Demetrio Ceballos: Boxing Career and Key Results

Panamanian-born boxer Demetrio Ceballos competed professionally from 1991 to 2003 and built a career that included bouts for major titles and matchups with Shane Mosley and Miguel Cotto. The recorded results show a fighter who moved from regional championship success to challenging established and rising names in the lightweight and light-welterweight divisions.

Regional titles and a world-title challenge

Ceballos won the NABO lightweight title in 1997, stopping Oscar Natalio Lopez in May and Juan Angel Macias in August. BoxRec’s title-fight history lists those defenses and also records his Panamanian and Latin American title wins. These results established Ceballos as a contender before his most prominent title opportunity.

On February 6, 1998, Ceballos challenged Shane Mosley for the IBF lightweight championship at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Mosley retained his title by technical knockout at 2:34 of the eighth round. The bout record notes that Ceballos was knocked down in the fourth and again in the eighth. BoxRec lists a second world-title challenge against Randall Bailey among Ceballos’ career milestones.

A final bout against Miguel Cotto

Ceballos’ final recorded professional bout came on September 13, 2003, against Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Cotto won by technical knockout in the seventh round. The result was an early step in Cotto’s rise through the light-welterweight division, while it marked the end of Ceballos’ professional career. The BoxRec record lists his professional span as 1991–2003 and identifies the Mosley and Cotto contests among its most notable entries.

Those headline bouts do not capture every part of Ceballos’ record, which also includes regional championship wins and defenses. They do, however, document the level of opposition he faced across a career that connected title contention in the 1990s with one of boxing’s major prospects of the early 2000s.

Career Milestones

Ceballos’s professional results place his career within the lightweight and junior-welterweight scene. The opponent and date attached to each bout provide the historical context for the overall record.

Sources

BoxRec; BoxRec: Shane Mosley vs. Demetrio Ceballos.

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