Eleider Alvarez

Name: Eleider Alvarez
Alias: Storm
Birth Name: Eleyder Alvarez Baytar
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthplace: Apartado, Colombia
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 183cm
Reach: 193cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Trainer: Marc Ramsay
Promoter: Yvon Michel (GYM)
Advisor: Al Haymon

Amateur Career

• 2002 World Junior Championships participant in Santiago de Cuba (67kg):
  • Lost to Nikolajs Grisunins (Latvia) 5:14
• 2006 Central American & Caribbean Games participant in Cartagena, Colombia (81kg):
  • Lost to Yusiel Napoles (Cuba) 9:13
• 2006 South American Games Gold medalist in Buenos Aires, Argentina (81kg):
  • Defeated Wualfredo Rivero (Venezuela) 6:5
  • Defeated Hamilton Ventura (Brazil) 17:16
• 2007 1st Pan American Qualifier Silver medalist in Barquisimeto, Venezuela (81kg):
  • Defeated Shawn Cox (Barbados) RSC 3
  • Defeated Wualfredo Rivero (Venezuela) 19:17
  • Lost to Yusiel Napoles (Cuba) 11:17
• 2007 Pan American Games Gold medalist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (81kg):
  • Defeated Wualfredo Rivero (Venezuela) 13:4
  • Defeated Julio Castillo (Ecuador) 10:8
  • Defeated Yusiel Napoles (Cuba) KO 3
• 2007 World Amateur Championships participant in Chicago, United States (81kg):
  • Defeated Mehdi Ghorbani (Iran) 25:18
  • Lost to Ramadan Yasser Abdelghaffar (Egypt) KO 4
• 2008 1st America's Olympic Qualifier participant in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (81kg):.
  • Lost to Julio Cesar La Cruz (Cuba) 0:9
• 2008 2nd America's Olympic Qualifier Gold medalist in Guatemala City (81kg):
  • Defeated Julio Cesar La Cruz (Cuba) +8:8
  • Defeated Julio Castillo (Ecuador) 4:0
  • Defeated Azea Augustama (Haiti) 8:3
  • Defeated Julius Jackson (Virgin Islands) 5:0
• 2008 Pan American Championships Gold medalist in Cuenca, Ecuador (81kg):
  • Defeated Julio Cesar La Cruz (Cuba) 10:9
• 2008 Summer Olympic Games participant in Beijing, China (81kg)
  • 1st round bye
  • Lost to Tony Jeffries (Great Britain) 5:5+

Regional & Minor Titles

• WBO NABO light heavyweight title
• WBA NABA light heavyweight title
• WBC Silver light heavyweight title
• IBA World light heavyweight title

Career Factoids

• Has a record of 1-1-0 (1 KO’s) in world championship bouts.
• Has a record of 3-1-0 (2 KO’s) against former or current world champions.
  • Won against Lucian Bute, Jean Pascal & Sergey Kovalev.
  • Lost against Sergey Kovalev.

Preceded by: Sergey Kovalev

WBO Light Heavyweight Champion 2018 Aug 4 – 2019 Feb 2

Succeeded by: Sergey Kovalev