Carvalho, Mike

Mike Carvalho was born on October 28, 1983 in the city of Belen, State of Para . He grew up in a boxing family, in particular, his uncle Dalgiriu was once a professional. He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of eleven, at the age of fifteen he spent his first fight at an amateur level.

He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in the 2002 season, when he entered the main squad of the Brazilian national team and played at the home South American games in Belem , where he became the silver medalist in the standings of the featherweight category - in the decisive final match he lost to Venezuelan Nehomaru Sermeno .

Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , but did not achieve much success here, in the first match of the 60 kg category with a score of 24:39 he lost to Puerto Rican Alex de Jesus .

In 2006, rising to the welterweight, he won the South American Games in Buenos Aires . A year later, he won a bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro - at the stage of the semi-finals he was stopped by the American Carl Dargan . A year later, he added to the track record a bronze medal received at the World War Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Being among the leaders of the Brazilian boxing team, Carvalho successfully qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - this time in the category up to 64 kg in the first match with a score of 11:15, he was defeated by the representative of Mauritius Richard Knee .

After the Beijing Olympics, Mike Carvalho remained in the Brazilian national team and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 2010, he defeated all rivals at the South American Games in Medellin , then rose to the welterweight and received bronze at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara .

In 2012, he went to represent the country at the Olympic Games in London - in the category of 69 kg in the first fight he was knocked out of the fight for the medal by American Errol Spence , the future world champion among professionals ^[1] .

He also planned to perform at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , which was already his fourth Olympics, but literally a month before the qualifying tournament he received a forearm injury and was forced to end his sports career. He currently works as a boxing trainer in his room in Belem ^[2] .

• Mike di Carvalho - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Mike Carvalho (port.) - profile on the website of the Brazilian Boxing Confederation