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Former IBF Super Bantamweight world champion Jhonatan Romero (29-1, 15 KO´s) entered the America´s Continental Championships in Honduras and surprisingly lost to Brazilian Wanderson Oliveira by a 5-0 decision (27-30, 28-29, 28-29, 28-29, 27-30).

If Romero had beaten Brazilian Oliveira he would have faced Cubas 3-time Amateur World Champion and 2-time Olympic bronze medallist Lazaro Alvarez. With the loss Romero, a 2008 Olympian, failed to qualify for the Hamburg World Championships in Aug/Sep.

Romero had earlier this year joined Colombian WSB team Colombia Heroicos where he beat another professional boxer, Mexican Guadalupe Acosta.

Other high profile losses for professional boxers against "amateurs" since AIBA changed the rules last year allowing pros to compete in AOB boxing include Amnat Ruenroeng vs and Sofiane Oumiha, Hassan Ndam Njikam vs Michel Borges and Mathieu Bauderlique vs Julio Cesar La Cruz at the Olympics and some 20 pros of varied quality who failed to even qualify for the Olympics.

Also in WSB and APB plenty of traditional pros have lost against Elite amateurs and Chinas experiment of matching 8 pro boxers against 8 APB boxers (who were still "amateur") ended with the APB boxers winning all 8 bouts. In the main event then APB world champion Lu Bin easily beat then WBC No 3 and former WBC world Champ Xiong Zhao Zhong by unan decision.

I guess the prediction of a slaughter if facing a pro with a top amateur was somewhat inaccurate.

APB....Aiba Pro Boxing...

Wanderson is the 3rd best ranked in Brazilian amateur boxing rankings (60kg) he'll face Lazaro Estrada, a very tough opponent, sure a great match but I doubt if he wins.

http://www.cbboxe.com.br/sitenovo/RankingMasculinoElite

Other top Brazilian boxers have also qualified to the quarter finals. Jonathan Soares (1st in 64kg of Brazil) and Juan Nogueira (2nd in 91kg of Brazil)

https://mma4ever.com.br/boxe/wanderson- ... l-de-boxe/

The amateurs hold some immensely talented fighters. That's why it's so crazy that Usyk was beating the super heavyweights in WSB, and people think AJ would give him problems?

Mexi-Box wrote:The amateurs hold some immensely talented fighters. That's why it's so crazy that Usyk was beating the super heavyweights in WSB, and people think AJ would give him problems?

AJ wont just give him problems...he'll dominate the much smaller cruiserweight!!

Best Coast wrote:

Mexi-Box wrote:The amateurs hold some immensely talented fighters. That's why it's so crazy that Usyk was beating the super heavyweights in WSB, and people think AJ would give him problems?

AJ wont just give him problems...he'll dominate the much smaller cruiserweight!!

Good luck landing on Usyk.

Mexi-Box wrote:

Best Coast wrote:

Mexi-Box wrote:The amateurs hold some immensely talented fighters. That's why it's so crazy that Usyk was beating the super heavyweights in WSB, and people think AJ would give him problems?

AJ wont just give him problems...he'll dominate the much smaller cruiserweight!!

Good luck landing on Usyk.

Usyk will need more than luck...

Former pro World champion Jhonatan "Momo" Romero continues to mix between pro, wsb and "amateur" bouts. Yesterday, he lost a clear 5-0 decision against 3-time amateur World champion Lazaro Alvarez, Cuba in the semifinal of the Pan Am Games qualifier in Nicaragua. Romero previously won two bouts (without any slaughter though) and has qualified for the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru in July/August.

As a pro, Romero is 31-1 and had two bouts in Colombia last year, winning both by TKO.