The Most Famous
BOXERS from Uruguay
This page contains a list of the greatest Uruguayan Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Uruguay. This makes Uruguay the birth place of the 61st most number of Boxers behind U.S. Virgin Islands, and Niger.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uruguayan Boxers of all time. This list of famous Uruguayan Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Washington Rodríguez (1944 - 2014)
With an HPI of 53.76, Washington Rodríguez is the most famous Uruguayan Boxer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Washington Rodríguez Medina (April 6, 1944 – 31 December 2014) was a Uruguayan boxer, who won a bronze medal in the bantamweight category (– 54 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Earlier in 1962 Rodríguez won a bantamweight bronze medal at the Latin American Games. After the 1964 Olympics he turned professional, and retired in 1969 with a record of five wins (four by knockout) and one loss. He then worked at the National Bank of Uruguay.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Uruguayan boxers born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Uruguayan boxers include Washington Rodríguez.
