Yamaguchi Falcão Florentino

Yamaguchi Falcão Florentino (born 24 January 1988) is a Brazilian professional boxer who has held multiple regional titles in the middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight divisions. In his amateur years, he won silver at the 2011 Panamerican Games and a bronze at the 2012 Olympics at light heavyweight.

Early life Born in São Mateus, Espírito Santo, Falcão is the older brother of professional boxer Esquiva Falcão.

Amateur career At the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat two opponents at middleweight before losing 3:8 to eventual winner Abbos Atoev (UZB). At the 2010 South American Games he lost to Alex Theran but got a bronze anyway. Afterwards he moved up in weight. At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Amine Azzouzi and Carlos Gongora, then lost to Elshod Rasulov. In Guadalajara at the PanAms he beat two opponents then lost to Cuban favorite Julio César la Cruz.

At the Olympic qualifier, he beat three opponents, including Osmar Bravo who also qualified, then lost the final to American southpaw Marcus Browne. All three made the Olympics. At the 2012 Olympics, he controversially edged out Sumit Sangwan 15:14, then Meng Fanlong 17:17, on countback before besting Cuban world champion Julio César la Cruz 18:15. He was defeated in the semi-finals by the Russian favorite Egor Mekhontsev 23:11 and received the bronze medal.

Unlike what his name suggests, he is not of Japanese descent.

Professional career On October 2, it was revealed that Falcão became a professional, signing with Golden Boy Promotions. In his debut, he was disqualified alongside Martín Fidel Ríos after the second round. Both fighters traded a few punches after the round ended followed by Ríos spitting on Falcão. The call was seen as excessive by both fighters, whom wanted to keep fighting. However, Falcão won all of his subsequent 11 fights. In the tenth, against Jorge Daniel Caraballo, Falcão won the WBC Latino middleweight title.

In 2023, at the age of 35, he faced Cuban David Morrell, current super middleweight champion (up to 76.2 kg), in the dispute for the World Boxing Association (WBA) belt. He was selected at the last minute to replace the Ghanaian Sena Agbeko, who had documentation problems and was left out of the match. The Brazilian had less than two weeks to prepare for the fight, where he felt the lack of rhythm against his rival, ten years younger, and fell in the first round. He was attempting to become the seventh Brazilian to be world boxing champion, joining Éder Jofre, Miguel de Oliveira, Acelino Freitas, Valdemir Pereira, Rose Volantê and Patrick Teixeira.

Professional boxing record 30 Loss 25–3–1

UD 10 27 Sep 2025

29 Win 25–2–1

UD 8 12 Jul 2025

28 Loss 24–2–1

KO 1 (12), 22 Apr 2023

27 Win 24–1–1

TKO 7 (10), 11 Dec 2022

26 Win 23–1-1

UD 10 29 Oct 2022

25 Win 22–1–1

UD 8 17 Oct 2022

24 Win 21–1–1

UD 10 26 Mar 2022

23 Win 20–1–1

KO 2 (10), 19 Feb 2022

22 Win 19–1–1

UD 9 23 Oct 2021

21 Win 18–1–1

UD 10 21 Aug 2021

20 Win 17–1–1

TKO 1 (10), 24 Jul 2021

19 Draw 16–1–1

MD 10 5 Dec 2019

18 Loss 16–1

UD 10 2 May 2019

17 Win 16–0

UD 10 21 Jul 2018

16 Win 15–0

UD 8 31 Mar 2018

15 Win 14–0

TKO 4 (10), 12 Aug 2017

14 Win 13–0

UD 10 5 May 2017

13 Win 12–0

TKO 1 (10), 17 Dec 2016

12 Win 11–0

TKO 2 (10), 8 Jul 2016

11 Win 10–0

KO 2 (10), 4 Mar 2016

10 Win 9–0

RTD 8 (10), 14 Nov 2015

9 Win 8–0

UD 8 18 Sep 2015

8 Win 7–0

UD 10 6 Jun 2015

7 Win 6–0

UD 8 30 Apr 2015

6 Win 5–0

UD 6 2 Apr 2015

5 Win 4–0

KO 1 (6), 12 Mar 2015

4 Win 3–0

UD 8 15 Nov 2014

3 Win 2–0

TKO 3 (6), 12 Jul 2014

2 Win 1–0

UD 4 26 Apr 2014

1 NC 0–0

NC 3 (4), 25 Jan 2014