Yankiel Rivera

Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (born September 10, 1997) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is the only boxer in his country who qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Amateur career Rivera won bronze at the Pan American Youth Championships in Quito in 2014. He lost to Leandro Blanc in the quarter-finals of the 2016 continental Olympic qualification in Buenos Aires and competed at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, where he lost to the eventual runner-up Jasurbek Latipov in the preliminary round. At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla and also at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, he won a bronze medal in the flyweight division.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American-continental Olympic qualification tournament in Buenos Aires planned for May 2021 was canceled and a qualification based on the continental ranking was decided instead, which secured Rivera a starting place as number 3 in the ranking.

Professional career Yankiel Rivera was scheduled to face Angel Gonzalez in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 7, 2024. Rivera won the fight by TKO in the fourth round.

WBA interim flyweight championship Rivera faced Angelino Cordova for the WBA interim flyweight title at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, on August 23, 2025. The fight ended in a majority draw.

He got a second chance at the still vacant WBA interim flyweight title against Jonathan González at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 3, 2026. Rivera lost by unanimous decision.

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