Aarón Alameda López (born 18 August 1993) is a Mexican

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who challenged for the WBC

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title in 2020.

Early life

Born into a family of boxers in Nogales,

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, Alameda naturally followed them to the gym and began boxing at the age of 13. In his first appearance at the Mexican National Olympics in 2009, he won a gold medal by defeating

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, the nephew of legendary world champion

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, in the finals. The Mexican would get his revenge three years later, defeating Alameda in the same event for the gold. Alameda won gold medals at a total of three National Olympics as well as the 2013 National Championships.

Professional career

Alameda made his professional debut on 5 April 2014, defeating José Luis Leal by third-round

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(TKO) in Magdalena,

. He ended the year with his sixth straight stoppage victory, a first-round

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(KO) of Iván Vázquez in

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. After six more wins in 2015, he knocked out

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native Andre Wilson on 19 January 2016 at the

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, his first fight outside of his native Mexico. With a record of 23–0, he received his first title shot on 8 December 2018, defeating Venezuelan veteran Breilor Terán for the WBC FECARBOX interim

title on the main event of a

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''Sábados de Box'' card in his hometown of Nogales. He fought only once in 2019, a third-round KO of

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Jordan Escobar in April. He was scheduled to fight Luis Nery in a

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-televised WBC super bantamweight title eliminator in March 2020, but the show was cancelled due to the

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. Instead, he faced him six months later, on 26 September, for the vacant WBC super bantamweight title after

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was stripped of his belt. After twelve rounds the judges handed Nery a

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(UD) victory with scores of 110–118, 112–116 and 113–115.

Professional boxing record

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alameda, Aaron Living people 1993 births Mexican male boxers Super-bantamweight boxers Southpaw boxers Boxers from Sonora Sportspeople from Nogales, Sonora 21st-century Mexican sportsmen