Alfonso Pérez (boxer)
Alfonso Pérez is a retired boxer from Colombia, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1971 he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. He turned pro on April 6, 1973, and retired in 1981 after 40 bouts.
Perez had the ability of fighting as a lightweight or losing weight and competing as a featherweight, and he holds a win by knockout in three rounds over then-undefeated, future WBA world featherweight champion and hall of fame member Eusebio Pedroza.
Perez was national champion in Colombia both as a featherweight and as a lightweight, and also the WBC's Caribbean area lightweight champion.Below is the record of Alfonso Perez, a Colombian lightweight boxer who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics:
