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Jorge Julio Rocha
Jorge Eliecer Julio Rocha is a former Colombian bantamweight boxer best known to win thw WBA and later the WBO title as a pro.
Ameteur
At the 1988 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Bantamweight category after losing to Aleksandar Hristov.
Pro
Julio turned pro in 1989 and won his first twenty-six fights, culminating on 9 October 1992 with a win over southpaw Eddie Cook for the WBA Bantamweight title. He lost the belt in a unanimous decision to Junior Jones in 1993 but was the first to knock Jones down.
He went on to capture ...
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