Yordenis Ugas
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Yordenis Ugás Hernández (b. july 14 1986 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban amateur boxer. He won the lightweight 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships at age 19 following Mario Kindelan.
Her was junior(cadets) world champ in 2003 but lost 2004 to Amir Khan and twice to country man Luis Franco.
He became Panam Champion in 2005 but lost twice to Serik Sapiyev.
At the world championships he suffered two heavy knockdowns by Canadian southpaw Ibrahim Kamal in the third fight and was lucky to win the fight. Manilatimes writes:"But for two fleeting moments Thursday, unheralded Canadian lightweight Ibrahim Kamal showed the world that the Cubans, arguably the number-one force in amateur boxing, may have jaws of glass after all. The University of Toronto student knocked down Yordanis Ugas in the first and second rounds with two sledgehammer lefts to the side of the chin. But then the Canadian southpaw hurt one knee as he and Ugas wrestled each other to the floor on the third round, leaving him effectively fighting on one leg."
Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev In the final he outfought Roman Amanov from Azerbaidjan.
Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan." It describes him "a tall, bony lightweight with a deceptively languid fighting style"
