Éverton Lopes

Brazilian boxer

Éverton Lopes

Personal information

Full name

Éverton dos Santos Lopes

Born

August 8, 1988 (1988-08-08) (age 35)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Sport

Boxing

Medal record

Men's amateur boxing

Representing Brazil
World Amateur Championships
	2011 Baku	Light welterweight
	2013 Almaty	Light welterweight
Pan American Games
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Lightweight
	2011 Guadalajara	Light welterweight
South American Games
	2006 Buenos Aires	Lightweight
	2010 Medellín	Lightweight

Éverton dos Santos Lopes (born August 8, 1988 in Salvador, Bahia) is a Brazilian professional boxer best known for his sensational 2011 World title win when he was still an amateur. Lopes is also a two-time Olympian, two-time Pan American Games medalist (silver in 2007 and bronze in 2011) and 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships bronze medalist.

Career

At the 2006 South American Games the 18-year-old Lopes lost the final to Darley Perez. He won the Pan American Junior Championships but lost the quarterfinal at the World Junior Championships 2006 to eventual winner Roniel Iglesias, 24:39.^[1] In the final of the 2007 Senior Pan American Games he lost to Cuban world champion Yordenis Ugás.^[2]

In 2007, he had two professional MMA fights in Brazil, losing to Alexandre Aranha by Submission and defeating Edmilson Domingos.

He won the 2008 Dominican tournament "Copa Independencia" vs. local Jonathan Batista who had beaten him in the final the year before.^[3] At the first Olympic qualifier he lost again to Ugas, at the second he beat fighters like Francisco Vargas to qualify for Beijing. There, fighting at lightweight, he was upset by little-known Asylbek Talasbaev 7:9.^[4]

After this he moved up to light welterweight.

At his 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships win he beat Ukrainian Denys Berinchyk in the final by a score of 26 - 23.

At the 2012 Olympics he ran right into Cuban Roniel Iglesias and lost 15:18.

Lopes has also competed in the sport of MMA, going 1-1.^[5]

Professional boxing record

6 Wins (2 knockouts, 4 decisions), 0 Losses, 0 Draws^[6]
Res.	Record	Opponent	Type	Rd., Time	Date	Location	Notes
Win	6–0	Eduardo Rafael Reyes	SD	6	2017-09-30	House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts
Win	5–0	Daniel Bastien	KO	2 (4), 1:04	2017-09-01	Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California
Win	4–0	Omar Tienda	MD	8	2015-09-04	Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California
Win	3–0	Marcelo Ezequiel Mesa	UD	6	2015-06-06	Arena Santos, Santos, São Paulo
Win	2–0	Robert Alexander Seyam	KO	1 (6), 1:35	2015-04-02	Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California	Professional boxing debut at Super Lightweight.
Win	1–0	Evan Woolsey	UD	6	2015-02-27	Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Indio, California	Professional boxing debut at Lightweight.

References

^ "PanamericanJuniorChampionships2006". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^ "Panamerican Games 2007". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^ "IndependenceCup2008". www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^ "Éverton Lopes Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^ Sherdog.com. "Everton Lopes MMA Stats, Pictures, News, Videos, Biography - Sherdog.com". Sherdog. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
^ Everton Lopes. Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2017-11-04.