Argenis Casimiro Núñez (born December 30,úñ 1981) is a Dominican amateur boxer best known for winning two medals at the Pan Am Games.

Career

In 2003 at the Pan Am Games he beat Washington Silva but lost to Cuban southpaw Yoan Pablo Hernández in the light-heavyweight category and won bronze.

Argenis Casimiro Núñez

In 2005 at the PanAm Championships (not the Pan Am Games) he lost to Yusiel Napoles.

Argenis Casimiro Núñez

He managed to lose weight and drop down to middleweight afterwards. At the Central American Games in 2006 he lost in the first round to eventual winner Yordanis Despaigne. At the Pan Am Games 2007 he won silver at middleweight, losing to Emilio Correa.

Argenis Casimiro Núñez

At the World Championships 2007 he KOD Elshod Rasulov and beat two other fighters but did not win a medal because he lost to Ukrainian Sergiy Derevyanchenko. However, he qualified for the 2008 Olympics, where he lost to Alfonso Blanco.

External links

PanAm 2003 results

PanAm 2007 results

World Championships 2007

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Living people

1981 births

Middleweight boxers

Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games

Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games

Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Olympic boxers for the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic male boxers

Pan American Games silver medalists for the Dominican Republic

Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Dominican Republic

Pan American Games medalists in boxing

Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games