Pinyango, Bernardo

Bernardo Pinyango was born on February 9, 1960 in Caracas . He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of twelve, at first he trained with his own father, then he trained at one of the capital's boxing clubs. He achieved his first serious success in the ring in 1977, when he won a featherweight gold medal at the Central American Championship. A year later, he became the champion of Venezuela in the same weight category. In 1980, thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow - he managed to reach the finals in the lightest division, but lost 0-5 to Cuban Juan Hernandez Perez in the decisive match. Having received a silver Olympic medal, he decided to try himself among professionals and left the team. In total, he has 120 amateur fights in his track record, of which only 10 ended in defeat.

Pinyango made his professional debut in August 1981, in his first duel with compatriot Angel Torres, a draw was recorded, but a month later there was a rematch, and this time Pinyango won by TKO in the first round. Over the next five years, he spent many successful battles, almost always won, only in two cases having been defeated. In 1986, he got a chance to compete for the world bantamweight title according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) - he defeated the current American champion Gaby Canizales by unanimous decision.

Pinyango defended his champion title three times, after which in 1988 he climbed to the second lightest weight to compete with Dominican champion Julio Gervasio in this category. The fight lasted all twelve rounds, none of the rivals had a clear advantage, and two of the three judges gave the victory to the Venezuelan. Nevertheless, after this victory, Pinyango did not remain a champion for long, already at the very first defense he lost the title to the Mexican Juan Jose Estrada , also a separate decision. Having been defeated, Pinyango spent three more fights with little-known boxers, and at the end of 1990 decided to end his career as an athlete. In total, in professional boxing, Bernardo Pinyango spent 32 fights, of which 23 ended with victory (including 15 ahead of schedule), lost 5 times, in three cases a draw was recorded. After completing his career, he worked as a boxing trainer ^[1] .

• List of world boxing champions in several weight categories

• Bernardo Pinyango - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Bernardo Pinyango - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec