Luis Cox Coronado: Peru’s IBF Flyweight Title Challenger
Peruvian flyweight Luis Cox Coronado challenged Irene Pacheco for the vacant IBF flyweight title in 1999. The IBF flyweight title history lists the bout as the key world-title fight of his career.
Coronado made his professional debut on January 30, 1993. On April 10, 1999, he met Pacheco in Barranquilla for the vacant IBF flyweight championship; Pacheco won by ninth-round technical knockout. The World Boxing Association’s 2012 historical-day article refers to Coronado as a Peruvian who had sought an IBF world title and was defeated by Pacheco in 1999.
The BoxRec profile gives his birth name as Luis Alejandro Cox Coronado and identifies Lima, Peru, as his hometown and birthplace. BoxRec’s title history records the 1999 result as Pacheco’s ninth-round TKO win for the vacant title.
The regional career around the Pacheco fight
Coronado’s record includes several domestic wins before the world-title opportunity. In 1997, he defeated Eleodoro Urbina by decision and stopped Cesar Hernan Singo in Lima. He also traveled to Panama in January 1998 to face Evangelio Pérez for the WBA Fedelatin super-flyweight title, losing by fifth-round stoppage.
The Sport & Note record lists further wins over Jorge Montero and José Torres Peña before the Pacheco challenge. These entries place the Barranquilla bout within a career that involved both home competition and regional travel, rather than an isolated championship appearance.
After the world-title defeat, Coronado continued competing. His later listed activity includes bouts in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina, extending into 2010. The Pacheco contest remains the major world-title entry, but the surrounding record shows a longer professional schedule with wins, defeats and draws. That broader timeline helps distinguish his status as a Peruvian title challenger from a claim to a championship reign.
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