Thursday 26 May 2011

Leroy Estrada

After looking at Robert Manzanarez recently it seems only fair to look at another incredibly young fighter, this time Leroy Estrada. Estrada is another of the really young fighters aged just 16 and is fighting out of his native Panama and currently competes in and around the Minimumweight division.

Born in La Chorrera in the south of Panama not much is currently known about the youngsters childhood other than the fact he was born June 16th 1994 with the full name of Omar Leroy Estrada Avila. As Panama is a country with Spanish naming traditions we can assume his fathers surname to be Estrada and his mothers to to be Avila, though why “Omar” was dropped I'm not sure.

At the moment it seems little is known of his amateur credentials though he would debut as a professional on a Septetember 2010 card set up by Panama's “Premium Boxing Promotions” (which is apparently run by Hector Villarreal, though details are difficult to come by and mostly in Spanish). On that card, which was free admission apparently, Leroy faced fellow debutant Davis Reyes. Estrada would score 2 knockdowns en-route to a 40-34 decision over 4 rounds.

Estrada would return to the ring in November and December of 2010 to add two more wins to his record stopping Jose Angel Montilla (KO3) and out pointing Guatemalan Julio Canastuj (UD4) to end the year 3-0 (1). Since then Estrada has fought just once, a rematch with Julio Canastuj which again saw Estrada winning the decision (UD6) to move to 4-0 (1).

On this coming Friday night Leroy Estrada gets his next bout when he faces Nicaraguan Pedro Reyes (0-1). This should be little more than an elementary win for the young Estrada against a man who hasn't fought in over 2 years though it's not a bad thing to see Estrada treat with kids gloves at this early stage. Hopefully Premium Boxing will bring along the youngster slowly and correctly rather than rush him and put him in bouts where he could end up being hurt.

Sadly I couldn't find much at all in regards to him, though Boxrec did have this image on their site:
http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/a/a1/Leroy_Estrada.001.jpg


Rankings:
Boxrec.com have Estrada at #78 in the world and at #5 in Panama


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