Juan Alejo: Boxing Career and Major Results
Mexican boxer Juan “Pinky” Alejo won a national light-flyweight title and later challenged for the WBO junior-flyweight championship twice.
Mexican title and world-title fights
On August 20, 2014, Alejo stopped Jose Guadalupe Martinez in the 11th round to win Mexico’s light-flyweight title, according to The Freeman.
Alejo’s first world-title challenge came against Donnie Nietes on October 17, 2015. The WBO’s official results record a unanimous-decision win for Nietes, who retained his junior-flyweight title. In December 2017, Alejo fought Ángel Acosta for the vacant WBO junior-flyweight title. ESPN reported that Acosta stopped him in round 10.
BoxerList’s bout history lists Alejo’s latest recorded fight as a technical-knockout loss to Jose Andres Teran on March 17, 2023.
The twelve-round test against Nietes
The 2015 championship bout took place at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Alejo completed the twelve-round distance, but the judges clearly favored Nietes: Lou Moret scored it 120–108, while Pat Russell and Marshall Walker each returned 119–109. Those scores make the nature of the defeat clear without diminishing the significance of reaching a world-title contest.
Between championship opportunities
Alejo returned to domestic competition after the Nietes fight. In 2016, he defeated Ivan Rodriguez, Luis Manuel Macias and Gabriel Ramirez Anaya in Monterrey. A stoppage victory over Genaro Rios followed in March 2017, before a draw with Luis Javier Cerrito that September.
The Acosta fight then offered a different opportunity: the WBO belt was vacant, whereas Nietes had entered their meeting as champion. Alejo did not capture the title in either contest, but the two assignments remain distinct milestones in his career. His later record included bouts against Jonathan Gonzalez, Armando Torres and Angel Ayala Lardizabal.
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