Daniel Sarmiento
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Pablo Daniel Sarmiento is an Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 professional boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 in the Light Welterweight
Light welterweight
-Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...

 division and is the former IBO Light Welterweight Champion. He's also the brother of boxing trainer Gabriel Sarmiento.

Pro career

In March 1997, Sarmiento won the WBO Latino
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...

 Super Featherweight
Super Featherweight
Super featherweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 130 pounds or 59 kilograms....

 Championship by beating Andre Nicola, at the time Nicola had a record of 14-1.

IBO Light Welterweight Championship

On July 14, 2001 he won his first world title by knocking out the IBO Light Welterweight Champion Billy Schwer
Billy Schwer
William Schwer , more commonly known as Billy Schwer, is a former professional boxer from Luton in Bedfordshire, England....

 in Wembley, London.

In his last fight Daniel lost to undefeated Mexican American
Mexican American
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 Jesse Vargas
Jesse Vargas
Jessie Vargas is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Vargas is trained by Robert Alcazar and is signed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s boxing company, Mayweather Promotions....

. The bout was the main event of FSN
Fox Sports Net
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's Fight Night Club.

See also

  • List of IBO world champions
  • Notable boxing families

External links

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