Pablo Romero

Name: Pablo Romero
Amateur Boxer: Record

Pablo Romero Hernandez is a former Cuban amateur boxer best known for winning the light-heavyweight gold medal at the World Championships in 1982 and 1986, and taking silver in 1989.

Career

• At the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships he won his first title.
• He won the PanAm Games 1983 in Caracas beating Evander Holyfield in the finals.
• At the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships he once again finished first.
• He won the PanAm Games in 1987 in Indianiapolis.
• Cuba boycotted the Olympics in 1984 and 1988, so Romero never boxed as an Olympian.
• At the 1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships he lost to Olympic middleweight Gold medalist Henry Maske and settled for silver.

World amateur championships results

1982 (as a Light heavyweight)

• Defeated Danny Lindstroem (Canada) 5-0 (quarterfinal)
• Defeated Valeri Shin (Soviet Union) 4-1
• Defeated Paweł Skrzecz (Poland) 5-0

1986 (as a Light heavyweight)

• Defeated Rene Suetovius (East Germany) 3-2
• Defeated John Beckles (England) 5-0
• Defeated Damir Skaro (Yugoslavia) 4-1
• Defeated Loren Ross (United States) 4-1

1989 (as a Light heavyweight)

• Defeated John Pettersson (Sweden) TKO 1 (retired)
• Defeated Meldon Orr (Australia) RSC 3
• Defeated Sandro Hranek (Hungary) TKO 1 (retired)
• Lost to Henry Maske (East Germany) 11-18 (final)