Jorge linares boxer biography

Jorge Luis Linares Palencia is a Venezuelan professional boxer who has held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the WBC featherweight title from 2007 to 2008, the WBA super featherweight title (2008-2009), and the WBA, WBC, and Ring magazine lightweight titles between 2014 and 2018.

As of May 2021, he has 47 wins and 5 losses out of 52 fights.

Linares was born in Barinas, Venezuela on August 22, 1985.

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He compiled an 89-5 record as an amateur, winning several national junior championships in Venezuela. 

Jorge Linares' Career 

Linares had his first fight at the age of 17 at featherweight against Kyong Soo Chung in Osaka on December 15, 2002. He won the via KO at 0:45 of round 1. He went undefeated for the next six matches before finally getting his first title fight against Hugo Rafael Soto on Jan 31, 2004.

Linares then defeated the 36-year-old Soto with a unanimous decision and won the vacant WBA Fedelatin super banta Jorge Linares - Wikipedia DYRU