Jair Jimenez: The Resilient Colombian Boxing Veteran
Jair Jiménez is a Colombian professional flyweight boxer from Montería. BoxerList lists his birth date as March 24, 1979; BoxRec also identifies Montería as his hometown. BoxerList profile · BoxRec profile.
The World Boxing Association’s March 2004 flyweight ratings placed Jiménez 15th. The archived April ratings listed him 14th, and the June archive listed him 15th. WBA March 2004 ratings · April archive · June archive.
Jiménez won the WBC Continental Americas flyweight title by defeating William De Sousa in Montería on July 4, 2003, according to the bout record. On August 24, 2005, he challenged then-champion Vic Darchinyan for the IBF and IBO flyweight titles in Sydney. Darchinyan retained both with a fifth-round technical knockout at 2:23. Bout listing · BoxRec bout record · Contemporary report from Caracol Radio.
Regional wins and international opposition
Jiménez’s early record includes a February 2000 stoppage victory over José Antonio López Bueno in León, Spain. He also defeated Franklin Terán and Ilido Julio in Colombia in 2001. Those results show that his activity already extended beyond a single local circuit before his later championship opportunities.
In May 2002, he met Adonis Rivas in Managua for the interim WBO flyweight title and lost by majority decision. He subsequently defeated Juan Alfonso Keb Baas by unanimous decision in Kissimmee in April 2003, then added the Continental Americas title victory over De Sousa. The sequence places the regional belt within a period of competition in several countries.
His later opponents included Cecilio Santos, Giovani Segura and Rayonta Whitfield after the Darchinyan challenge. Taken together, those names give context to a career that included regional success and difficult assignments abroad. The rankings document his place in the flyweight picture during 2004, while the individual bout records establish the separate outcomes of his title attempts.
Sources
Career records and reporting: boxrec.com.
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
