WBO World Champion Moises Fuentes Dies on Thanksgiving Day From Brain Injury
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Cancun, Mexico (November 25th, 2022)– According to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, former World Boxing Organization World Minimumweight and Light Flyweight champion Moises Fuentes passed away on Thursday morning from a brain injury sustained in the ring, Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022, just over 12 months after getting knocked out in a final comeback attempt in October 2021 in the sixth round by 20-0 prospect David Cuellar Contreras at the Oasis Hotel Complex in Cancun, Mexico. Various sources had his age as between 35 and 37 years old.
Fuentes, 25-7-1 with 14 knockouts, Mexico City, Mexico, opened his career at 24-2-1 with 13 knockouts, before losing five of his last six pro bouts. After getting knocked out by Daigo Higa in a WBC World Flyweight title bout in February 2018, and then getting stopped in the fifth round in Las Vegas by former World Boxing Association World Minimumweight, Light Flyweight and Flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (who went on to win a world title at super flyweight), Fuentes retired from the ring.
More than three years later, as the Pandemic subsided, Fuentes attempted a final comeback in Cancun in October 2021 with Contreras in a World Boxing Council Silver Youth Super Flyweight title bout, Fuentes got knocked out at 2:11 of the sixth round and never recovered his health, undergoing going emergency surgery for a brain clot. Fuentes however never recovered and had ongoing health complications. Fuentes was a veteran of eight world title bouts.
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