Félix Machado (born August 22, 1972 in Guyana) is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...

featherweight Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this ...

boxer. He currently resides in Bolívar,

. He is a former IBF

super flyweight Super flyweight, also referred to as junior bantamweight, is a boxing weight classes, weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . History The first title match in this division was in 1980, when the World Boxing Council respond ...

champion, defeating

Julio Gamboa Julio Gamboa (born December 15, 1971 in Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan lightweight boxer. He currently resides in León, Nicaragua. See also *List of IBF world champions This is a list of IBF world champions, showing every world champion certif ...

on July 22, 2000 for the vacant title. Machado successfully defended the title three times before losing to

Luis Alberto Pérez Luís Alberto Pérez (born April 6, 1978) is a Nicaraguan former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2014. He is a former two weight world champion, having held the IBF super flyweight title from 2003 to 2006, and the IBF bantamweight ...

by a

split decision A split decision (SD) is a winning criterion in boxing, most commonly in full-contact combat sports, in which two of the three judges score one particular competitor as the winner, while the third judge scores for the other competitor. A split de ...

on January 4, 2003.Edgard Rodríguez Centeno Un día perfecto - 2006 Page 160 "Luis Pérez tiene en su historial una corona mundial de boxeo, se mueve en un Mustang deportivo de seis cilindros, ... del 2003 en Washington, Estados Unidos, tras vencer al venezolano Félix Machado mediante una decisión unánime."

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