Miguel Santana

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Full Name	Miguel Santana
Occupation	Boxer
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1965(1965-02-09)
Age	59
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Miguel Santana Biography

Miguel Santana is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on February 9, 1965 in United States. Miguel Santana, a Puerto Rican former boxer, was born February 9, 1965. Santana was born in Canovanas (Puerto Rico).

Tele Once, a new channel in Puerto Rico, started broadcasting boxing fights every week shortly after its launch. Tele Once mainly focused their weekly boxing program on local fights. However, Santana was made well-known by viewers in his island with Ivonne class and Felo Ramirez. Tele Once’s boxing commentators regularly spoke about Santana. Santana won three fights that year before meeting Terrence Ali on September 27, 1986. This was part of the program in which Lloyd Honeyghan defeated Donald Curry in Atlantic City, New Jersey. WAPA-TV, one of Tele Once’s major rivals, televised the bout to Puerto Rico. Santana entered that ring undefeated after 19 bouts with 11 knockout victories. Santana lost in a 12-round unanimous decision to the Guyanan for the vacant regional USBA Lightweight title. Alli was hurt in the final round. He returned to Atlantic City on December 19 with a sixth-round knockout victory over Felix Gonzalez.

Santana went on boxing until 1998, but he was largely reduced to a journeyman boxer (that is, a boxer who usually loses to his opponents) and he lost 16 of his next 21 bouts before retiring for good. Among the fighters he lost to during that phase of his career were Todd Foster, Santos Cardona, Glenwood Brown, Willy Wise (who would go on to beat Chávez and lose to the Mexican fighter in a rematch) Ray Oliveira and, in Santana’s last fight, Wilfredo Negron. Santana retired with 25 wins, 20 losses and 2 draws, 14 of his wins coming by way of knockout.

In June 2006, the IBF announced that they would take the unprecedented move of making Santana a world champion by recognizing him as IBF world Lightweight champion in 1988. Although his loss to Haugen stood, the IBF announced it would include Santana in its list of world boxing champions and send him an IBF world title belt. The next day, however, Miryam Muhammad, IBF president, said that the IBF had changed their mind, and Santana would not be presented with a title belt, being honored at a lunch instead. However, Muhammad also said she is studying whether to award Santana the belt or not. Should the IBF recognize Santana as a past champion, Santana would become the fighter who waited the longest in history to find out he had become a world champion after his title fight was over, as it would come about 18 years after Santana’s championship bout with Haugen.

Santana won his national title three times, and he also won one more fight before facing Orlando Romero in Miami Beach, December 3, 1985. He defeated the Peruvian boxer with a fourth-round knockout.

Miguel Santana Net Worth

Miguel Santana is one of the richest Boxer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Miguel Santana 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Santana made the decision to become a professional in 1982. He debuted on March 21 by defeating Angel Lopez over six rounds. Santana defeated Ramon Canales in round four at San Juan on July 21 to score his first knockout. Santana defeated Joe Rivera in Bayamon on March 21, 1983. Rivera was knocked out by Santana in the fourth round. Half a century later, Rivera lost to Brian Mitchell in the fifteenth and twelveth rounds, respectively. Juan Martin Coggi knocked Rivera out in seven rounds.

Santana won five of his next fights and was awarded his first title on September 1, 1984. Santana defeated Javier Fragoso (a veteran fighter who had fought Julio Cesar Chavez) by knockout in Carolina to win Puerto Rican’s national title. Santana, despite being undefeated prior to his fight against Fragoso was still a relatively unknown fighter who became a celebrity in Puerto Rico after he won the national title.

On July 25, 1987, Santana faced Pernell Whitaker, who defeated Santana by a sixth round knockout for the NABF and USBA lightweight titles in Norfolk, Virginia. After losing a ten round decision to Terrence Alli in a rematch, Santana got a chance to challenge IBF world Lightweight champion Greg Haugen for the world title on April 11, 1988.

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Miguel Ranked on the list of most popular Boxer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Miguel Santana celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.