over Lamar Murphy on 19 August 1995, in Las Vegas.
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