Celestino Caballero

Infobox_Boxer


name = Celestino Caballero
realname = Celestino Caballero
nickname = Pelenchín
weight = Super bantamweight
height = 5 ft. 11 in. (180 cm.)
nationality = flagicon|PAN Panamanian
birth_date = Birth date and age|1976|6|21|mf=y
death_date =
birth_place = Colón, Panama
home = Colón, Panama
style = Orthodox
total = 32
wins = 30
KO = 21
losses = 2
draws = 0
no contests = 0

Celestino "Pelenchin" Caballero is a professional boxer from Panama and the current WBA super bantamweight champion. Besides being a boxer, Caballero is also a reggae singer.

Professional career

Early in his career, Caballero won five minor boxing championships: the Panamanian, WBA Fedecentro, WBA Fedelatin, WBO Latino, and NABA super bantamweight titles.

He had won the first four of his titles and had a record of 17-0 before losing by a third round knockout to José Rojas on May 16, 2003.cite web | author=Boxrec | title="Celestino Caballero" | work=Boxrec Fighter Page | url=http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=015122&cat=boxer| accessdate=26 January | accessyear=2008]

Seven months later, Caballero won the vacant NABA title by defeating Giovanni Andrade. The fight, which was held in Coconut Creek, Florida, was Caballero's first one outside of Panama. In his next fight, back in Panama, Caballero was knocked down in the tenth round and lost the title by unanimous decision to Ricardo Cordoba on May 25, 2004.

On February 17 2005, Caballero fought the then unbeaten and would-be world champion Daniel Ponce de León in Hollywood, California. Caballero, who was a heavy underdog, won the bout by unanimous decision.

On October 15, 2005, Caballero defeated Yober Ortega by unanimous decision for the WBA super bantamweight interim championship. He defended the title on February 4, 2006 against Roberto Bonilla. After knocking down Bonilla in the third and fifth rounds, Caballero won via TKO in the seventh.

Caballero fought against WBA world super-bantamweight champion Somsak Sithchatchawal in Sithchatchawal's native country of Thailand on October 4, 2006 in order to win the real WBA title. He won by TKO by knocking Sithchatchawal down three times in the third round—causing the referee to stop the bout. Caballero has defended the title five times with the last one being that he knocked out Elvis Meija in one round.

See also

* List of current world boxing champions

* List of WBA world champions

External links

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References

Persondata
NAME=Caballero, Celestino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Pelenchín
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Panamanian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH=June 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH=Colón, Panama
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=