Omar Soto: Career Record and the Narvaez Name Confusion
Omar Soto and Omar Andres Narvaez are different professional boxers. The WBA profile used for Soto identifies Puerto Rico and lists a 15-15-1 record, while Narvaez is the Argentine Olympic representative and two-division WBO champion from Trelew. Their biographies and championships must be kept separate.
Career and championship record
The Soto ledger associated with the ring name “El Pastor” begins in August 2001. It includes two 2009 victories over Jhon Alberto Molina in Puerto Rico: a split decision in Moca in June and a majority decision in Ponce that December. Those entries document Soto’s own professional activity rather than an amateur career representing Argentina.
His international schedule included a 2010 contest against Ganigan Lopez in Mexico City for the vacant WBC Silver minimumweight title. Lopez won by unanimous decision. Soto also met Jesus Geles in Cartagena that October, losing a majority decision, and Ramon Garcia Hirales in Campeche in December, losing another points verdict.
Later appearances included Jonathan Gonzalez in San Juan in November 2014 and Carlos Narvaez in Aguada in June 2015, both recorded as decision defeats. A bout against an opponent named Narvaez does not make Soto the same person as Omar Andres Narvaez. Dates, locations and opponent names provide the more reliable way to distinguish their records.
Omar Andres Narvaez represented Argentina at the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 Olympics. He also earned a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships and silver at the 1999 edition. These amateur achievements belong to the Argentine fighter, alongside his 1999 Pan American Games gold.
Narvaez later held the WBO flyweight championship from 2002 to 2010 and the WBO super-flyweight championship from 2010 to 2014. Flyweight and super flyweight are different divisions from minimumweight. Reading the two careers separately preserves Soto’s documented professional contests without assigning him another boxer’s Olympic appearances, birthplace or world-title reigns.
Sources
Additional sources: https://boxerlist.com/en/boxer/omar-soto/70955; https://www.wbaboxing.com/wba-boxer-profile?id=1805
- BoxRec: Omar Andrés Narváez
- Olympedia: Omar Narváez
- WBA: Omar Soto boxer profile
