Yoel Finol

Yoel Segundo Finol Rivas (born 21 September 1996) is a Venezuelan professional boxer. As an amateur he was awarded the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics after the original silver medalist, Mikhail Aloyan, was disqualified following a failed drugs test.

Amateur career Olympic results Rio 2016 Round of 32: Defeated Leonel de los Santos (Dominican Republic) 3–0 Round of 16: Defeated Muhammad Ali (Great Britain) 3–0 Quarter-finals: Defeated Mohamed Flissi (Algeria) 3–0 Semi-finals: Defeated by Shakhobidin Zoirov (Uzbekistan) 3–0

Tokyo 2020 Round of 32: Defeated by Ryomei Tanaka (Japan) 5–0

Pan American Games result Toronto 2015 Preliminaries: Defeated PG Tondo (Canada) 3–0 Quarter-finals: Defeated Yuberjen Martínez (Colombia) 3–0 Semi-finals: Defeated by Joahnys Argilagos (Cuba) 2–1

Professional career Finol made his professional debut on 6 July 2019 against Jeyson Cervantes. Finol knocked his Colombian opponent down twice en route to a fourth-round technical knockout victory.

On 19 December 2019, Finol fought for a second time as a professional against Carmelo Marmol. Finol was taken the distance as he won via wide unanimous decision after winning every round on each of the three scorecards. Almost a year after his last fight, Finol returned to the ring against Javier Martinez on 17 December 2020. Finol won a comfortable unanimous decision after dominating his Colombian opponent throughout the bout.

Personal life Finol's elder sister Carolina was married to, and later murdered by former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight world champion Edwin Valero.

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