Alexis Arguello
Boxer
Born on: April 19, 1952Died on: July 1, 2009
Aged: 57 years 73 days (686 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Nicaragua
Birth Sign: Aries
Andrés Alexis Argüello Bohórquez was a Nicaraguan professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 1995, and later became a politician.
He was a three-weight world champion, having held the WBA featherweight title from 1974 to 1976; the WBC super featherweight title from 1978 to 1980; and the WBC lightweight title from 1981 to 1982.
Additionally, he held the Ring magazine and lineal featherweight titles from 1975 to 1977; the Ring lightweight title from 1981 to 1982; and the lineal lightweight title in 1982.
In his later career, he challenged twice for light welterweight world titles, losing both times in famous fights against Aaron Pryor.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License